Coming into this place, I had fairly high expectations. We were staying at the hotel next door, and several local hotel staff members recommended this restaurant, which immediately set a higher standard in my mind. When we arrived, however, there was only one car in the parking lot--and it was leaving. There were no customers inside the restaurant at all, which initially raised some concerns, but we decided to give it a chance anyway. We walked up to the counter, and the employee on duty greeted us and began assisting with our order. One person in our group was asking questions, and during that process, the employee repeatedly walked away toward the back of the kitchen while continuing to talk to us instead of staying present and focused on taking the order. This made the interaction feel disjointed and somewhat unprofessional. Eventually, he returned and began helping us more consistently, but the initial impression of the customer service was already not great. I ordered several items: smoked buffalo chicken wings with fries and blue cheese, fried okra, and a fish sandwich. This is where the experience took a turn--because while the service left something to be desired, most of the food was actually very good. The fries could have been slightly crispier, but they were well seasoned, lightly crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside, which still made them enjoyable. The smoked buffalo wings were very flavorful and well prepared, though they were on the smaller side. The fried okra stood out the most--it was perfectly crispy, well seasoned, and cooked to a great al dente texture. The fish sandwich was the one item that fell a bit short. I am not sure whether it was because I ate it later than the rest of the food or if it was simply undercooked, but it lacked the crispiness I was expecting. The seasoning and breading tasted good, but the texture just wasn't there. I also ordered a cookie, which unfortunately was extremely hard. That would be the one item I would not order again. Would I come back for the food? Yes--because overall, the food quality was significantly better than expected. Would I come back for the customer service? No. That disconnect is the main reason my rating for this restaurant is what it is. The food and the service are not operating at the same level, with one clearly outperforming the other. One thing I did notice was that once we mentioned we were staying at the hotel next door, the employee's attitude noticeably improved, as his wife apparently works there. While that was interesting, customer service should be consistent regardless of where guests are staying. If I ever return, I would want to visit during a much busier time to see how they operate under pressure and whether the food quality remains consistent. I would also likely try different menu items. Overall, I would recommend this place cautiously--for the food, or at least certain items--but with the understanding that the customer service may not meet the same standard. Hopefully, this was just an off day, but based on this visit, the service is not something I would confidently recommend. read more

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I was in Atlanta for work and all of us were starving, so we pulled off to give Bullpen a try. It's an unsuspecting, no frills joint where you order at the counter and seat yourself. Drinks are also self serve. The restaurant feels kind of dated and worn out, but the food was good so I'm happy to overlook that. We arrived in time to still cash in on the lunch specials which come with a side and a drink. My co-workers opted for their variety of sandwiches, but I was here for the ribs. I ordered the three rib combo which came with two sides, a cornbread and a drink. I went with the baked beans and collard greens as my sides, with a sweet tea because hey, when in Atlanta. The ribs were shockingly good. Big, meaty, well-seasoned and fall off the bone. The collard greens were fresh and delicious, and the beans were very flavorful. The BBQ sauce that was served with the ribs was delicious also, not too sweet. read more

Ordered a few items via uber eats. I didn't care for the rib tips. They tasted like they were boiled first. They were tough and lacked flavor. However, I enjoyed the ribs and the roasted chicken. I also tried a baked potato with pulled pork. It was huge and lasted me a couple days. I hope to go in-person and try the moonshine. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

Showed up to this BBQ place but knowing what to expect. The flavors were decent, but the portions were surprisingly skimpy. more bun and sides than actual barbecue. For a place that calls itself a BBQ restaurant, the lack of meat was a real bummer. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - BBQ sandwich and fries - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

Grabbed multiple lunches for everyone at work: each person was disappointed. Brisket (didn't taste fresh), ribs (dry), green beans (not seasoned), baked beans (lacks flavor). I would try another place if you'd prefer something with flavor and tenderness read more

We're staying Nextdoor at the hotel and whoops we shouldn't have walked over here cause now I'm not trying anywhere else haha some of the best brisket I've had in years. Corn bread was excellent. Their BBQ sauce was WILD! We both were slurping the sauce by the end (no shame). They have pick up orders so that's nice for bringing back to the room for snacks. Huge inside with good music playing - chill service at the counter cause they know they've got the good food read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - 1/3 lb Brisket Plate corn bread greens - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

Just ordered via Uber eats. Let me just say that those ribs are chef's kiss. And I wish I ordered extra, extra sauce because it is delicious. Don't have enough room to eat this huge bbq potato; but tasted it. It's is excellent been looking for a good bbq big potato for a long time. Found it! read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Loaded Baked Pulled Pork Potato - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

Staff was super nice but the bbq is so bad. Poor quality and no flavor. Went somewhere else to eat after.

