Buckboard's BBQ & Brew has been serving the San Diego community delicious Santa Maria Style BBQ for 30+ years! Every dish is packed full of flavor and pairs nicely with their selection of local San Diego beers. If you are looking for some great-tasting BBQ for your next event or your next restaurant experience, look no further than Buckboard's BBQ & Brew.

If you're looking for some really good barbecue, in a really good environment, we got the episode for you today. On Everything East County, we're checking out Buckboards El Cajon, Let's get to it. East County, San Diego has a lot to offer. Amazing food, a rich history, tons of community events, and amazing people and organizations. I'm Kyle Whissel, with Whissel Realty Group, and this is Everything East County. JP, how are you?

Good, how you doing?

Good, I'm excited to be here. I've eaten here before.

We're excited to have you.

And the food was amazing, so I'm excited to eat here for a second time. So tell those who've never been here before a little bit about Buckboard.

So Buckboard's Barbecue and Brew, we started off as a catering company, about 35 years ago. We still cater quite a few events, all over San Diego County, up into Orange County. We moved into the restaurant business about three years ago, just before COVID. Opened up this restaurant with our catering company in the back of it, and decided we were going to start offering a lot of great barbecues, something we kind of specialized on the catering side for years and years.

So I know there's a lot of types of barbecue, what do you define your guys type of barbecue to be?

So we're a little different, in that we do what we like to call, Southern California style barbecue, which is a lot different than say Kansas City, Texas barbecue. Most of our emphasis is in San Maria, which is a special seasoning that was developed, actually in Southern California, it's very well known, a little bit higher up from where we're located. And we emphasize that in just about every item that we make here at the restaurant.

What's the most popular dish on the menu?

Well it's probably our best of buck. It's actually got a chicken quarter, it has tri-tip, nice, freshly cut tri-tip. It has pulled pork, we have cornbread with maple butter on it, and then it's got a sampler of our beans, our Buckboard slaw, and our potato salad. So that's probably our most popular. Backed by that of course, is our ribs, our ribs are fall off the bone, smoked, cooked, really put together, and those are always very popular as well.

All right, JP, I'm ready to eat man.

Are you? We'll set you guys up, we just made a lot of food.

All right guys, I'm excited to dive into this food. I've heard so much about the barbecue here, the tri tip especially, so I'm going to dive into that, and I'm going with the jalapeno sauce, I love a little spice in my life, so let's get after it. That was really, really tasty, it's got a lot of flavor to it. Sometimes tri-tip tends to be like a very muted flavor, but it's got a really good flavor, a little bit of kick to it, not a whole lot. The jalapeno barbecue sauce is fire, it's super delicious, not too spicy, but just the right amount of spice, and look at all this food, like this is a mountain of food here. Pulled pork, chicken, tri tip, beans, coleslaw, you got everything on here. So if you guys are looking for some great barbecue, and a cool vibe, good beer, local beer, they got an indoor area, they got a little patio out back, or if you're looking to get your event catered, these guys do weddings. They've done up to 2000 people catering events. So come check it out, Buckboards here in El Cajon, if you enjoyed the video, make sure like it, throw a comment on here, share it with a friend. Let's help these guys, small, local business, here in East County, let's help blow them up. I'm Kyle Whissel, with Whissel Realty Group, thank you so much for watching this episode, of Everything East County.

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