The Backwoods Eatery is a BBQ food trailer parked next to the former Jay Laundry Room (blue building) across the road from Hannaford in Jay. I pulled into the parking lot just before 7pm and parked in front of the blue building and walked to the trailer, which also has a meat smoker next to it. The friendly owner walks out of the blue building over to the trailer to meet me to take my order and gives me a laminated menu to review.
The menu offers BBQ meats (smoked chicken, pulled pork, beef brisket, smoked ribs), baked beans, cole slaw, mac & cheese, fried chicken sandwich, burgers & fries, smoked chicken salad, deep fried hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and onion rings.
I decide on the BBQ Pulled Pork Platter ($11.95 plus tax) with baked beans, cole slaw, and corn bread and a 16 oz Macaroni & Cheese ($7.95 plus tax). My food was prepared to order and brought over to my vehicle in about 10 minutes. The portions of food were great, lots of tender lean pulled pork in a smoky BBQ sauce, sweet baked beans with pork, a sweet chilled cole slaw, and soft sweet moist corn bread which had some crumbles. The mac & cheese was dense and rich with soft elbows in a hot thick orange cheese sauce. I was able to eat half of my dinner and saved the rest for the next evening. read more