Black owned Business 💚🖤❤️ Restaurant is literally in a house. 😎 The service was friendly. I got the turkey and chopped beef plate. The Mac & cheese 🧀 was good. A pretty good place

I need to start off by saying that this place will not disappoint. Sauce! You will find yourself not using it, even though they give you a very tasty bbq sauce with your order. Each different meat has amazing flavoring and juices that you have to try to appreciate. I ordered a 3 meat plate, ribs, chicken and pulled pork and an extra order of 1/2 slab of ribs. The staff was great with that home town feeling. If you love bbq this is the place to try. It feels like you were invited to their home for a good home cooked meal.

Great food and nice people taking care of customers. Get the bbq beans amazing. The collard greens are spicy, but worth the heat mmm. Bbq sauce has great flavor and it's nice local place to spend some time.

Everybody has that cousin who can cook. I mean COOK! Yeah, Al must have been THAT cousin who took his skills and said he was going to make some money from it too! Great BBQ spot, moist and properly smoked meats (chicken, turkey, beef, etc), delicious sides, and sweet team and lemonade that taste like THAT cousin did their thing! Great, friendly staff who are down to earth and fun. Word on the street, they also own a Soul Food restaurant not too far from this location. Good times, thanks “cousin”!

Really solid local barbeque. First, it passed that time-tested marker: parking lot full of pick-up trucks. First rate pulled pork, good sauce, delish old fashioned potato salad. Collards apparently very popular but throat-searingly hot ("very spicy" always sounds so friendly when you really mean "call fire rescue!"). Their "OMG chocolate cake" is made with Guinness...looked amazing!

Al's has the best Pulled-Pork and Chicken, beans and ...pretty much everything else to eat. I love the food.

My wife and I finally found a soul food place to eat on our 5th day in Clearwater/ Tampa. Al's didn't disappoint. The service was friendly and fast. The food was delicious. I ordered the turkey,black eye peas and collard greens, be warned the greens are 🔥😂. My wife ordered the quarter chicken with yellow rice and collard greens. All of the meats were tender and moist with a hint of smoke flavor not overpowered. We were so hungry and excited to finally find a soul food place I forgot to take pics of the food but I believe a true testament and compliment of how good the food was is to post the next best thing the empty plate 😋😎👏🏾 Add this place to your stops while in Tampa 😎

Everything about this place is amazing. Thee best BBQ I've ever had, we'll besides my daddys. But man oh man. Delicious. Couldn't get a picture cause we scarfed it down. Pulled pork sandwiches, Mac and cheese, coleslaw, rice w/chicken. The homemade sauce mild and HOT, delicious 😋 my hubby is real picky with his BBQ and he was definitely impressed. It almost melts in your mouth. Really enjoyed it all. The service too! Very nice and laid back. We will definitely be back !

Good Que vibe at this converted bungalow to smoked bbq joint. This joint is staffed by a great group of folks that love their job and BBQ service to the community. Gave the ribs, chicken, and sausage with potato salad and baked baked a try on this visit. The potato salad is straight up your mustard based 'tator salad with the beans being your standard sugar sweet baked beans. The smoked sausage is tender with an excellent flavor profile, except it's on the salty side. Would be a 5 star link with less sodium. The chicken has a smokey flavor profile which is what you would expect, but it was a tad on the dry side. To overcome the slight dryness a dab of the hot bbq sauce hit the spot. That was just enought to out the moisture upon the chicken and it also kicked the flavor profile up to be a solid 4 star though and leg. On that sauce note. The original is nice and the hot is where it's at. A very good hot sauce. 5 stars on that sauce! And for the ribs. Ribs were the same as the chicken. A bit on the dry side, but a dab of that hot bbq sauce did the ribs well. Another solid 4 star nice a dab of sauce was added. And a nice tough is the white bread. Thank you for the white bread. You can't have good bbq without a side of white bread. If in the area worth a stop. Try the BBQ. And stay for awhile and chat with the great folks that both work and patronize this staple of Ybor City.

