I grew up in Birmingham, AL and this was literally the worst BBQ restaurant I have been to in my life (39 years). If you didn't grow up with BBQ, please don't think that what they serve at Pot Liquor is BBQ. Even Famous Dave's is better than this garbage.\n\nThe pulled pork was cooked at too high a temperature for too short a time, so the outside was hard and inedible and the fat and connective tissue didn't break down like it is supposed to, making the interior meat also mostly inedible.\n\nThey serve what they call \""Alabama Sweet Tea\"". To me, it tasted like unsweetened tea. In the south, sweet tea is extremely sweet. I understand toning it down a little bit for those not used to it, but this was extremely bland. I complained and they brought me another glass from a different batch, but it was the same.\n\nTheir sauces have the non-descriptive names of Cue #1 thru Cue #4. I had to ask what they were. I tried all of them and they were terrible. I think #4 was their \""Alabama White Sauce\"". Instead of being a tangy thin white sauce that can penetrate down into the meat, it was basically 98% mayonnaise with a little bit of seasoning. Disgusting.\n\nThey couldn't get basics right, and most of the rest of the menu consists of inappropriate fancy modifications of southern food.\nExamples include:\n\""Fried Catfish Benedict\"": Fried catfish should be able to stand on its own. hollandaise sauce is completely inappropriate.\n\""Devil'd Eggs\"": topped with deep fried chicken skin. The flavor of the skin completely overpowered the egg.\n\""Brownie Bread Pudding\"": bread pudding is already very sweet if made correctly and chocolate is not an appropriate flavor combination. Then they serve it with \""sea salt vanilla gelato\"". If you asked for \""sea salt vanilla gelato\"" in a real BBQ place in the south, they would laugh at you and probably throw you out.\n\""Fried Pies\"": this sounds pretty basic but the description says it is served with \""malted anglaise\"". What the heck?\n\""Strawberry Shortcake Sandwiches\"": sounds pretty straight forward but it comes with strawberry cream gelato. Again with the gelato!\n\""Kansas City Style Burnt Ends\"": Another staple. But they shake \""sugar in the raw\"" over the top. The burnt ends were good but the sugar made the experience unpleasant. Really? You can put sugar on meat that shouldn't have it but you can't put it in your sweet tea?\n\nI told them their chef needs to visit Alabama and learn how to make real southern food. They assured me that he HAD visited Alabama and spent a whole 10 days there. You can't learn BBQ in 10 days. Good BBQ chefs have spent well over 10 years learning to make it. Pot Liquor does not serve southern BBQ or any southern dishes. I may try them again in a couple years if they haven't gone out of business. Perhaps by then they will have found a cook book and learned to make some actual southern food.