Hitching Post Barbecue

NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
BBQ ?, Cuban ?, Mexican? With Chinese place mats.
Picked my wife up at the airport on a Saturday night and said «What about BBQ?».
I haven’t been to this place in 20+ years and should have known it HAD to change to still be open in a Latin town.
Got seated and the Latin music was sooo loud we moved outside.
The server was OK and took care our needs.
My wife ordered a chicken sandwich with French fries thinking it would be typical BBQ chicken sandwich on a bun. No. It was a Cuban chicken sandwich on Cuban bread. It would have been OK if it had enough chicken in it to make a sandwich. She had to put all the meat in ½ of the bread to make a decent sandwich. $ 7.99.
I ordered the large sliced pork sandwich with French fries $ 7.99.
It did come on a large bun with plenty of meat.
Unfortunetly, It had no smoke flavor and was almost cold.
The sauces are original, honey and spicy and were OK.
The fries were nothing special.
For us, no reason to go back.

What a freaking dump!!! Frankly, I don’t know where to begin: the restaurant was dingy and had a musty smell; some of the pictures on the walls were hung with scotch tape; the bathrooms were dirty and smelly and not well stocked.
Our waitress, Colleen, who’s been working there for 32 years (God bless her soul) brought us their schizophrenic menu with a list of Cuban, Mexican, Peruvian, and BBQ dishes, and a handy broken plastic basket for our bones. Our bread was stale, and the ice in our water glasses looked like it had been broken off the ice maker wall. Some of our glasses were greasy.
Even though there was no one in the restaurant at 1245PM, it took twenty minutes for our food to arrive. The pico de gallo (fresh salsa) my wife ordered was sour, she sent it back, and they brought her a fresh one when she was almost finished eating. The lemon slices had brown spots and tasted rotten. The ribs and chicken were cold and tasted old, like they had been laying around for days and were heated and brushed with sauce at the last minute. Speaking of sauce, three different types of sauces on the table and none of them tasted like traditional BBQ sauce. They tasted more like duck sauce than anything else. The moros (black beans & rice) also did not taste fresh. The tostones (twice fried green plantains) were soft and soggy.
At 205PM my wife got stomach cramps and had to go to the bathroom.
Just an overall horrible eating experience. We would not recommend this place to a soul, unless they wanted to commit suicide by BBQ.

Another era is gone and I’m very sad to say that unfortunately nothing stays the same.
I started coming to the Hitching Post when I was kid (30 years ago) and at the time they had probably the best Q in Miami. I’ve long since moved out of Florida but whenever I’m in town I always make it a point to stop by for those baby back ribs and key lime pie that would take me back to my childhood. The place never changed and that’s what I loved. But alas, it’s now changed.
Like many of the posts, it seems the place has new owners and they’re not sure what they want to be when they grow up. The Q is no longer anywhere near what it was in the past. Candidly, any chain store place will be comparable.
I’ve never tried any of the Spanish items so I can’t comment from this perspective, but candidly Miami needs another Spanish restaurant like it needs more beach sand.
I’m sad to say that this will be my last visit to the Hitching Post. Maybe I just can’t get over the way it used to be when I was a kid, but really, it’s just not very good from a Q perspective any longer. My advice to the new owners, decide what you want to be, then go all in. Straddling the fence is a recipe for confusion and mediocrity.

It’s a shame this place can’t decide if it’s BBQ, Cuban fusion or a car dealership with loud crappy music. The food is rubber and the vibe is spoiled by an attempt to do everything, but nothing well. Once it figures out what kind of place it wants to be I may go back.

BE WARNED FELLOW BBQ LOVERS!
This place has such a traditional BBQ Smokehouse look and feel. But the ribs where terrible. Tuff, boiled and lightly grilled, by far the worst I have ever had the misfortune to try and when I say try I mean the ribs arrived, I took one bite and instantly wanted to leave and purge any memory of this place from my memory.

Most discusting place I have been to yet. The chicken arrived candied dry as if cooked the day before. The Morros were definitely from the day before. The plantains were hard and dry, not fresh either. The only thing worth while were the ribs which arrived fresh and hot. The can soda was $ 1.75. They have no fountain drinks and are in the process of getting their liquor license to start a small bar. One waitress has been there 30 years, she has a difficult time walking to and from the kitchen.
The other waitress was rude. I asked her to call the cook since I was going to leave him a tip since he exchanged the chicken for more ribs. She refused to do so and told me to call him myself and walked away.

Don’t!
Unilocal is making me write more. I thought my word Don’t summed it up
Don’t — Why?
Don’t because of
The service
The food
The lack of beer
The food
Def dont because of the food
Foul
I couldn’t take a bite without making a sour face.
How do you mess up a baked potato?
How do you mess up ribs?
All cole sales are different, so that I can understand being bad /​not to my taste.
If you didn’t get it the first time, DON’T go here

This place was horrible. The short ribs were dry. The porc BBQ sandwich I ordered was dry and unpleasant. I only ate ½ of it and it made me sick go somewhere else.

