Florida Cracker Bar-B-Que

Since the new owners, Red and his wife Amanda, took over last July 2015, this location has done nothing but improved constantly and is the best place in town for BBQ. The owners are very nice and friendly and good to talk to. They also get to know their customers names and really take pride in providing great service. The prices are very affordable and the servings are very large and will fill you up. All of the food and the salad bar tastes great. They also have daily specials that are even a better deal. If you want really good BBQ then come here and eat. Your wallet and your belly will both leave full.

Good food @ a reasonable price. The Brunswick Stew is awesome! You won’t go wrong here!

A visually striking interior. Alligators and old road sign on the wall. The meat is smoked in a pit for several hours off site. No matter what you order it will be fall off the bone tender. Not a real date location but a fun lunch stop.

Traveling from Illinois to Cincinnati and found this gem on Unilocal.Great pork bbq, smoked chicken wings, homemade slaw, homemade potato salad. Great prices and friendly wait staff/​management! So great to find a place like this when traveling instead of stopping at the cookie cutter fast food places. Yum!

Amazing… from the staff to the amazing food to the atmosphere… really great place!!! I will never forget that first smell when the door opened… I knew at that point things were looking good. The salad bar offered great options including 3 homemade soups including chicken and corn chowder which was phenomenal! Top it all off with homemade brownies and Unlimited refills on Sweet Tea or Lemonade… need I say more???

An unplanned stop in became a true treat of a find. Food was very affordable. It cost us $ 5.95 each for the unlimited salad and soup bar and they threw in a pork sandwich and chips! Its run by a family that knows true southern hospitality and cooking. Even their sweet tea was brewed the true southern way. I definately recommend this place.

Great little place for scratch BBQ! New managing partner knows what he’s doing. The baked beans are incredible! Definitely stop in and see the changes and enjoy the great food!

We don’t get to Shelbyville, real often, but when we found we were returning for an event, and were metting out of town friends there, we knew we had to take them to Florida Cracker based on our past experience.
Sadly, it was nothing like the last itme we were there.
The last time I was there, I was SO impressed with the brisket, and had been craving it all week, and knew that was what I wanted.
Guess what? Theyv’e taken brisket off their menu. I’m not sure I recall going to a BBQ place without brisket, but, oh well, I’ll get the smoked sausage. THAT also was outstanding last time.
Sadly, it is not run of the mill grocery store type smoked sausage… again, nothing like what I had before.
Well, the BBQ baked beans were outstanding last itme, maybe they’ll be the saving grace.
Nope. They seemed to be straight out of the can beans.
All in all, a pretty mediocre meal that makes me wonder if they’re under new ownership. I’ll be generous and give them a 2 because the service was friendly and good, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been this disappointed in a restaurant.

It pains me to write this review. It really does. It makes me sad to see a local eatery backslide in such a short amount of time, but that is exactly what has happened with Florida Cracker.
The first time we ate there in August 2014, we were SUPER impressed and told all our friends about it. Everything was delicious and SPECIAL. It seems that now they have gone the way of the quick fix.
Their smoked sausage used to be hand made. What we had last night was obviously pre-​packaged. They have taken the incredible brisket they served off the menu because, as our server said, «it went up in price and no one was buying it.» The sides we loved have gone down in quality as well.
I will say that the service was good and our server was friendly. And the pulled pork is still very good, as well as their sauces. So all is not lost. It was just extremely disappointing based on our first visit here.

Saw sign on I-​74 stopped for lunch, made our day, try the spicy sauce and anything pork

We decided to check Unilocal on our road trip to find a local place to eat. We found that Florida cracker BBQ had good reviews so we decided to try it.
The sign simply says BBQ outside. We were greeted by friendly staff who offered us the lunch menu in addition to the dinner menu. It was 830 PM and they were close to closing.
The food came out very quick and was excellent. The pulled pork BBQ on garlic bread was the best I have had in a while. The BBQ sauces were great and the coleslaw was very tasty. Highly recommended!

I’m from Georgia, so I love good barbecue, and this place sure has it. Definitely recommend stopping in for a casual, delicious lunch. They recently started accepting credit cards too, so no stress about needing cash anymore.

On my way back to Virginia I spotted a billboard for the Florida Cracker and decided to give it a try. Boy am I glad I did! The service is fast and friendly, and the food is delicious! I had the pork rib combo and my husband had the beef brisket. Both were tender with just the right amount of smoky flavor. The portions were large enough that neither of us finished it all.
Being from the South I was reluctant to order sweet tea, but that, too, was done just right — not too strong and with plenty of sugar.
If you’re in the area I would recommend giving the Florida Cracker a try. If I lived there it would be one of my regular spots.

Best BBQ ever!!! Friendly ppl too!!!
Finally a good barbecue place in Shelbyville. And they cater too. They have very good coleslaw. A cold beer would be nice to have to go with it. They said maybe later.