Rocklands BBQ Rocks!

Rocklands is smokin'. (Get it?)

Rocklands BBQ has it all: great food, a fantastic drink selection, indoor and outdoor seating, and deals every day of the week.  Their regular menu is full of fair prices, too, with meaty delights such as The Belly Buster and the Three Meats Platter.  You get side dishes, a roll, grilled onions – and of course, a bunch of meat.  And while you wait (a short time) for your food, you can munch on free peanuts and watch whatever game they’ve got playing on their flat screen TVs. Maybe you sip on their homemade sweet tea or lemonade while you enjoy one of Rocklands’ Caps or Redskins viewing parties. It’s just good, yummy fun.

It can be difficult to decide which night to go to Rocklands with so many awesome steals on a daily basis.  My husband and I frequent Tuesdays, when one can enjoy half price wine (coming out to just over $3 for a generous glass), or, one can have a bourbon with a side of a can of PBR.  Mondays – all day long – give you a free pulled pork sandwich when you buy a beer (and while you watch Monday night football).  Wednesdays offer 1 pound of wings and a beer for $5.99. Thursday lures you in with $4 Stoli cocktails and $6 Stoli Bombs. Fridays tempt by giving you half-price drafts.  Saturday beckons with the “Working Mans Bucket” from noon to close (and college football on all day.) Sunday’s offer is a doozy: $3 shots and $4.05 drafts. 

And oh – be still, my beating heart - the cornbread.  It’s heaven in bread form.  Subtle flavors of honey and jalapeño. Bonus: it’s available 7 days a week.

And for all you bourbon aficionados, you may want to check out their Bourbon Club.  A little known fact is that Rocklands boasts about 80 bourbons behind their bar.  As a club member, you sign up to defeat the odds and try all of them – keeping a list going as you move through their selections.  Each time you achieve the goal (yes, people have done it many times over), you win various prizes like a Rocklands gift certificate or a chance to bartend for the night.  The most exciting part (other than trying almost 100 fantastic bourbons): they put up a plaque behind the bar with your name on it. Props forever.

Rocklands has locations in Glover Park on Wisconsin Ave., and Arlington on Washington Blvd.