Kinder's Meats Deli Bbq - Chico

Not sure if I can make a fair assessment, I was just here twice. The first time I ordered a steak sandwich. everything was perfect and delicious. When I went back for the second time, it was like a completely different restaurant, I ordered the exact same meal and it was basically impossible. I ate the bread and throw the meat to the dog.

I have had experiences with children, sometimes it is not good. Downstairs is not. I ordered a well-made burger and it's horrible pink for this category. Then there are the finished pommes. Not her best.

As someone who used to be a frequent flyer to this restaurant from 2009 to 2015 I?m going to try to be exact in this review here on my revisit in 2022. The new location is nice with all the parking however I never really found parking to be an issue before. As others stated it is hard to see where to order from the road/ parking area. A simple sign would be tremendous help here. The new location seems like it?s the side or back area of someone?s house instead of a hole in the wall restaurant like before. I wonder if there?s some financial issues behind the scenes as to why they had to change locations. We ordered several different meats and only their bbq beef seemed fit for human consumption. The other meats seemed spoiled and smelled like they had just scooped it off the road hours prior where it was probably was closer to a servable temperature. It?s really hard not to use humor to cope as I loved this restaurant so much when it was downtown. I?m not even sure if it was changing locations that bent this restaurant over or if it?s a lack of qualified help or maybe something such as employee burn out but it was a truly tragic experience this evening. Maybe this experience was because it was 2 hours before closing on a Friday and they are not open on weekends. (Not to say that the employees were not entertaining to chat with or helpful) the saving grace of this place was the familiarity and well met expectations of the tried and true taquilia lime fries and sauce. I feel like a different restaurant murdered this one and is now wearing its skin and has moved to a new location. It?s also worth noting that we had planned to eat there but ended eating back at the hotel as the 3 bbq covered tiny tables just didn?t seem like an enjoyable experience.

Pains me to say this, but I can't recommend what used to be one of my favourite places until they figure out their order system. I beg of them to figure it out, but until then I won't be returning. Kinders is at it's best, low to medium quality cuts of meat that are just cooked and seasoned so well and combined with other high-quality ingredients that it's great. It's the closest thing to real BBQ in Chico, just don't get the ribeye sandwich because the meat is nothing but gristle. Having said that, my last five orders which have been placed by a combination of walk-up, call ahead, or door dash delivery, have either been wrong, given away to others by accident, taken forever, or something else went wrong. Today I got cold sandwiches and they wasted my time because I ordered at the window and no one thought to call out my name when the order was ready. I also ordered and was charged for fries but that wasn't in the bag. Last week my door dasher said they gave my order to someone else and wasted my dasher's time, and the order still came wrong. The staff is working their hardest and the food is still as good as ever but the system is broken! Please fix and let me know when it's safe to return!

We finally showed up, but we said we could eat outside at a table. We were faded! Every bite was mouth water wonderful. I can't wait to return.