I was so happy to see this location open again. It's really nice now, they did a facelift on the building and did renovations. I ordered half chicken and ribs with dirty rice and cucumber salad. The rice was just brisket and onions. Good but just plain. Chicken and ribs were good. Tender. Also ordered aquas Fresca - cantaloupe. The pickup has been moved to the other side of the building instead of the feeder side. I parked and my order was out soon after. Everything was correct on the order and they were fast. read more

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It was good. I ordered brisket, potato salad and cream corn. The baked potato loaded with pulled pork looked amazing. The cash register was confusing. I stepped up and they walked away and another register said they could take me. The tables were clean but not cleaned all the way (sloppy wiping). read more

It's open!! Brand new renovation and it looks beautiful! They did such a great job with the remodel. Great food, service and atmosphere! Pappas anything is going to be top notch. Happy to have this in Humble! read more

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Great Food! I eat there all the time. Always great especially love the Baby Back Ribs! read more

We haven't visited this location in sometime. They remodeled the location and it's been packed ever since. I saw a video where someone mentioned the Brisket Patty melt. OMG this was the best burger ever. Add it to your list for a must try annnnnd it's big enough to split and comes on jalapeno toast. read more

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Very disappointed. I ordered and PAID for a pound of brisket and a pound of sausage. When I got home I weighed them and realized I received less than 16 oz of each. What really bothered me was that a slice of bread was included with the meat, bringing the weight closer to 16 oz. If that bread is being counted toward the pound I paid for, that feels incredibly dishonest. The food is typically good, but I spent about $50, and at these prices, I expect to receive every ounce of meat I paid for. A pound of meat should be 16 oz of meat, not meat plus bread. read more

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I've been driving by Pappas for years and know they just re opened recently so figured I would give it a try. Went on a Sunday about 12pm and there was a very long line. Took about 30 mins to get to the counter where you order your food. I got the beef trio plate. You stand there and wait for them to make the plate and they hand it to you and you go off and pay. The worker handed me a plate and I asked is this the beef trio? She said no it's the pork trio. So she took it back and yelled for a beef trio. By now the people behind us already have their food so I told them to go ahead. Finally get my beef trio and went to pay. They have a help yourself condiments bar with pickles, jalapeño's, onion plus a few different bottles of bbq sauce. The tangy habanero sauce was delicious and not too spicy at all. Plenty of tables inside and no issues finding somewhere to sit despite how busy they were. The beef rib was a sad excuse for a beef rib. Tiny dried up crunchy meat on the bone. The first bite of brisket I didn't really like because it was quite dry and not much flavour. Some of the other slices were much better with more fat and flavor on it. Beef sausage was good nothing to complain about there. The sides were delicious. Creamed corn and baked beans. Both were excellent. Overall I would go back again. Just don't order the beef rib. read more

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Was really disappointed with the service and the food. I've always wanted try Texas BBQ, and I know Pappas Bar-B-Q isn't the most distinguished BBQ joint but I still had high expectations for it. Unfortunately they have dropped the ball on this one. We had some questions about the food and were given a rude response and an unsettling frown towards us. My group asked for rice, they were all out. We asked for chicken, they were all out and we asked for turkey, all out. Even the yams were all out. I understand that it takes hours for smoked meats to cook but what about the rice and yams? We got our food, tables are clean and the atmosphere is actually pretty nice but again they dropped my expectations. The brisket was cold and dry. It was tender but the brisket was not enjoyable because it was room temperature cold and really dry. It was to the point that it started to taste like beef jerky. The mac and cheese was bland and also cold. The ribs and beans were actually pretty decent. I did see them microwave the ribs before serve but it did not end up being an huge issue for quality. The ribs had a salty dry spice rub. I believe they had a good balance of firmness and tenderness. It's a dry rub rib so sauce was applied with their sweet bbq sauce and their mango habanero sauce. Both sauces were decent. The beans were slightly above average. It had sausage in the beans which was a pleasant surprise, was a little saltier than expected so if you continue to eat the beans you would definitely need water before finishing the dish. I ended up spending around $25 for the 2 ribs and brisket platter. Again really disappointed by this, for this was my first time trying Texas BBQ. read more

