7601 Highway 70 East, Mebane, NC
919.563.6731
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Hours: Tu-Th 4 – 8:30, Fr-Sa 4-9, Sun 12-8:30
BBQ Jew’s Grade: C-
Porky Says: “This barbecue is fishy.”
Beware Inland Seafood & Coastal Barbecue
I’ve always been wary of seafood restaurants that are located far from the coast, and even more wary of beachside barbecue joints. Huey’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar is located in Mebane, a long ways from the beach but on the edge of Lexington-style barbecue country. The family-owned business has been around for well over 50 years and has a menu sure to please anyone. (Don’t take my word for it, listen to the woman who magically teleports herself onto the restaurant’s website.) Well, almost anyone.
Huey’s features a large array of dishes, with an emphasis on steak and seafood, as well as barbecue. You can get everything from $26 filet mignon with lobster to $17 snow crab legs to a $6 BBQ tray. Huey’s also offers flounder, shrimp, clams, oysters, scallops, chicken, jalapeno poppers and much more. Guess what I had? Yeah, well that comes as no surprise. What is surprising is that the barbecue at this 54 year old dining institution tastes institutional.
Unfortunately, especially for those of us still mourning the loss of the A&M Grill, Mebane’s recently shuttered barbecue temple, Huey’s fails to deliver on its promise of “tempting” barbecue. As with all restaurants that serve raw shellfish in North Carolina, the restaurant displays a warning from the NC Department of Environmental & Natural Resources warning patrons that, “Eating raw oysters, clams or mussels may cause severe illness.” I wonder why no such warning appears in places serving lousy barbecue? “Caution,” the sign could say, “the barbecue you are about to ingest may cause severe emotional distress.” Continue reading
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