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    Mel's BBQ

    5.0 (10 reviews)
    Closed 5:00 pm - 8:00 PM

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    Mac and cheese with ribs,tri tip and corn bread

    Catered food from Mel for mothers day. The food was absolutely amazing! It was delicious and everyone was raving about the food. You get what you pay for and this was definitely worth every penny.

    Best bbq!!
    Kail M.

    Amazing bbq, love the flavor on the chicken and tri-tip bowls!! Typically get one once a week at least!!

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    2 months ago

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    Thank you so much Ashley we appreciate your support!

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    You are awesome brotha! Thank you!

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    Thank you! Marie! We appreciate your support!

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    1 year ago

    The best tri-tip in Fresno! I'll go out of my way when I know he has a pop up. Always great food! I highly recommend them.

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    Thank you! Alex we appreciate your support!

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    Thank you so much Brenda!

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    You are awesome brotha! appreciate you!

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    1 year ago

    My favorite tri tip and BBQ chicken in town. Love the BBQ sauce too. My favorite part of Tuesday and Friday nights.

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    Thank you josh! We have our new pineapple teriyaki chicken bowls

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    Last night we came for tri-tip and left with dogfood…read more Been going here for 15 or 20 years now? All great. The one time we have clearly overcooked meat that tastes like horse the manager completely dismissed my 72-yo mother in a very rude way. I guess selling "1000s of sandwiches today with zero complaints" is good enough to completely dismiss us. What likely happened was they saved the overcooked meat till the end of the day (we went 20 minutes before closing) and we were the schmucks that got it. What really pissed me off though is that the manager had veins popping out of his neck. The way he was talking to my elderly mother was inappropriate. Thankfully he cooled down when I walked up to the conversation. All she wanted was to replace our 4 tritip sandwiches with another. Whoever the manager was needs some serious customer service training and needs to learn how to speak to people.

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