Just want to offer up a small bit of common sense. Free of charge of course. If you wrap a to go order of wet green beans in paper, and then place them in a paper bag with other food, that paper bag will drain all over the vehicle that they are traveling in, only to explode out of the bottom of the bag when reaching the destination. Which then of course becomes a fun night of cleaning up a nasty mess of food. read more

Good barbecue. Will go again. Friendly staff. I like their sauces and slaw also. I have said all I want to say but I am required to keep writing so here ya go. read more

The bbq was good, the beer selection was lean, but it was a restaurant that I would go to and visit again.

We don't have a ton of Resturants in Tega Cay, but the ones we have are AMAZING! 521 BBQ never disappoints. Best BBQ in the entire township. read more

The place is under new ownership and you can tell the enjoy what they do. The ribs are more meatier than I have had previously here. The atmosphere is very nice and the wait staff is very friendly read more

After closing on our home our realtor mentioned this would be a great place to try for lunch and he was right. The BBQ sandwich special I ordered was great and the onion rings were perfect. Would definitely go to again. I will say this though. If you do want to try this place out go early because the seating is limited and it fills up quick! read more

Huge fan of the restaurant. We just moved to the area from Kansas City and we're worried we would not find a bbq joint we would enjoy. Big fan of their ribs and bbq. Hush puppies and sweat bbq sauce are great. Portions a huge but always enjoy the leftovers. Highly recommend. read more

Great BBQ. Generous portions. You will not be disappointed. Try the hush puppies too!

best food ever . Good food is good enough for me. I crave this food everyday.I DONT CARE WHAT THE BAD YELPER DAVID V. or Malachi M. SAY nor should anyone. Good God David what does anyone have to do for you to shut your trap of poisonous words.David do you wan a side of kiss ass with your meal? Reading your review make me want to puke as to the depth of your thoughts and thinking as a human being. If you say they dont know how to run to restaurant to you liking then help them instead of going on yelp and write this stupid review. david you are what the world do not need right now. If Hitler wan a son you would be a perfect candidate. telling other people to hate because you are a hater. If i was the owner of this restaurant. I would puke on you rather get a five star from you. have a soul David. If you have a good soul you wouldnt be on yelp writing these stupid reviews. read more

This place is pretty good.. I had it today for the first time because I was recommended to eat the wings here so I tried the wings as well as the BBQ and I was pleased with both. The wings were like non other that I have had because seems like they smoke them then deep fry so that is always a plus. I am pretty hard to please, when it comes to food but I will make sure to recommend to my friends Bubba read more

My favorite bbq spot when I come to Charlotte from SF! The new owners are so kind and sweet, and of course the food! OMG my family is from Texas and this place is on point read more

Great barbecue!! I absolutely love the barbecue sandwich with sweet BBQ sauce, amazing! I love being able to go to the bar and ordering to go! I do think for a simple order of one small sandwich and fries meal, it does take some time to get your order. I went in one day, pretty dead inside, and took a good 10 minutes to get my small order. The meal price is on point though! 6 bucks for a sandwich and fries that fills me up, couldn't ask for more! read more

Love their Q, Ribs, Collards, Wings, White Slaw, Beer selection & especially their staff. They Rock and IMHO have the best BBQ in this area. Try the grilled pork chop - outstanding - Love Them ! read more

Love this place! Great food and great people. Awesome BBQ!

Best ribs by far in the area! Pulled pork is also very good. Several times we've gotten a tub of pulled pork to go, put it in the crock & serve. Always a crowd favorite. Green beans are a great side choice. Must have fried pickles for an appetizer! Great for families too read more

Excellent food. Excellent service. Best BBQ I've had in a long time! Way better than the Dixie Pig!

Brisket is best ever! Wings and pulled pork are awesome too.

This used to be my favorite BBQ place but very disappointing tonight. We did get a table right away but that's the only positive thing I have to say. We waited 35 minutes after our order was taken to get our food. We were only two adults and two small children. It was a rainy Thursday night and the place was not packed. When our food was finally delivered, the portions were extremely skimpy. My barbecue sandwich was on the cold side but after having waited 35 minutes I wasn't about to send it back. We ordered one regular size barbecue sandwich that came with fries, one kids meal corn dog that came with fries, one kids barbecue plate that came with one side and one Philly cheesesteak. The only drinks were iced tea and lemonade. I was very surprised when the bill came. They added a $2 up charge to replace the french fries on the kids barbecue plate with mac & cheese and apparently the cheesesteak sandwich didn't come with anything because they charged an additional $3 for a few fries. That seems really petty!The quality and quantity of food seems to have gone steadily downhill here. The 35 minute wait was not worth the five minutes it took us to eat. read more

This place rocks! The food, service and staff. Great Barbecue and at a great price.

