Pig Iron Bar-B-Q in Seattle

The BEST BBQ in Seattle PERIOD!!

I've been coming for years.  It is the best?  No, but I like it's consistency in food quality and good service. Their creamed corn is great. They have offer 3 different sauces to add for the brisket, ribs, pulled pork, etc. Parking is a challenge but worth a try.

Leave it to me to order a grilled fish sandwich at a BBQ joint, but, then again, there are rewards to not always going with the obvious choices. I could of easily went with a pulled pork sandwich when I recently paid a visit to Pig Iron Bar-B-Que, but I've eaten a lot of pulled pork in my time.  What I haven't had a lot of are grilled fish sandwiches.  Most often, fish is fried before it's incorporated into a sandwich.  Not that that's a problem. A couple of months ago I wrote about the Fish Sandwich from Nosh the Truck.  It was deep-fried and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  There is, however, something inherently more difficult in grilling fish and having it stand out in sandwich form.  I'm happy to report that Pig Iron has found a way! According to the menu the catfish fillet is marinate in Shiner Bock and Pig Iron sauce and then grilled.  If that sounds like the catfish would be overpowered by the marinade, you'd be wrong.  The flavor of the catfish still comes through. That's a plus if you like catfish, which I do and if you don't, well, I doubt that you would have order this sandwich in the first place.  The grilling also provides nice surface areas where the sauce gets caramelized and extra delicious. Lettuce, a smear of remoulade and an extra drizzle of remoulade over the fillet. All that is situated on a soft potato roll. The remoulade isn't overly assertive, once again, allowing the catfish to be the star ingredient of the sandwich.  The potato roll is a good choice.  Its soft texture makes eating the somewhat delicate fillets that much easier to handle without it slipping away from the inside of the sandwich.  However, I wish that the roll had been toasted on the flat top.  ...