I had a awful experience with this place. I ordered a delivery order and my order was placed on the floor of my hotel room without driver knocking on my door to place my food in my hand. Then my order was incorrect. I called restaurant to notify of my incorrect order the male hung up the phone on me. I will never go back here. And I will let everyone I know not to go there. read more

This place has been a great find for me. I recently started working at Georgia State. I had to find a place to go eat, I am looking to eat healthy as I can. They have these in wings that they smoke, they are great. I want back and ordered the beef brisket, then came back another time and ordered the sides. The ambiance was a great vibe. I love this place.. I have been 3 times in a month! I will continue!! read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

This establishment has gone down since the braves moved to CobbCounty. No ambience at all You should not be out if food choices if you are practically empty read more

I ordered the 3 ribs (1/4 lb) with brisket, double macaroni and cheese plus peach cobbler. The meats were decent. My order, however, was missing a macaroni and cheese. The cobbler looked disgusting. There was no crust and a few peaches. I expected more for $30. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Peach cobbler - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

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I ordered the 6 ribs, pull pork and smoked sausage link. The ribs and the pull pork tasted nothing like hickory. The best part of the meal was the sausage. Not very good and I will not order food from there again. read more

Wife and I came here around noon today (Tuesday Feb. 16 in the eternal year of our Covid 2021). Parking was easy as they have a large parking lot attached to the restaurant with at least 20 spaces. Only a few customers inside so we put our anti-covid-superpandemic-eradicater masks on and went straight up to the counter to order. Menu is typical BBQ joint, with full menu of goodies - pulled pork, brisket, chopped chicken, cole slaw, baked beans, etc. My wife ordered the spare rib plate with green beans and Brunswick stew, also comes with cornbread. Ribs were a little dry but tasty - they come without sauce, you add the sauce, the stew was excellent and the green beans are the flat kind, but had a nice smoky flavor to them, a little underseasoned but still good. Cornbread was sweet, and moist not dry (I had to use the word MOIST - say it with me..."moist"...see don't you feel better after saying MOIST more than once today? You're welcome). I had the chopped chicken plate with potato salad and coleslaw as my sides. Chopped chicken was a little underflavored and not enough sauce, so I added some of their sweet sauce later, so that turned out better. I like coleslaw on my BBQ samminch - yes I said samminch. SLAWBQ! The slaw was pretty good, a little more mayo and couple degrees colder would have been perfect but it was good. The only thing I didn't enjoy at first was the potato salad - I guess pandemics make people stop putting mustard in potato salad. I'm pretty picky about my tater-salad, and this was a letdown as it was probably made with mayo/sourcream/dill...not very southern (where's the MUSTARD?) so what I did was I went over to the sauce counter and got some of their "Carolina mustard" BBQ sauce and put that in the potato salad and Bingo it was better. For my drink I had the unsweet tea with lemonade because yeah, tea and BBQ. They do have beer by the bottle but I was driving and didn't want to get a DUI and miss any of the wonderful goings-on in the world right now (lawdy I might have missed something as spectacular as that last superbowl halftime show)! So if you are: 1. Looking for decent BBQ close to downtown 2. A BBQ place to "dine in" 3. A place to park at a BBQ joint without paying $20 to park 4. A no frills place where you won't get the evil-eye for eating without a mask on (yes masks are required to enter but you can take them off to eat, instead of eating by osmosis like many places expect you to lately) 5. Plenty of elbow room in the dining area 6. Good basic counter-service and fast food service ...then this is your joint. Definitely recommend and will be back, with mustard in hand. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Rib plate with Brunswick stew and green beans with cornbread - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

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The ribs were old, not fresh and a waste of money, The potato salad was good. The fish was good, but he forgot my french-fries, no brisket at 1 pm on a Saturday in Atlanta, I could not believe it, so I got chicken tenders, they were OK. The Brunswick stew was OK. The service was good, no one was there but me, it was clean no trash on the floors, good music playing. I love Ribs, yours was a 2 out of 10. read more

Delicious food and great service would highly recommend to stop and by and enjoy some wonderful food and calming atmosphere!!!

Food was fresh and hot. Service was great. Baked beans were very tasty. Ribs were falling off the bone.