Ok food - very expensive for the portions and busy - crazy busy on weekend - more a bar feel.. did not enjoy - live music sometimes outside - very loud read more

food was good. had the BBQ sandwich, chicken, and ribs for meats and Mac & cheese, beans, white slaw and fries for the sides - all very good. like another reviewer mentioned, we could smell the BBQ as soon as we walked in but when we were sitting down to eat there was a distinct Clorox wipes smell (and I could see 2 containers in plain sight). overall very good and we would go back. read more

1st time at the new location. Everything was excellent. The new location is a little too nice. I kind of prefer the picnic table with the red check table cloth look of the original location but the ribs were as good as ever. Also looks like they have a pretty good local beer selection. I was getting takeout so I couldn't tae advantage. I would go back just for the hushpuppies. read more

Great food and service. Friendly bartender who made sure I was taken care of. Glad they relocated from the below grade shopping center to the Harris Teeter center up the street. You always get more food than you possibly could eat! read more

Besides having amazing food, Cari was so great to work with to cater our wedding reception with 521 BBQ. I had caterers and restaurants not know their own pricing, leave me on hold for way too long, not return calls or emails, etc., so I just wanted to say what a pleasure it was to work with them! And don't forget the food is great too! read more

After a half day of non stop eating, stopped for lunch at 521 BBQ, a second location of the flagship eatery located in a shopping mall. Nice outside seating, busy servers, and a good menu, where adults can thankfully order off the kid's menu. Ordered kid - sized rib plate, which consisted of 4 meaty, well sauced and nicely charred ribs, smoked over hardwood pellets over a gas flame for 12 hours. They were tasty, although I really felt like there was not enough smokiness for my taste. Best hush puppies I have had out of the 3 bbq joints in NC we have visited thus far. Crispy on the outside without any trace of grease, and a perfect balance of moist and flaky inside. The beans were underwhelming, tasted saucy, as my daughter assesed "they would be good on a hot dog." They had a unique red coleslaw, which our waitress explained was made with a ketchup vinegar base, which wasn't bad, but not anything I would go out of the way to have again. But oh, those hush puppies...they just might! read more

The bbq here is very very good. Four of us. Service was great. Place was clean and nice. The only thing is we got the ribs and they were supposed to be baby back ribs and they were more like spare ribs. They were still very good. But not a baby back cut. Sauce was excellent. Beef brisket was excellent. Hush puppies collards Mac and cheese very good. Red slaw way to hot and spicy. Not red enough. Beans were rather mediocre. All in all we will go back. I'd have ribs again. Mac and cheese, collards puppies and BBQ. read more

Amazing, had the wings which were very flavorful and tender. Chopped pork was fantastic and the ribs had a wonderful flavor and fall off the bone tender! The sides were all very good, some BBQ places sides are more of an after thought but not here, the potato salad and red slaw were fantastic however just way to small a portion. Beans and hush puppies very good! I highly recommend this place. read more

New to tega cay, sc... This place was great. Ordered the rib plate and chopped pork- both were amazing. Very casual, great beers on tap and the cole slaw was fantastic. read more

Love love love this place! The hush puppies are amazing and their bbq plate is the perfect size. What's even better is how quickly they serve you so it's a great place to go for lunch during the work week. read more

My family and I have gone to 521 at least 2 times a month for quite awhile now, and never had a problem. UNTIL this past Saturday, we ended up with food poisoning so I called talked with 2 different people and was told they would look into it... Never even an apology from them, absolutely nothing. So we spend a decent amount of money just to get food poisoning from 521bbq and no apology, no refund, nothing. I DO NOT RECOMMEND EATING HERE! read more

I had ribs from the Indianland location last week and they were to die for good, fall off the bone, no fat. The Tega Cay ribs were almost all fat and defininitely not fall off the bone. Too bad for those of us living in Tega Cay. Both locations had equally good hushpuppies but for the ribs I'll drive the extra 1/2 hour! read more

where oh where do i begin. yummy ribs will make you cry they are savory and tender. these are not fork eating ribs. these are finger licking get your face dirty ribs. chopped bbq sandwich is even better the smoked flavor just makes your mouth water.. talk about lip smacking good. be hungry cause they give you your moneys worth. its even better heated up as a midnight snack, this way you do not have to share. we eat ateast 4x month either take out or sit and enjoy the freindly staff and atomshere. keep up the good work. read more

Very good BBQ, pulled pork was very tender and the chicken tasted great as well. Also love the two different types of slaw. Delicious.

All I can say is "Wow! Ribs are SUPPOSED to have meat on them!" Let me explain that. I have tried ribs at other BBQ joints before, and every time I did I wound up getting one bite, maybe two, and leaving the rest rather disappointed. So when I saw the combo at 521 I thought, "What the heck. Let's try ONE MORE TIME and see if this place is any different." The ribs looked like THICK pork chops! I made a meal off two of the ribs alone! They were so tasty, and by the time I was finished with just HALF of them, I had to take the rest of the combo plate home with me! We've never gone into this place where the staff wasn't just the most courteous and friendly people you could meet, and I'm digging the vinegar-based sauce; a good "Eastern Carolina" sauce is always a plus for me. And my very picky son could eat the hush puppies all by themselves, though he does like a little BBQ thrown in for good measure! Can't go wrong with this place! read more