Place has honestly gone downhill. Every owner has added a new cuisine from their home country and kept the previous owners cuisine. They need to go back to just BBQ and concentrate on that. They now have BBQ, Cuban, Mexican and Peruvian. Seriously??? Get outta here with that nonsense. To their credit I haven’t tried the Mexican or Peruvian Cuisine there but the place is called Hitching Post BBQ. Decide what you are… cant be good at everything.

I went here for lunch today… This place has changed so much since I was a little kid… I started coming here at around 1996 so I am not that old, LOL! Anyways, this place has gone through so many owners and so many re-​vamps that it is sad it has come down to this. The place is like a wannabe disco-​tech nightclub with a band and full bar… It used to be 100% BBQ… Now it is mixed with Cuban food which is fine by me… But the place is dark, has LOUD music, and drinking… It used to be the complete opposite… The food still takes good and that is why I still keep coming here… However, I just wish it would go back to the old way… I used to like it so much better and it was very family. Now, I wouldn’t take my family here… I would take the food to GO, fast! In total, the food is good, atmosphere is bad, and the location is probably why the place started to go bad in the beginning of around 2002. Sad to see it like this. Like I said, I wish it would go back to the way it was. :’(

Is it bar-​b-​q? is it Cuban? hell I still don’t know… and ya, lets turn that radio down a tiny bit… somewhere a bit under ear-​damage volume…
the food is ok, not great, just ok
but its kind of interesting mixing BBQ foods with Cuban food… ribs and fried plantains? works!

I went here a couple months ago for a birthday party. It’s definitely unique. Southern BBQ mixed with Cuban food? Interesting! As a person who has a limited relationship with meat I will say that the ribs were quite good. The side dishes were good too. My Fiancé really liked the chicharones.
What I didn’t like was the incredibly loud karaōke music. Well, it was mostly the host playing a list of music off his computer and promoting his own music. Friends tried to request karaōke songs, however each one they chose wasn’t available. I guess you gotta stick to some Latin classics or you’re out of luck. Anyway, the volume was way to loud. So loud that when I had planned to return with friends and try it again we decided to go elsewhere as it starts at 6pm.
I will say that the family that parties together stays together! I saw a group, grandparents, parents and children, that were drinking and dancing it up! Craziness!

I love this place for lunch, when rolling around Hialeah. In fact, I think that it perfectly embodies my life– growing up as a redneck and now being introduced to the Cuban style pork in Miami. I may have to agree with George M, that neither are the best, but this is now one of my lunch stapes, because of. let’s call it… ease of operations. The wait staff is always attentive and I can get in, eat my lunch, and still have time to relax for a few, while paying my $ 7 bill, before I’m back to the grind. I always go for the pulled pork and absolutely adore the Mojito BBQ sauce! The hybridization may not be for all, but I eat it up.

With my most recent trip here I regretfully must downgrade my rating.
Although the ribs I ordered were OK, they just weren’t the same.
The dining experience is a bigger reason for the downgrade.
The waitress must have decided it was a good idea to crank up the volume on the radio for our enjoyment, we were the only ones eating in the entire restaurant. Nothing goes better with your dinner conversation than radio ads in Spanglish. Que Rico!
Also I think there are new owners because this place is suffering from a major identity crisis; Cuban, BBQ, and now MEXICAN? Sound nice a recipe for Robert C’s idea of heaven, but alas, a jack of all traits is usually a master of none.
To further add to the confusion, tables have been removed to make room for a bar. Liquor, BBQ, and Mexican sounds like a recipe for disaster. Oh well, another BBQ joint ruined. Surprise surprise.

As soon as I requested a sweet iced tea, and they told me all they had was unsweetened tea, I should have known this was not a true BBQ Restaurant. Who FRIES BBQ Pork? Was definitely the worst bbq meal I’ve had in my life! Won’t go back!

Great place if your ever in the area for bbq!

I dunno, I love this place. It is never crowded and the food is good. True, they offer rice, beans, tostones, and other latin fare, but the barbque is authentic and true to form; never disappointing. They have great onion rings too and they will sub a salad as a side if you watching your weight. Best of all this place is very reasonable.

This used to be my Dad’s favorite BBQ joint when I was growing up but I’m not sure if it was because the food was really that good or because it was just the closest to where we lived At the time, I used to love it because it was one of the few times we got to eat without utensils and just get really messy with the food I wasn’t happy unless I had BBQ sauce from ear to ear
flash forward a couple years
I’ll come to the ‘Hitch’ expecting to get the same feeling as I did when I was younger but it’s just not the same The place was bought out by hispanic people and while they have tried to keep a lot of the old charm, BBQ cooked with hickory wood (you can see the pallets of wood out back) for instance, it’s just not the same I am afraid it is a place in between two Too spanish to be a good BBQ joint — To BBQ to be a good hispanic place in a location where food like that is a dime a dozen
The food is O.K. I still eat here because the ribs can still be really good and some of the lunch specials hit the spot and The service has gotten a lot easier on the eyes but definitely not as friendly The waitresses used to be old white ladies that had been working there forever and remembered your name and what you liked … now they are some young spanish chicks that barely know english, friendly but just not that into it