Big Bone BBQ & Wicked Wings

Big Bone BBQ is amazing the food is so very good. Wings are huge and always fixed just the way you want them. Pulled Pork sandwich is enough for two people. Staff is always fast and friendly. The deal on Monday nights is great. Large portions and fantastic food.

My boyfriend and I were staying in the area and I picked this place for dinner because he loves small BBQ joints. And he was not disappointed! I can’t recall what we had ordered, but it came with a bit of everything. The ribs were tender, and sauce was really good. So were the wings.
This place is quite busy for the location, and I can totally understand why.

I have been here several times and each time it has been great. There has regularly been a line of people at the counter waiting for pickup each time I have gone. The restaurant is small with only about 6 – 8 tables for diners and they do a lot of takeout from the main counter.
It is clean and simple inside and the wait staff has done their job each time, checking on us and making sure everything was ok. I would not recommend it as a first date option but I am sure there are some extra classy Keswick couples that would find it perfect to shovel huge amounts of messy food by hand less than 2 feet across a table from each other at a first meetup.
The portions are made for lumberjacks. There is an Elvis combo that gives you a little bit of everything and I just realized while writing this review that it is because Elvis was a fat ass and could eat a large meal before he died… ha. Anyways, the fries are great, you get a lot of them. The ribs are great. The pulled pork is tasty. The chicken wings are on the small side but tasty, I always just get the smoked wings and have never been disappointed. The combo is supposed to be for one person but the last few times it has fed 2 of us and been leftovers as well.
I can not think of another place in town that does BBQ food like Big Bone does, as well. It is good food, good prices, huge portions and a good atmosphere.

Not bad! Ribs are pretty good, the wings are okay. I’m not into smoked meat too much, but if you like smoked meats you’ll like it!
I don’t like their burgers at all. They are frozen patties, and it’s obvious. For a place that takes pride in good BBQ, you’d think they would make the burger patties in house.
Prices are pretty good, trying to order over the phone is near impossible. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to get through.

I was in the Simcoe area with my wife and 2yr.-old son and stumbled onto this place. Tried their Monday wing and rib special with your choice of salad or fries for $ 25 tax included. We were absolutely overwhelmed with the amount of food that came to the table. The food wasn’t amazing but definitely good value for what we paid, not to mention we had leftovers for the next two days.

This is the best smoked bbq I have ever had. Pulled pork ribs brisket all good. The smoked wings are really delicious and fall off the bone. We have never had anything there that was not awesome !

I like the food, and it’s good value. Restaurant is nicer than the Newmarket one too.

Big Bone BBQ in Keswick is one of the best in the town for wings or ribs. Anyone who stops by needs to try the smoked wings, they are fantastic. While I certainly wish that they had draft beer, I think that Big Bone is best gotten as takeout to enjoy at home watching TV.
The service is okay and the seating is what you would expect from a place like this the food certainly is a hidden gem. As a last bit of praise you really do need to try their various types of sauces. The medium is great for dipping fries or meat!

Ordered takeout from this location after learning of its existence on Unilocal.The ribs were really good but a bit dry. I was expecting some BBQ sauce included with the takeout but we received none. The wings weren’t so good. They were cooked well but very bland. The medium wings had no kick at all while the jerk wings were a very weird texture and tasted nothing like jerk. The beans included were very tasty but small portion. The cornbread was very mediocre as well as the coleslaw. The overall value for dollar was decent however. I would try this place again just for the ribs.

