My one-time boss James shares my love of southern BBQ, and sent me an excited email a few days ago.  It seems he was driving in the countryside north of Waterloo and passed a BBQ stand set up in the parking lot of a local tire retailer.  Now we’d seen this sort of thing several times before in Tallahassee, but never up here in Canadia.  A road trip was in order.

So today we hopped into James’ new mustang convertible and headed out for an adventure.  I absolutely needed to give this place a try, even if it means a mild case of food poisoning.

We drove north to Heidelberg, and sure enough there in the parking lot of Bast Tire is a trailer set up with two big barrel smokers and several picnic tables under an awning.  On the menu was pulled pork (on or off of the bun), brisket (again, on or off the bun), sausage, ribs (if pre-ordered 8 hours in advance) and chicken (again, with the pre-order caveat).  They also offer a family meal which might be something to try if you’re a local.  I ordered the pulled pork on a bun, with beans and coleslaw.  On the condiment table they have the usual onions, sauerkraut, etc plus a selection of BBQ sauces.  I went with the sweet sauce, but they also had a vinegar-based sauce and a mustard-based sauce that were both very good after a taste test.

And for the taste-test, it was a great pulled pork sandwich.  I said to James as we finished up our lunch “Something tells me I’ll be on a first name basis with this guy before too long”.  I’m pretty sure that this is going to become a regular lunch stop for me.

I also found an article in the local paper talking about the owner:
http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news/article/136998

SOS BBQ is located not far from the St.Jacob’s market, google map below.

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