Absolutely Horrific\nMay 16, 2009 - On a busy Friday night, we needed some food and did not want to do the waiting for a table deal at some of the nicer restaurants in the Rio Hotel and Casino. \n\nWe happend by the Rub BBQ, and we should have known better just by the horribly tacky theme chopper motorcycle in the entrance, equipped with a BBQ smoker sidecar. Even diehard rednecks would think this is as lame as it gets.\n\nOkay, we order from the terribly dog-eared and worn out menus in an atmosphere that could be best described as \"" cardboard factory lunchroom\"" decor.\n\nWe order from the menu, Baby Back ribs and the fixings.\n\nOh lord, thats when it got even worse. Poor service, wrong beverages delivered, and then came the food.\n\nThis was the absolute worst \""BBQ food\"" I have ever eaten in my life, and that includes greasy food prepared 200 miles off-shore on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. \n\nLet's see, Baby Back ribs: Well, not any form of a rack that I could determine, as the ribs were all individually sliced and detached, in perfectly sliced (Read: cut while cold and reheated), or they just happen to posses a kitchen lazer beam that slices slow cooked pork to the thousands of an inch in straightness.\n\nBut then, I am implying slow cooked goodness, which this was not even close, as the overwheming and sickening flavor of liquid smoke was permeated into the meat and (or complete lack thereof) BBQ sauce.\n\nHey, that would be bad enough, but that would be taking for granted these were actually Baby Back ribs. They were not! They were actually the smaller lengths of the Pork Ribs they offer on their menu, and what was even more disturbing was the fact the 6-7 ribs we were served did not even match each other in cooking color, length and overall appearance. \n\nNice.....a grab bag of ribs. Leftovers? Uh huh.\n\nThen comes the sides, lets describe the eternal BBQ favorite, baked beans: We will just say they should be called \"" A whole bottle of Liquid Smoke in Bush's Baked Beans\"". Nuff said, ineatable.\n\nFrench fries, not bad, not good....lots of salt, PASS THE KETCHUP please.\n\nBBQ Sauce presented at the table?? Clearly UN MARKED as to variety, spices, etc. The silk screening was work off the platic bottles, from what I hope was hot water cleaning. I think I overestimate the cleaning part of the equasion. Thats okay, they were all near empty anyway.\n\nBut here is the kicker, (now mind you we all had 1 call or well mixed adult beverage with dinner) THE BILL.$80.00. \n\nYep, EIGHTY DOLLARS for complete shit, and I do mean SHIT. \n\nNice thing though, the next day I got to revisit the experience in my bathroom, as it seems RUB BBQ does not know very much about clean and fresh food products or food handling. Thank god for extra soft Charmin.\n\nThe waitress was okay, just barely. We tipped the normal 20% that DECENT HUMANS give as a gratuity, but they actually all deserved to be kicked suare in the nuts for placing that rubbish in front of paying customers.\n\nI'm sure the owner of this dump lives in Maryland or New York City, a real hotbed of smoked BBQ food activity, and he or she swings by the Las Vegas store on the way to the VIP suite on the 50th floor of the Rio Hotel, just spending enough time on premises to pat everyone on the back and say \""Good Job!!!\"".If you value a healthy gastrointestinal tract and actual good food value, NEVER eat at \""Rub BBQ\"". \n\n(I cut and paste from another site, before I noted that YES, this dump is actually based in NY City. Go figure, called that one correctly. What a joke.)