Archie’s Barbeque

Fantastic place. My husband and I stopped here on a whim while looking for wedding venues in the area. We loved Archies so much that we had them cater our rehearsal dinner. Debbie and her sons made it so easy to plan and the food was absolutely delicious. Our guests talk about the delicious food from Archies when they talk about our wedding. You can’t go wrong with anything from Archies and the pig roast we had for our catering was amazing! We can’t recommend Archies enough!

Wow. What a disappointment. Granted, I am spoiled with Route 62 in Ohio, but I just had a gut feeling this place would be solid… wrong!
I will say, there wasn’t anything «bad» or wrong. It simply wasn’t good. The pulled pork tasted like the stuff you get out of a plastic container at a grocery store. The brisket was like thick pieces of Arby’s roast beef… it honestly didn’t look like real beef. Cole Slaw and Mac-​n-​Cheese were average to below average. The corn bread was amazing!
Service…well, if it wasn’t for the white trash nasty hickies all over the hostesses neck, I’d say service was «ok», but… she was covered in them and it was disgusting to see.

This place is the best! Don’t pass up the beans or Mac! Best fall off the bone ribs! Love it !! Will be back for sure !

Wish this place was good because it has a great location and looks like it would be good. But it just wasn’t.

This place is amazing!!! The wings are delicious and made to perfection! The baby back ribs were awesome too! Everyone in there is very nice, and it has a very welcoming atmosphere! The man who took our order even made conversation, which you never see anymore at restaurants! I will for sure be coming back when I am in the area!

Amazing BBQ. Order take out of brisket, ribs, wings and sides. All was great but the brisket was some of the best I ever had.
Highly recommend the cornbread as well. Service was great and super fast.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. So tasty. The pulled pork is awesome. try their wraps. they are PACKED FULL!

Meh is about right. Nice staff and a nice inside, but everything I had there was bland. Everything from the iced tea to the mac n cheese to the brisket sandwich left a lot to be desired. My friend had the pulled pork and my other friend had the turkey and had similar reactions. The least repulsive dish seemed to be the ribs as my friend said they were decent.
Even the BBQ sauce was mediocre. What a shame.

This is great barbecue. Their award winning ribs are amazing. They have both regular and spicy barbecue. It was a nice stop on the way to wisp.

The staff were friendly and offered useful information on the food since it was our first time here. I ordered the half rack of ribs and it came with corn bread. I have to say the ribs were just decent and the corn bread was dry and plain. The service was quick — so quick I feel like the food wasn’t fresh. Granted we were the only people there since it was Friday at 3pm but my ribs weren’t hot enough. This is a pretty big restaurant and it was very clean.
The rest of the party ordered brisket sandwiches with Cole slaw and baked beans. I like the Cole slaw but it was missing some pepper.
I wouldn’t come back here, I’m from DC and there are much better BBQ places out here. The next time we go to deep creek we will be visiting other places!

Came upon this place on our drive in to Deep Creek and wanted to try it out.
I ordered the pulled pork sandwich with Cole slaw and the baked beans. The pulled pork was very average and not that good. It didn’t taste fresh or authentic at all. The baked beans were ok but after eating the whole side it was unsatisfying.
My girlfriend ordered the half rack of ribs and they were decent, nothing special. Overall, this place isn’t worth the price.

My brisket was dry, the bun was hard the barbecue sauce wasn’t all that great. The one shining factor was that this Pepsi was really sweet. Went here on recommendation from Unilocal and it was a total letdown.

Good to the bone!
Went there last night after a day of swimming around in the lake.
Got a full rack and a half pound brisket to share wirh my husband. Chose bakedbean and potato sald to go with the meat.
Gooood eats. The ribs were juicy but not fatty. The BBQ sauce had the right blend of sweet and tangy.
The baked bean is the best ever. It had sausage and onion in it. Almost licked the container.
Potato salad was good too, but nothing spectacular.
The corn bread was moist and buttery, it should be considered as cake. I ate it as dessert.
Would do it again.

We ate at Archie’s earlier this week. I tried the half chicken dinner and my spouse had the full rack of ribs. The BBQ sauce was very tasty. We tried the mac and cheese and baked beans. Both were pretty good — not as good as homemade but good. I would recommend this place to anyone looks for good bbq.