Pappas Bar-B-Q - 2 Pork Ribs & Beef Brisket, Macaroni & Cheese, Beans - Barbeque Near Me - Humble, Texas

My regular when I go. Chopped brisket on bun hand fries. Love their hand cut fries. Fresh bun, good brisket and of course excellent fries. However was very disappointed in how little chopped brisket was on the sandwich especially considering the price. Everywhere is expensive because of brisket prices but most give a heaping amount. This was very skimpy and with the size of the bun felt like I had a little brisket with my bun. read more

Customer service was horrible. Girls who were running the counter seemed lost and not wanting to help. This is the second time visiting location since being remodeled and was disappointed both times. Need to retrain their staff. read more

The service was quick and what you would expect from a chain. I picked up the food to go which was brought right to my car. I didn't personally care for my brisket as I thought it was dry and kind of bland. Especially compared to the excellent choices in close proximity. I would recommend the potato salad which stole the show. It had an incredible pickle twist to it. read more

Pappas Bar-B-Q - Brisket, Pork Ribs, potato salad, and Mac and cheese - Barbeque Near Me - Humble, Texas

Everything is delicious at this restaurant. It's top tier bbq with great sides and great volume of food per order.

Rough start. Hopefully y'all can make this $50 order right to some degree, service these days is sad. read more

Pappas Bar-B-Q - Barbeque Near Me - Humble, Texas

Hamburger!!! No cheese. Served as is. I gathered all of my usual condiments, salt, pepper, ketchup and said let me try it before I add anything and people, listen to me...THE BEST BURGER I've had in a long time if not in my life! Why didn't anybody tell me about this. Came out in a decent time. Restaurant clean. Staff was nice! read more

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Since the restaurant has opened every to go meal my family has gotten is wrong or has missing items. Getting old. This was never an issue before the rebuild. I order lean brisket and I get marble, baked potato never has butter and all the cheese is melted to the foil on the outside, hardly ever get barbecue sauce or bread and tell me how you order Mac and cheese and the noddles are on one side of the container and only cheese on the other. Waited a year for it to reopen and very disappointed. Guess it's back to Tin Roof BBQ. read more

Pappas BBQ always taste good. It's definitely not the best bbq in Houston, but it's well above average. The food is overpriced in my opinion, but it's good. Definitely add fries to any order for a few dollars more. They are some of the best and the basket is huge. I would tell them no sauce on the sandwich because they have several different sauce options that you can choose and use yourself. One complaint I have is my partner received her sandwich and I had to wait about 10 minutes for mine. Also, several other people were getting served that ordered after me. Additional, they gave me chopped beef when I asked for sliced. read more

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If I could I would give 0 stars! This place literally needs to get it together. First they forgot the meat I ordered, Then had to wait an additional 40 minutes for a patty melt that was also ordered. When I received the patty melt they forgot to give me fries, again had to wait 25 minutes just for two orders of fries I never received. Told 4 different staff members that I was still waiting on my fries. Apparently no one cared, finally someone told the cooks but yet the fries I was waiting on got given to a different customer so had to wait an additional 10 minutes. Very disappointed in this place, from my personal experience I would not recommend this place. read more

The service was bad; I went through the drive-thru and was made to wait an hour. When I finally went inside to ask, they hadn't even started my order yet, and there weren't many people there. read more

Great service from the team here at this location, I got the Brisket and Ribs. The food was well prepared and tasted great . Bathrooms are clean and the restaurant itself was very clean. Definitely one of Houston's best places to dine out be solo or with the family or friends read more

Service was not the best. They seemed to be out of a lot of things (Mac & cheese & some meats) and the meats I got (ribs & brisket) were cold. read more