This would probably have been a 5 star rating if there wasn’t just a slight smacking of «Canadian-​ness» to some of the items. From my experience Canadian’s have no clue what good BBQ is and thankfully this place is owned by 2 Americans. Seems like Canada has fallen in love with shitty microwave style pulled pork and you can find it almost anywhere these days *cough*cough* The Smokery in Stouffville *cough*cough*.
Had the beef brisket sandwich, which I believe said comes sliced but what I got was pretty much pulled and then sauced. Would have liked to be able to choose the amount of sauce I wanted (BBQ purists will tell you that BBQ should be served without sauce allowing the diner to apply the amount they deem appropriate). A little too much sauce for me but the flavor were pretty much bang on.
French fries were the battered kind, which aren’t my favorite either but pretty damn good none the less.
Beans tasted essentially like out of a can, but I didn’t mind so much.
The portions here are really big. Ate the whole sandwich which was probably over 1LB. But couldn’t finish the mountain of fries I got.
All in all, I’d say this is pretty much as good as casual BBQ will ever be in Canada. You can get way way way better BBQ from the back of a truck in Austin, TX, but for the great white north, this is great.
If you have a hankoring for BBQ, anyone of the Big Bone locations has you covered. If you live around Stouffville area and are considering The Smokery in town, TRUST ME, save your money and make the 20min drive up to Keswick or Newmarket for Big Bone. Night and day difference in quality and about half the price.
One quick side note, my good buddy had his engagement party catered by Big Bone and it was epic. Great stuff.

Best pulled pork and BBQ place around, with several easily accessible locations in York Region! Their sauce is delicious, HUGE portions, and amazing chicken wings which are very worthy of mentioning– and can’t forget their crispy yummy fries! Their ribs are good but not my favourite only because I prefer a «fall-​off-​the-​bone» instead of smoked ribs, but I know my Hubby loves them! We usually get the «Elvis» combo, which has a little bit of everything, and there’s always leftovers! Cornbread is fresh and good, although I’m not a huge fan of their coleslaw! Oh– and staff is very friendly!!!

You won’t find better BBQ north of the GTA, unless you yourself are some form of epic grillmastering deity.
Seriously though, this place is great.
When you first walk in your olfactory senses will be pushed to their limit of BBQ beefy goodness and you’ll find yourself plummeting into a place of smoldering porky delight.
Everything I’ve tried here, which consists of everything, is good. Unless your a vegetarian … But then I’d question why you’d enter an eating establishment with a façade consisting of a rock-​and-​roll pig surrounded by sauce as your first choice anyway.
I’m a big fan of fall-​off the bone ribs and this place delivers every time. The ribs are always well sauced with their own signature in house BBQ sauce, which you can purchase should you want to, and the home made baked beans /​coleslaw /​and warm cornbread are a must have every time I go.
Service is without frills but adequate and pleasant, and the price comes in at what I’ve come to expect from similar establishments at between $ 15-​$ 25 depending on your entrée.
My only regular complaint is that I’m always uncomfortably full when I leave; with food this good, doggy-​bagging is never an option I afford myself.
Mouth is watering…
Ray from Beaverton

My parents tried this for the first time a few weeks ago, so when I visited them for Father’s Day weekend, we decided to grab some take-​out from there.
When they went on their own (dine in), they got the Big Bone Combo ($ 21.95) which comes with ½ a rack of ribs, 1 lb of wings, a lot of battered french fries, 2 small slices of cornbread, 1 small serving of baked beans, and 1 small serving of coleslaw. They said the service was quick and pleasant. It was more than enough food for the two of them (and my dad eats more than the average person) so they took a lot of it home to eat later.
This time, we got the exact same thing but for the three of us, and the portion was just right to split among 3. There were 7 large ribs, 10 wings, and enough fries where each person got quite a lot. The tiny portions of beans and coleslaw don’t really divide out well (they are definitely single-​serving portions) but otherwise, it worked well for each person to get quite a large plate of food.
In terms of taste, it was all quite good. My mom can’t tolerate spicy and doesn’t really like flavoured wings, so we got the ‘original smoked wings’ variety, which were fine, but I’d have preferred one of their flavoured variations such as dry cajun, honey mustard, or hot creamy parm. The ribs were nice and saucy and had a decent amount of meat on the bone. The fries were really nice, and while I barely got any coleslaw, it was creamy and rich.
After tax, that works out to about $ 8 a person if you divide it by 3, and so I’d say it’s worth it if you get it to go (eating in, you have to add beverages, tip, etc). If you like baked beans or coleslaw, I suggest paying 1 or 2 bucks more and getting a few more of those as sides, so each person has a full side.
I would return — maybe to try their burgers or their other kinds of wings.
I took a picture of their menu. I assume the pricing and availability varies by location, so assume it only applies to the Keswick location.