Very Good like it muy Bueno en mi estadia en atlanta comi dos veces aqui very good the ribs nice

Went in on a Friday @ 6:30p. Ghost town. Got smoked wings. Mistake. Barely cooked & Salty. On a good note.. the Brunswick stew was on point, but lookout, it's spicy. 3rd star is for the cold beer I had while I waited for to-go.. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - the menu - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

I'll start by saying the guy that helped us was nice. No problem with the service really. Ambiance was bad. They look like they are working on it but the place was empty when we walked in, no music, no TV, just the sounds of a drill and hammer. Now... the food. The lemon pepper and BBQ wings were decent. They give you FULL size wings so careful ordering. The pulled pork was below average. The ribs were ok in taste but had a hard texture. Now... the Mac and cheese... was horrifying. It tasted like it was spoiled! It had a real spoiled cheese taste. I had hopes for this place but unfortunately, I picked the wrong place to experience ATL bbq. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

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Ribs were a-mazing!! Brisket was good. Pulled pork was kinda sweet, not a huge fan. Potato salad had sweet pickles, so kinda weird for me. Highly recommend this place for the ribs alone!! read more

Great nachos and pulled pork! I'm from NC and this pulled pork was really good and the baked beans are phenomenal!!! read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Pulled pork - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

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Never get the 50% more meat on brisket sandwich, the sandwich comes with overcooked dry meat I asked manager too add more meat which I paid for but, her reply was 6oz of meat per sandwich well my sandwich only had 8oz of meat which isn't 50% more meat well that should have been 12oz of meat but, he never backed down. I will never go back to that spot again. Fox brothers does not have to worry about bullpen because they suck! Bullpen should stay in the Bullpen as far as I'm concerned. read more

Ordered this on Uber eats and the food was disgusting. Don't waste your money. Don't eat here.

Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Looks good however...these plates didn't get eaten. Refund loading.... read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Chopped Chicken Plate, collards and Brunswick Stew. Ok - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

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Delicious huge ribs I truly enjoyed my experience here at Bullpen. I went in expecting a normal size rack of ribs and then boom I was shocked with how huge the bones were. Each one was full of tender rib meat and I topped it off with their tasty bbq sauce. Give them a try when your in the area they won't disappoint!! read more

the food was awful!!!!!!! I ordered the pull pork sandwich, Brunswick stew and a salad. I think they scrape the pot of grease and old meat from yester-year added some corn and tomatoes juice and called it stew my dog would not be impressed. The pull pork was so full of cartilage and grease, the meat did not look fresh or clean! Do not repeat do not waste your hard-earned money ! 08/16/2023 I thought I was going to regurgitate the little bit I tried to eat read more

Rolleld in at about 7:30, and they they were overwhelmed with call on orders from the game across the street. Ambiance was typical of a BBQ place except for the unfinished construction which didn't seem to be ongoing. My beer should have been served more than 4, yes 4!, years ago. Fried okra and the greens were phenomenal, pulled pork was very good, fries were mediocre, and the brisket was dried up shoe leather. read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - My beer - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

I sure wanted it to be good but... There is a decent quantity of food for the price but it's lacking in taste. The ribs are tender but very greasy. The brisket had no smoke flavor and taste like roast beef. The corn bread is dark brown on both sides and obviously dry. The Mac and cheese lacked cheese The service was very good. read more

Update 6/2018 They changed the name to Bullpins Rib House The Mac n cheese is very disgusting . Please get someone in the kitchen that can make the correct Mac n cheese . The potato salad was ok . Greens was delicious . The pull chicken i don't know man . I need to try it when it first get made . read more

Don't let my father or uncle find out, but these are the best ribs I've ever had. They're tender (for spare ribs) and excellently seasoned. These pigs need to go on a diet because they're oh so fatty in a good way. The collard greens are also wonderful, and I love the Mac and cheese. 10/10 EAT HERE before I invite my whole family and we eat up all the ribs!!! read more

You can see this restaurant from the i75/i85 which made it interesting to visit. I have read most of the reviews on this restaurant (the good and the bad) and decided to still give it a try. This review will also address the popular foods that people on yelp disagreed with. Atmosphere: Near Turner Field. Came here around lunch time and the place was dead with construction noises from the back. You order your food, pick a table and wait for your pager to ring to pick up your food. Customer service was great. Cashier was attentive to us. We ordered the pull pork sandwich(not much flavor), the sweet honey rib tips with fries, the brisket and chicken and a half rack of ribs. Sides: coleslaw, potato salad and mac n cheese. The meat was pretty dry and the chicken came chopped up slathered in a sauce which was not appealing. I was disappointed in the brisket which looked dry and preheated. I liked the rib tips, it had flavor and the bbq sauce made it taste good. The ribs passed the test coming off the bone(very important!!!) The macaroni and cheese was not that bad. Its not mamas cooking but it taste like regular mac n cheese. The potato salad is not the greatest. It has too much dressing which makes it look like the potato ia absent. The coleslaw was . Overall the prices are very reasonable and a basic hang out place if you are looking for cheap BBQ and a good beer. read more