The barbecue was good, but what left a bad taste in my mouth was the feeling of being taken for a ride.
I had one kid who wanted pulled pork. Another one wanted ribs. And I was tempted to get the sampler plate of brisket, pork, ribs and cornbread ($ 25). But I didn’t really want the brisket. They were willing to swap it out for pulled chicken but not the bbq chicken. I’m no fan of pulled chicken, so I decided to come up with another plan.
Aha! I could get the pulled pork on a plate ($ 9) and double down on the ribs with a half rack ($ 15). My estimation is that for the equivalent price tag, it should be about the equivalent amount of food. In my experience, a half rack of ribs is plenty to share between me and my young daughter.
Imagine my surprise to discover a half rack of ribs is only four ribs. I thought they gave me the wrong order. So I confirmed. This is the half rack? Yep. The kicker is that the sample platter plate comes with three ribs.
So, perhaps I just ordered wrong.
But I also think that Archie’s could do a lot more to prevent this kind of menu confusion. And upon closer examination, they price their ribs as a half order and a full order (not a half rack and a full rack). But without a clarification of how many bones you’re getting, that feels deceptive.
It’s hard to get over that kind of disappointment, which is unfortunate. The ribs had a perceptible smoke ring. They were tender enough to pull clean off the bone, but not so overdone to be falling off the bone. Their hot sauce was a good counter to the sweeter finishing mop. And the meat tasted pleasantly porky.
Still, at close to $ 4 a rib, it’s hard to swallow. And it’s even harder when you think you’ve ordered six ribs and getting a piece of meat that’s only two-​thirds of what you were expecting.

We stopped by Archie’s on the way out of Deep Creek. To be honest, we were somewhat apprehensive due to some of the more negative reviews we read on the way there, however, the idea of bbq sounded too tempting to resist. I am very glad we gave this place a chance. The staff is über friendly and all too happy to explain how things work. The space seemed open and very clean with casual, «lodgy» décor.

Keep in mind that this is a quick-​serve restaurant, but there is a server who will run your food to you when it comes up at the counter. All-​in-​all, we were pretty impressed. Pulled pork was sweet and not overly saucy which is how I like it. The ribs and brisket was extremely moist and tender. Minus one star because the food wasn’t warm enough to my liking and the mac and cheese needed a bit more seasoning but other than that, we certainly did not regret this impromptu stop.

We are very happy for the catering service and our guest are impressed by their ribs/​brisket.
Spoiling alert: Archies is developing a new sauce, beside their award winning BBQ and spicy. It is a habanero spicy sauce with lots of apricots flavor. It is surprisingly under-​spicy.

Synopsis: cornbread sliders are great, ribs are tender, brisket is brisket, and avoid the slaw.
Surprised to drive past this place on the way to Oakland. BBQ… in western Maryland… does not compute. But it beat a franchise, and the Unilocal reviews were good, so we gave it a go. We got to see into the food prep area while we placed our order and everything looked clean. Service was ffffffast.
Two in our party got the sampler. Lots of food, great for two. Ribs are very tender –melt off bones– though a little under seasoned. There is sweet classic BBQ sauce at the table, but I preferred the spicy sauce (smoky, not really hot) that they keep by the napkins. The cornbread is moist, not sweet, but also not hot out of the oven.
My wife and I had a special: cornbread sliders. We got chicken and pork. They were favorite part of the meal. Liked the chicken but the pork a tad more.
I recommend this place. Good food, good price, good atmosphere.

On our first night in the Deep Creek Lake area for the 4^th of July weekend, my boyfriend and I went exploring. We came across Archie’s BBQ and being pretty big BBQ lovers, we were intrigued by this joint in the middle of an area that has no Verizon service. Were we skeptical? Perhaps, but definitely curious.
As soon as we walked in, a server handed us menus. We decided to share the sampler (brisket, pork, ribs, cornbread, and a side). Archie himself was sitting behind the counter and took our orders with a friendly demeanor. The servers bring the food to you once it’s ready. We stocked up on iced teas, sauces, and utensils before taking a seat on one of the beautifully-​made wooden picnic tables. The entire restaurant is designed like a log cabin and it’s actually very cozy and clean inside.
The food itself was good, with the pork being my favorite of the meats. My boyfriend thought their mac and cheese was a little too salty; I thought it was fine. I didn’t care too much for their potato salad; he thought it was good. Overall, good filling BBQ.
We chatted with Archie for a few minutes too and he was nothing but welcoming and amicable. If you’re in this area and want a change from the usual fast food, try Archie’s BBQ. If you’re brave enough, go for the Mountain Man Challenge.

Really nice design of this place. I love the imitation log chairs and tables. They have a decent menu and we choose a meal to split which turned out being enough to have leftovers.
we ordered the sampler platter for $ 25 and it came with 4 ribs, pulled pork, brisket, cornbread and a side. We got the baked beans as well as the mac n cheese. i loved the cornbread most. It was soooo sweet and moist its some of the best I’ve ever had.
The pulled pork was my favorite and the ribs were my least favorite. The BBQ sauce is made in house but it didn’t leave much of a after taste in your mouth. I would have preferred a thicker hickory style BBQ sauce. This one had little sweetness and too vinegary. The beans were good but we had to add spicy bbq to make them a lot tastier. the mack n cheese was ok too nothing special.
I would give 5 stars for the corn bread. 4 for the pulled pork and brisket and 3 for the ribs. The sauce is a 2 though, sorry to say. The taste leaves your mouth as soon as it enters it.
The staff was very friendly though and i like the fact they have one of those food challenges called the mountain man. a full slab of ribs, half a roasted chicken, 4 pieces of cornbread, pulled pork sandwich, a hot side, a cold side and a 16oz drink. The entire meal comes on a serving platter like the kind they put sandwich rings on. It’s HUGE!!!