Management here needs to be replaced and online system needs to be fixed. Last night I ordered the family meal and I upgraded the bread to the jalapeño cheddar. There was no option online to add the type of bbq sauce or ask if I wanted pickles, jalapeños or onions. Before even getting my order I was called and notified there wasn't any creamed corn.... No big deal. Swapped it out with something else. I get to the restaurant to pick up my order and there is one slice of cheddar jalapeño bread on a family order. No condiments included so I talked to the manager. How are you going to have a family meal, give the option to upgrade the bread and only give once slice? Are these people not Texan??? One slice of bread on a bbq order..... manger informs me yeah it's only one slice.... She graciously provides me with another slice and some regular white bread. Let's assume the family meal is for 4 people. What are FOUR people gonna do with ONE slice of bread? I know Texas is in a drought but I didn't realize that Pappas was in the middle of a wheat, cheddar and jalapeño famine. Taco Bell is more liberal with their sauce then this place is with bread. I was provided with a SMALL container of six pickle slices, two jalapeños and a whole one? and one ring of onion. Again this is a FAMILY meal. Four pickles is the minimum of one bbq sandwich for most people. I'm a four pickles person. And I should have checked for bbq sauce but I asked in the bbq sauce in the bag to which I was told yes it was in the bag. I get home and guess what?! NOT IN THE BAG. And yes I know I should have checked but after dealing with the bread miser scrogette I was just over the whole experience. Quality of the food was mediocre. I personally would rather hit up Rudy's in the future. Better meats and they have a whole bar dedicated to condiments, aren't skimpy on the bread and always make sure the bbq sauce is in the bag. Sorry not sorry Pappas. You need to do better on behalf of Texas. Also pulled pork had a strange taste like cleaner..... read more

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Got 30 minutes home to eat our meal and the meat inside out sandwiches were completely raw. Even in the drive through we had to pull around and wait. We were so grossed out by the raw meat in both of our sandwiches we couldn't even eat our sides. This is absolutely sickening. $42.11 for 2 sandwiches and 2 fries that we couldn't eat is terrible. read more

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Good sized restaurant with plenty of tables to sit small or large groups. Came here for a CHL course. Even when the lines get a bit long, the service is good so you don't have to stand in line very long. If you order something that takes a lil longer to prepare like the catfish plate, they give you a sensor to tell you when your order is ready. Place is clean, staff was friendly. I had the catfish plate, great portion and it was hot with a light crispness and was tasty. The banana pudding was good, not the best that I've had but it was decent. The pecan pie would've been better had it been heated up a bit. Would definitely return to try other things on the menu. read more

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Ordered a barbecue sliced beef sandwich to go....no barbecue sauce on the side and no condiments!!! Who's responsible, the person putting the order in the bag or the cashier??? Someone was too busy talking!! read more

This was a very pleasant surprise! One of my coworkers (Paulie) has eaten lunch and dinner here like 5 days in a row. He got me to go the other day and I have to say it's awesome! A little slow when trying to order and we can call that me being a rookie. The brisket burger was the bomb! The sides were awesome and just a nice break from other restaurants. Keep doing what you're doing and I'll see you next week when I'm back in town. read more

Not sure what happened today was first in line at 11 am got a tossed salad w/slice beef & it hurts me to say this but the brisket was dry it looked like they used meat that was left over & just threw it in microwave really disappointed I pass by at least once a week most pappas restaurants are on top of everything not sure what happened today maybe it's not good be the first in line Hahahaha read more

Pappas Bar-B-Q - Barbeque Near Me - Humble, Texas

Decided to eat here for lunch on a Saturday. I ordered the two meat plate w/ Mac and cheese and green beans with jalapeño bread and a sweet tea. The jalapeño bread was not what I expected. It was literally bread with 1 spec of jalapeño and cheese throughout. The meat plate was okay. It was cold. The Mac and cheese was cheesy and thick. The green beans was crunchy and not seasoned well. The sweat tea was not sweet. Almost lacks sugar and could past for unsweetened tea. Brisket baked potato: it was meh. Brisket was lean and not marbleized. Agua Fresca Watermelon drink was very enjoyable. Recommend to try Spring Creek BBQ as a option for tasteful BBQ. read more

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Where is the flavor?!?!? Man I was excited about some Texas bbq but disappointed I was indeed. I had the pulled pork loaded baked potato with everything on it, but it tasted like I was eating a plain Jane. The boyfriend had a chopped beef brisket sandwich with fries, again flavorless. The restaurant itself was clean and the staff was very friendly and pleasant, wish I could have left a good review. read more

