Dinner At Firefly's

[plumtreeblossom]

Last night beowabbit took me to Firefly's BBQ in Quincy. Yum! This was a completely delicious and entertaining dining experience, and I'm so glad he discovered it.

The menu is hearty and full of Southern goodness.* It was hard to choose, but I decided on brisket, since it's my BBQ favorite, and Wabbit got a ribs and jerk chicken combo. There were a good number of BBQ sauces to choose from, and I picked a delicious North Carolina sauce. These dishes came with bountiful sides, as well as a sweet and tangy cucumber salad that made me actually like cucumbers (which I tend not to). We had tasty cracklin' bread as an appetizer, as well. We didn't have room for dessert, but I declared that next time we come here, at appetizer time I'm ordering red velvet cake, before I'm too full for it.

Another aspect I really enjoyed was the background music, which was old classic blues and zydeco. I feel that careful attention should be paid to pairing cuisine and music, and the wrong music can ruin a meal for me (I recently turned on my heel and left P.F.Changs without even sitting down because they were blaring incongruent country western music). Food and music need to match. Firefly's got it right, though. You simply can't go wrong eating hot BBQ to Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

When they give you your check, instead of mints they give you Atomic Fireballs. There was an entertaining framed poster I caught for a BBQ festival which said "MEMPHIS: 4th Fattest City In America. And We Won't Rest Until We're #1!"

It's a tiny 3-restaurant chain with other locations in Framingham and Marlborough. I hope it stays small, to retain the coolness. Chowhounds provides very mixed reviews for it, but Chowhounds is always like that. I definitely recommend giving it a try if you have car transportation and can get yourself there. Good eatin'!


_{* It is of note that I have never been to the Southern US, unless you count Austin TX, which you shouldn't. So my appraisal of Southern Goodness at any restaurant is based upon whether I liked it, not upon Southern authenticity, with which I am without an iota of experience. But this Yankee liked her meal.}

Comments

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Why not count Austin, Texas as part of the South? If nothing else, the Southern cuisine in Austin is certainly representative of what you might find in many places in Texas. Many might say it's not like the rest of the South because it's liberal, enlightened, and artsy -- but it is most certainly not the only place in the South, nor the only place in Texas, like it. Nearly every large city in the South, just like large cities in the North, votes liberal and has a thriving arts community.

That said, Austin *is* unique in Texas in the way that it is possibly unique in the whole country in its awesomeness (disclaimer, my parents retired there because of that, even though it was one of few places in Texas my father never lived) -- on my last trip I finally bought a "Keep Austin Weird" shirt -- but still, the fact that it's awesome doesn't make it not a product of, nor totally unrepresentative of, anything in the South. In fact it represents many Texan values for which Texas had always stood proud until corrupt oil barons, generally originally from the northeast, bought their way into political power and began to change things. [/huff]

Anyway, my Texan relatives have eaten at Firefly and pronounced it an absolutely wonderful representative of Southern cuisine, so you are quite right to call it that! I gotta get up there at some point...