Overcast

Temp: 51.0F
More info

Restaurant Guide

Phat Matt’s BBQ

Categories:
  • Barbecue

Essential Information

3415 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA

510-879-7294

Do you love barbecue? Phat Matt and Charlotte Gonzales do and share their decades-long love of marinated tri-tip, brisket, pulled pork, ribs, chicken and links from a Telegraph/Northgate/Korea Town storefront next to A Taste of Denmark. Southerners will appreciate the tasty and authentic North Carolina–style pulled pork sandwich. Get it traditional — listen to Charlotte on this one (and on her barely-sweet sweetened tea, too) — which means crunchy vinegar coleslaw tops off the meaty mass dwarfing the soft bun. “It’s a texture thing,” she says. Unless you can tolerate super high-octane cayenne pepper, order yours with regular sauce with a side of hot sauce. Side dishes are what you’d expect: macaroni and cheese, collard greens, yams, baked beans, potato salad, corn. But Phat Matt’s also does the unexpected: Anybody for “piggy nuggets,” dry-rubbed pork loin wrapped in bacon then smoked and drizzled with a honey pineapple glaze? Or smoked candied bacon, chocolate candied bacon or smoked chocolate candied bacon pecan pie? Everything’s better with bacon, mmm. Pecan pie beats the blackberry cobbler hands-down. A must visit place for real. See if it is, as the Gonzales claim, “So good it’ll make you want to slap you momma!” Serves lunch and dinner Wed.–Sun.

Additional Information

Area: Temescal

Price: $-$$$

Features:
Beer And Or Wine
Credit Cards Accepted
Wheelchair Accessible