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Even after all these years of coming here the food remains AMAZING. Ribs that fall off the bone and quick and hot service is top notch. Despite construction, it still remains a great ambiance of old school Braves and the Turner Field love read more

I was coming in for take out because there's a huge sign that says take out. When I saw the had a bar situation I asked about dining in. And low and behold we were sitting having a wonderful dinner that was very good and reasonably priced for bbq!! read more

Bullpen Ribs & BBQ - Dinning room needs some folks in here!!! - Barbeque Near Me - Atlanta, Georgia

Ordered the pulled pork sandwich, my brother ordered the brisket sandwich, & we split the smoked turkey sandwich. All of them were extremely delicious & tender. I had the fries as a side, they were seasoned to perfection. Their bbq sauce was super tasty. The smoke master came out & asked how the wiches tasted, we couldn't help but smile with satisfied bellies. I was so hungry, I forgot to take photos. read more

My wife and I Use to love going to bullpen rib house especially when we was going to a Braves game at the old Turner field. My wife, brother in-law, sister in-law and myself stopped in on the way to a concert on 04/01/2023 @ approximately 4:30pm. When we arrived the parking lot was empty, ok not a problem as we thought maybe people are just not out and about at that time. We proceed to go in and to my surprise they did not have much of a beer selection again not a problem. We all proceed to place an order and the wait is on. As we wait we are getting the sauces we want for our food the sauce dispensers was very low with sauce and the ketchup was spoiled. My wife and I finally get our food, well the coleslaw was spoiled the food was barely warm the "cornbread" was more like sponge cake in the meantime our family members still had not got their food(keep in mind the place was not busy we were the only people there besides employees.) Well I could go on but, I'm going to make a LONG story short...DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY going here, the bbq bowls you can buy at your local grocery store is better than this place and that is a shame. read more

The bullpen was a swing in due to a concert. The place its self was clean and chill. BBQ was average the brisket tasted like salty ass lunch meat. The reason we went because they were featuring Trooper Beer. I would give this place another shot to try there Ribs. read more

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My visit was on 10/8/21. I should've known the food would be questionable when I walked in and smelled not once hint of BBQ/smoky cooking scent and only two persons dining in. I had the 1/3 Rib plate with Cornbread (not good), Greens (they were ok) and Corn on the Cob that was good. The Ribs were dry and tough. Adding sauce to them helped (barely) just to have food in my stomach. The Ribs didn't taste like those good ol' "holiday/family BBQ" Ribs at all lol. I probably wouldn't return here but the cashier (Eli) is pleasant if you do go! read more

I really liked eating here, but they have changed and now everything tastes terrible. The ribs are tough and tasteless. Ordered pulled chicken and really felt like I was served spoiled food. the attention is very bad and the preparation of food is unhealthy. You have lost a customer of several years. read more

This is a bbq rib house that doesn't smell like bbq ribs. When I pulled in the nearly empty parking lot my spidey senses kicked in. I checked yelp really quick for the health score but it didn't show up in the mobile browser. The place was nearly empty inside. My to go order sat alone behind the counter. Someone finally appeared and gave it to me. I already had a feeling the food wasn't going to be good and my feeling was confirmed. The ribs were so so. I had to pull out some sweet baby rays bbq sauce to give them some flavor. The house bbq sauce was high on tang and low on flavor. The brisket was about 90% fat to 1% meat, not sure what the remaining 9% is but it's sure not flavor. The mac and cheese looks so bland I didn't even give it a try. Tossed it. I don't normally waste food so I decided to check yelp again and here discovered that bullpen's current health score (as of 8/2021) is an 84 out of 100. So i'm mainly writing this review to distract my mind from gross intrusive smokey thoughts and questions (mainly WTF happened to those other 16 points). I wish i'd done it sooner but I read some of the other reviews. I clicked through to the hidden reviews and another grossed out person linked to a news report about a previously failing health inspection score - a mofo 60!!!!!....i'm just here waiting for my mouth and intestines to fall out.....but the dude who gave me my food was nice....i'd even say hi if i see him elsewhere. but NEVER there again. never.... read more