Brother Jimmy's

I've been to Brother Jimmy's BBQ about a year ago, and just happen to be at the Rangers game at MSG on Monday night 10/18/10. As per my good experience last time I decided to have dinner with my boyfriend while bragging about it. We got ID'd at the entrance and proceeded to the second floor since hostess was no where to be found (2 more customers did the same). Once on the 2nd floor we were told the hostess needed to sit us (they were courteous enough to get her). Come to find out the SAME hostess was standing right NEXT to the bouncer and watched us walk without acknowledging our presence. Finally it was time to order. As I prepared to order a drink I was told drink menus are not available (because they all got dirty and had to be thrown out). I ordered my usual. We asked for another minute to look over the menu. Once she took our order more customers were seated. We asked for our food to be all out at the same time. What we didn’t expect is for our food to arrive after others were half way done, half of the 2nd quarter AND half time of football game was over. (Not even a courtesy: "Your food will be out shortly" from the waitress). Half of my Catfish Po’Boy must have been eaten on the way to the table and the BBQ chicken sandwich was replaced by a rubber. 25 minute wait for that? This was my LAST visit there. Money better off spend elsewhere.

i've had better bbq/southern cooking at other restaurants in manhattan. the menu is expensive. portions are small. the wait for a table is long. better restaurants around msg. don't waster your time here.

I ordered take out and when I got home the sides were missing. I called the restaurant and asked them to send them to me. As soon as possible turned out to be an hour later. When the deliveryman arrived he tried to charge me and had the wrong sides. I was then told it was very busy because of the big game. The manager kindly gave me a credit but my meal was ruined.

We had a large table here. Waitress was a little too perky but informative. Service was pretty good. Food was as ordered. Clean plates all around and plenty of leftovers. Excellent potato salad! Music a bit on the loud side, but can't beat the price, location, quality and speed as we were in a bit of a hurry.

Do not order delivery from this place. They are not set up to handle take out orders. We live only 4 blocks away and it took us 2 hours to get our food, and when it arrived it was ice cold. Save yourself the aggravation and order somewhere else.

The ONLY reason you might consider this place is if you are going to MSG and you know all the places around stink and you feel like ordinary BBQ. Best idea is skip it and have a dog and beer at MSG. The service here isn't very good. Food is ok but not cheap.

On Labor Day, I wanted beef ribs from my fav barbecue place, but unfortunately, Blue Smoke was closed for the holiday. Having heard that Brother Jimmy's had recently opened, I went in. They didn't have beef ribs, only pork, and they hadn't gotten around to setting up delivery yet, so I placed my order for pork ribs and did takeout. When I got it home and tasted the ribs (which supposedly were the biggest, best ones), I couldn't believe how awful they were - practically inedible! I wound up throwing them away, along with the menu, and had to settle for something else for dinner. I was bummed, but know I'll never never order from this place again. What a waste of space in a neighborhood that's dying for something good to open.