Is Bill Miller's BBQ?

[Moonpie]

I may be forced into going there.

 

[TreyG-20]

It is.

 

[toddnjoyce]

It’s barbecue. Not great bbq though. I usually get the two meat plate (brisket, sausage) with pintos, potato salad, and cole slaw when I’m forces to go.

Their slaw is vinegar based and the tater salad is more salad than tater. I hate the green beans w/tomatoes and the has browns.

I do half & half on the tea.

 

[TipBledsoe]

It is the last place I would go to for bbq

 

[kbaxter60]

I hate the green beans w/tomatoes

The wife loves them and I am not veggie fan, but like them, too.If she gets two sides, it is green beans and green beans.

I do half & half on the tea

It is the only way. And it is still often too sweet. I asked them once if they could do an Arnold Palmer? "Wut?"

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

I may be forced into going there.

Texas enjoys an embarrassment of good BBQ, especially in the central region.

I think you can use this as a teachable moment to the poor lost soul that thinks Bill Miller's is the place to go for BBQ.

 

[HKSig]

I've never eaten there, but I know someone who said it wasn't very good.

 

[Tnhawk]

Although there are 75 locations, none is close enough for me to find out if their BBQ is good.
From the comments here that may be a good thing.

 

[RickLovesBacon]

Their breakfast is ok, avoid the rest

 

[Fishkiller]

The FIL used to swear by it. Until he started to swear at it. When we would visit the outlaws is SA it was the place we had to go. Then they moved to The Big Town and it was not. I never really liked it. As the halibut boat captain used to say “It will make a turd”. Which is the best I can say.

 

[baboon]

My friend Leon took me there saying it was great. The best thing about it was while he was fiddle phucing around I watched the law sweep in and remove someone from their vehicle in what I could only guess was a DEA or task force drug apprehension. Leon missed it happing which was pretty funny, but not as fun as the shit I gave over the food.

 

[Texasgordo]

It was okay the one time I went there. They have onions with dill that are great to me.

 

[General Zod]

It was apparently good in the 70s...Now it's on par with Dickie's and other big chain, low quality BBQ joints. Eating there won't kill you, but...it won't be a meal that'll impress you.

 

[TreyG-20]

Bill Millers is Fast food. They don't cook in store and it's all trucked in from SA. It won't win any awards, but it will get you by in a pinch. I've had worse BBQ in Kansas City that was highly recommended.

 

[Iowashooter]

Who is Bill Miller?

 

[skfullgun]

It was where many of us AF reservists went for lunch on drill weekends.
Back in the 80’s and 90’s, it was good and fairly priced. The condiment bar feature pico, sliced onions in vinegar, pickles, and white and dark bread - all you care to eat.
I have not been there in over a decade.

 

[stuhoevel]

If I had a choice of bill miller's or no bbq, I'd pick no bbq. I don't understand san Antonio's obsession with it.

But I will say this, as low as I think about Bill Miller's, I did eat all the bbq. I can't say the same for blacks in New Braunfels. That's the only place I walked out and left bbq on the tray.

 

[Texasgordo]

can't say the same for blacks in New Braunfels.

 

[General Zod]

Who is Bill Miller?

Regional barbecue tycoon. Big in the 70s and 80s.

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

William T. "Bill" Miller and Ila Faye Miller co-founded a poultry and egg delivery business in 1950 from a $500 loan. The restaurant was officially founded in 1953 when they expanded the business into a fried chicken take-out restaurant. The menu eventually incorporated hamburgers, and then shifted into a barbecue restaurant. The second restaurant opened in February 1963.

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In the early 1950s, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q was one of the first to offer quality food-to-go in five minutes, something almost unheard of at the time. Its concept of serving barbecued meats and fresh pies and breads on a daily basis from a central commissary was unique to its industry. Miller designed the original barbecue pits he used in the 1950s and the large industrial sized ones used today, which can cook up to 2,500 pounds of brisket at one time in 18 to 20 hours.

 

[kbaxter60]

I had their brisket tacos a week ago. Very tasty. Plus, their peach cobbler is excellent.