This Rib Sandwich is not Worth $10.29 This is our first time coming here and the food does not look appealing. I can imagine the taste. I haven’t eaten it yet,I might not anyway. I won’t be coming back

We tried to combo plates to taste all the meat The sausage was Chopped never saw that before. Was good. Chopped beef nice smoke flavor, moist as well pork. Potato salad as good as mine. Tasty bean and okra. The slaw was just ok

The bbq chicken is good, rice can be improved. Over all not bad if you are in Ybor & like to support a local business

Hands down the best Barbecue! Must try if visiting the Tampa area. I loved the pulled pork, smoked turkey, baked beans, yellow rice & chicken, and potato salad. The staff was very personable & friendly. We will definitely be back our next trip to Tampa.

Ordered the pulled pork dinner with Mac n cheese and baked beans. Comes with a bun so we made a sandwich out of it. Overall, we thought the food was good. Both sides had a slightly different flavor than we’re used to at a BBQ place, but we enjoyed them. Portion was a good size for the price. Exterior wasn’t overly welcoming, but staff was friendly, wore masks and the seating was clean.

The food was incredible. This is the real deal! They are masters at the bbq craft. Do not miss this place if you are in Tampa !!!!!

Wonderful ribs. Easy parking. I would encourage fresh paint of interior and exterior. At the moment smelling the BBQ is a draw, visual upgrade would help.

Walked in on a rainy Saturday evening lighter 4lbs than when I walked out. The ribs were enormous, which is good, but you wonder if the quality catches up to the quantity....I'm here to say that it does. The sides were great, I had the spicy collard greens and okra with tomatoes. Everything I had went way past my expectations. Staff were great and even asked how the food was after me and a buddy finished our meals. Awesome food made with a lot of skill and care, wish I could charter a jet just to eat here on the weekends.

Good BBQ off the main strip in Ybor. Staff is super friendly. Need to go back to to try the ribs and brisket, but a great addition to the neighborhood.

Al's Barbecue offers tasty food with standout items like smoky ribs. However, the meat was served at room temperature. The pulled pork was okay. The staff is super friendly. Portions are suitable for individuals, but not for sharing.

When we were in the parking lot you can smell the bbq and it smelled so good. You can park right in front. We went around noon and it wasn't packed. We got ribs, pork and sausage with sides baked beans and potato salad. The ribs were falling off and they had good flavor. The sausage was one of the best I had here in Tampa. The staff was really nice and food came out fast. Would like to come back and try their mac and cheese. Fun fact, there were roosters and chicken outside on the parking lot and just walking around.

Part of me wants to rate this place horribly, so it remains a local secret. But, the truth is that Al’s is one of the best BBQ joints I have ever eaten at. Please know that I have been all over this country eating BBQ. I have even taken several trips just to tour BBQ restaurants. I always knew that Tampa was not on the BBQ map, so my expectations were low. But Al has changed my mind. Not only is it the best in Tampa, but deserves National recognition. Everything is outstanding, but the ribs and sausage are particular highlights. The sauce is amazing, although the meats do not need it at all. The sides are top notch as well … and don’t forget the dessert.

I was looking for something filling on my way to a concert, and I'm really glad I picked this place. First, the atmosphere: this joint is really small, but it smells great, and it just kinda feels like a "this is where people eat" sort of place. I'm sure that makes sense. The staff are friendly and the service is fast as hell for the quality of food you're getting. The guys there today just struck me as honest, hard-working dudes. The food was filling, delicious, and surprisingly unique. The baked beans were fantastic and unlike anywhere else I've had. The mac and cheese felt very homemade, but in the best way. I ordered turkey for my meat and it was actually tender and moist. Delicious. The envy of every thanksgiving dinner. I don't know if their BBQ sauce is in-house or not, but it was also very good. All in all, super solid place to get some real southern feeling barbecue. I loved it. Next time I'm in the area, I'll probably go back. I wish this place was in my town.

I just had my first meal at Al's and loved it! Decent prices with fresh barbecue food. It's certainly a sensation of tastes! The smell is amazing!

I'm very particular about BBQ food and this place just didn't do it for me. The local itself is nice, and it feels like I'm eating at my auntie's place. My only problem was the food. I don't know if I got a bad batch of ribs, but they tasted like they were either put on top of the coals directly, or the grill hasn't been cleaned ever. I know a seasoned grill gives the food character and I'm all for it, but this was way too much. It was barely below licking a coal directly. On a redeeming note, the sides were excellent. Had the rice and been and oh boy did they made up for the ribs.