Phillip's BBQ

For our Christmas party at work we ordered food from Phillip’s BBQ for lunch.  They have three locations in South Los Angeles.  On her way to school my wife’s bus passes near one location on Leimert Blvd.  My coworkers said they picked up the food at a location near the Los Angeles Coliseum.  We read on the Internet that Phillip’s is popular.  Some say it’s better than Wood Ranch and Lucille’s.  My coworkers said it wasn’t very crowded when they picked up the food, though it had been crowded at prior pickups.

They arrived with the food just before noon and we queued up.  First there were two medium-sized bowls of potato salad.  Next was a regular salad of iceberg lettuce and carrots.  I couldn’t have the dressings so I just mixed mine with the potato salad.  Next were two large foil containers of the barbecued meat slathered with dark reddish-brown sauce.  Both contained slices of tri tip and large beef ribs and smaller rib meat.  A third smaller container had chicken.  I tried to get one of each kind of meat.

I then sat down to enjoy everything with my coworkers.  The sauce on all the meat had a sweet, spicy, and smoky flavor heaviest on the spice.  The tri tip was also good, not as spicy as the sausage.  The smaller ribs made it difficult to tell the meat from the cartilage but the meat I could get was good and juicy.  I enjoyed my chicken wing though some of my coworkers felt the other white meat parts of the chicken were a bit dry.  It took some work (and one broken plastic knife) to get the meat off the large beef ribs, but it was worth it.  One of my coworkers was collecting the large beef rib bones for his dogs.

Due my dairy restriction I didn’t want to risk trying the dessert.  Most or possibly all the desserts were prepared and brought separately by coworkers.  They looked good, though: flan, eggnog cake, Seven Up cake, and cookies.  My coworkers enjoyed them, in some cases eating them before their lunch.  By the end there were only a few cookies left.  After lunch we had a Secret Santa gift exchange where each of us had to spent $5 at a 99 Cent Store.  I got four packs of AA batteries and one pack of soft earplugs.  It was a nice Christmas lunch and I look forward to the next time we have Phillip’s BBQ.