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No complaints !!! We had bbq catered for 200 people as we closed out our Safety Week celebration. All of the employees, vendors, and inspectors in attendance enjoyed the food very much. Thanks to Pappas BBQ for helping us to get everyone feed !!! read more

Pappas Bar-B-Q - Had BBQ catered for 200 people to close out Safety Week !!! - Barbeque Near Me - Humble, Texas

I have been coming to Pappas BBQ for a while and its good BBQ but not the best BBQ I've had better. a lot of things lack at Pappas and it could be better in my opinion. first there is no full service you have to order at the counter and a style cafeteria where you have to slide your tray to the end of the line were you pay, these trays are very heavy and the dishes are heavy along with the food on it, its even heavier there is no help offered when going to your table if you have more than one tray you might have to make two trips and you definitely have to hold with two hands. the bake potato's are about my favorite thing on this whole menu but sometimes the potato can be hit or miss its either soft or bit tuff at times but I enjoy the toppings that you can put on it such as pulled pork or chop chicken along with condiments like butter, sour cream, bacon, chives, and shredded cheese but I think 12$ for a baked potato is way over priced in my opinion, I like the po'boy sandwiches such as the brisket, the brisket has a good smoke taste to it and amount of meat is a good portion and I find it weird that between a bun and a hero style bread is a 1$ difference id get the po'boy over the sandwich any day its a no brainer in price. I wouldn't recommend the half chicken as to me the chicken doesn't looked fully cooked and is a bit on the pink side which doesn't look pleasing to me, I was told by the manager one time that its the smoke ring makes the color on the chicken since its smoked for hours. I'm sure they wouldn't put out raw chicken but to me in my opinion it was on the pink side. I would definitely wouldn't get this again I do enjoy the other items on the menu like their grilled cheese and burgers they are pretty good and well worth with id say, the steak fries are hit or miss some days they are good some days they are not sure if it lacks seasoning. like I mentioned its good BBQ but not the best but Pappas can improve in some areas. read more

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The turkey and sides were good, but we went for the brisket, and it was dry and crumbly. The BBQ sauce is like sweet vinegar... Pretty gross. We did curbside pickup, and they left out one of our sides, as well. read more

Every time over the last year that I've visited Pappas BBQ I've left unhappy. I am finally over it. There are just too many BBQ places in the area to have to put up with: - Ridiculously slow drive thru - steadily increasing prices - Dry and flavorless brisket - much smaller portions - bad customer service (drive thru team in a full blown conversation with each other and flat out ignoring customers to the point that she was literally turned talking to them while sticking my credit card out of the window. Wasn't even close to my hand) - Asked for my potato fixings on the side so they put ALL of it in one container where if was all mixed together. $16.00 for this foolishness. See picture. - The restroom looks like it has not been cleaned since the place opened years ago. Pappas used to be reliable. I am done. Look at the Turkey portion size. AirPods for scale. read more

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I placed an online order for curbside pickup. All of the curbside spots were taken, so in the restaurant. I checked in with an employee at 10 minutes after the order was supposed to be ready, and I was told it was not ready and I would be called when it was ready. I am still waiting 45 minutes later for my food that was paid for online. read more

So we are new to visiting Houston. We asked the Rent-A-Car people what do you recommend we go for good Texas BBQ? 3 employees all set to go to Papa's barbecue in humble Texas. We found it using GPS mapping to be very close to IAH airport. Outside there was a huge line of cars picking up so parked and walked in. They had quite a large menu so I took my time reading the whole thing to try and figure out what to get. In the end I got a combo BBQ pork ribs and brisket. Side dishes for macaroni and cheese, dirty rice and I got a mashed potatoes and gravy. To this I added a poor boy sandwich with half pulled pork and half chicken. Overall I'd say the best fare was the pork ribs, the brisket was pretty disappointing and a chicken side of the poor boy was pretty average. The pulled Park was clean and plentiful but really needed a lot more barbecue sauce then they gave us. I don't understand how he had such a long line of cars for such an average dining experience. It's not like it was some kind of crazy bargain. Overall the best I can give is three stars. It's decent but not enough of it stuff was great. I would rate it as being overrated and overpriced. read more

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Let me start by saying I'm a regular here. I get take out every week or two from the drive through. The food is about as great as you will get for chain barbecue. The ribs are awesome. They are normally five stars for me. Today, I stopped by the drive through for my usual order of beef ribs to take home. The line seemed to move a bit slower than usual and I sat at the leaker for a good minute or two before the attendant acknowledged, then another wait until she took my order. In my case, I ordered the rib platter, and then said "cucumber salad for both sides, with a pint of macaroni and cheese". My order was read back as "cucumbers and cole slaw" for sides. I corrected the attendant and repeated the same order, and she sounded like she repeated my order back correctly this time but as I pulled forward the total she gave me sounded a bit light, and I suspected the order was not right. When I got to the window, as I handed my payment over, I commented that the order did not sound like it cost enough and I asked her one more time to confirm the order. It turns out she was saying "side" of Mac n Cheese instead of Pint, and had selected the half-pint instead. And the way she said "side" sounded like "Pint". Ok. This is still not the problem. Mistakes happen. Vehicles can be loud. Things can be hard to hear. The next thing out of her mouth is "I read the order back to you" and decided to blame me, the paying customer, for her lack of clarity. I made it clear I'd already had to repeat the order twice and she chose to walk away from the window with her hand up, dismissively. Not "I'm sorry, it's hard to hear" or "I'm sorry, let me fix that" but essentially "it's your fault" She came back, corrected the order, gave me my food and I'm guessing thanked me, it was kind of soft spoken, masks, etc. I said "good luck" because that's not how you handle mistakes, and if that's how you roll, yer gonna need some luck. If management sees this, know that I'm not looking for freebies or discounts. Just sharing feedback in a way that won't be ignored. I did not ask for a manager at that time nor did she choose to escalate me to a manager. read more

Pappas Bar-B-Q - ows a person holding a receipt - Barbeque Near Me - Humble, Texas

Bar-b-q sauce one of the main attractions (in my book) to have with ribs, beef or pork in a restaurant like this was NOT served on the meats. Rather, there were a series of sad-looking, cold bar-b-q sauce bottles stacked up next to the salad bar. The side order of beans I ordered was cold. Baby back ribs, and sliced beef with two soda drinks was $52.39 I will not return! read more

Been wanting to try these breakfast tacos since hearing about them. Finally. Better tacos than those other guys. It amazed me a BBQ joint had better tacos. My go to for breakfast tacos now! High priced brisket taco, but good value.(5.00 and some change). read more

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First let me say Papa's BBQ is usually decent But today's meal was absolutely the WORST BBQ from them and anybody else for that matter that I have ever had. We both order wet Brisket and it was so dry I thought I was eating sand and the same with my wife meal. We left 3/4of it on the table and didnt even bother to take it home. If I could of rated it a 0 star I would of. Its been this way for the last couple of times we have been there. We wont be going back again and its shame it it once was a really good place to eat read more

Great food. Theirs loaded baked potato with brisket is die for!!!! Great, delicious BBQ place to eat or take to go. read more

Papas barbecue is OK. Given how many outstanding barbecue places there are in this region, OK is quite acceptable. No, they won't be confused with any award winning barbecue cook off champions but the barbecue is real and genuine. The pit is visible for everyone to appreciate. It's slow cooked and fairly tasty. Yes it's always had a reputation as being somewhat expensive but quite frankly, ever since we returned from the pandemic shutdown, all restaurants are rather expensive. I called it the "pandemic premium" where restaurant prices seem to have risen around 20+ percent. Back to Papa's, the pork ribs are good and this is one of the few places you can actually get beef ribs. There are large and meaty. Like I said before the barbecue meat it's not bad. However my biggest problem with the size. The coleslaw has way too much mayo in it. The candid yams were darn right awful. They were undercooked and not very sweet. So if you're hungry, pressed for time and in the area and you want some decent Q feel free to go by Papa's. read more

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