Mighty Mighty Cue and Brew

My workplace started a social club so we can get together after work, raise money for charity and whatever else we wanna do. Big V and Lis., are in charge of it and thus far, we've just been going out to new restaurants. I managed to go to the first one which was Might Mighty Cue and Brew, but didn't get to make it to Papa Jacks.

We decided on Mighty Mighty, as when we went it had just started making big waves in Brissie being underneath the new apartments in the Valley. Lis., is a major aficionado of American food and has gone to nearly every single American restaurant in Brisbane, so when we were looking at the menu for this place we were in heaven. We tried to get a booking for 10 for Papa Jacks but they were unable to book us, so Mighty Mighty was out second option. Here is their menu!

I took like 10 pictures to get this one right

Its a very, very open space with a super high ceiling, wide open spaces with a large courtyard, giant floor to ceiling windows and lots of glass doors everywhere. The acoustics in this place are absolutely shocking, I had to really struggle to make myself heard to someone sitting across from me and visually, everyone around us was just chatting quietly. There was one really loud table but they were far enough away that I couldn't hear what they were saying, although I could hear them laughing.

Mustachioed cowboy

In hindsight, most of us ordered sides and we should've got the three sides for $18. That would've made the meal slightly cheaper for all of us. Anyway, first thing we got was the buffalo wings with a side of blue cheese vinegar dipping sauce, we got two serves of this. The chicken was tender and I absolutely hated the sauce. Sour, tangy in the way of tomatoes and mildly spicy, Lis and DJ Kez were sweating up a storm though. The blue cheese dipping sauce was even worse somehow, I think they combined way too much vinegar and a very strong blue cheese to make a really strong, creamy textured, sour and stinky feet rankness. My Boyfriend, who hates blue cheese, commented that it tasted rancid like bile, that hot sour acidity, and refused to touch it again.

Absolutely disgusting

My Boyfriend had eaten a little bit before coming here so he ordered the potato and apple salad, which came in a tangy yoghurt/sour cream dressing with ample amounts of dill. The apple was a sweet and tangy contrast to the creamy dressing. I think its referred to on the menu as the pickled shallot salad, but I didn't notice any shallots really.

Mmm tater saald

These are the jalapeno poppers with cream cheese filling and wrapped in smoked pork belly. Since we've gone, they've changed up the recipe a bit since it now says Monterey Jack cheese. I've never had jalapeno poppers, so I was very intrigued by these. A hollowed out, deseeded jalapeno chilli filled with cream cheese, wrapped in pork belly and then grilled to perfection? Sounds good to me!

It was quite crunchy with a mildly numbing mouth sensation, the cream cheese dulled these down quite a bit and it was beautifully melty. The pork belly was plain and I honestly would've preferred it with some maple cured bacon or something, as the pork belly wasn't tender enough to be worthwhile. At least with maple bacon, it would've added some intense sweetness and saltiness to this. Not bad! I quite enjoyed my little popper.

Yummy little things

This was my beef brisket! It came with a molasses barbeque sauce, two pickle spears and the same potato salad that my Boyfriend got. It was a bit on the small side. The beef brisket was amazing, smokey, tender with these glorious, rendered, jelly like blobs of delicious fat veining through the meat. When the plank was laid down, my brisket wobbled like jelly, I thought I was seeing things so I did it again, and again, and again. It was so tender, it collapsed when I poked it with my fork. It melted, I melted, the meat melted in my mouth and it was a joy to eat. I sat there and made everyone eat a piece of my brisket and watched their eyes roll back in ecstasy. In hindsight, it may be the fact that I shared my main with eight other people that made it seem small.

The barbeque sauce was nothing fancy. The pickle spears were odd, definitely a pickle, but still very hard somehow but not in the way that a pickle is normally hard? My eyes say jumbo dill pickle, my mouth says iunno like maybe a pear or something. The potato salad was lovely. I personally felt that it could've gone with another good carb, like a bread roll or something, so I could make myself a nice little sandwich to munch away at.

The meat is bigger than my glass

This is Lis.,'s buttermilk fried chicken with buttermilk slaw and a ranch dressing. The piece of chicken used was a very large maryland piece. The coating was very crunchy and the buttermilk brining had left the chicken very, very, very scarily tender. Like the kind of tenderness you expect from uncooked chicken, but it was white, white, white all the way through. That being said the chicken was very plain with no additional seasoning. The buttermilk slaw wasn't liked by anyone, since it seemed like it was drenched in a thin yoghurt, well buttermilk but you get my drift. The ranch dressing was also very blue cheesy and was also ignored.

Big chicken

We ended up getting two serves of this jalapeno cornbread with whipped butter. I can see green flecks in the cornbread but I didn't notice the jalapeno pieces other than that. The cornbread was served warm, with a definite golden crust and steaming, moist centre. The cornbread was so moist and crumbly, you had to be really quick with cutting a slice and slathering it with the rich butter. The heat of the cornbread melted the butter and the crumbliness was such that the ensuring slice of cornbread soaked in its own weigh in butter, like a homemade crumpet without the holes.

Butter and its side, cornbread

Three people at our table, C., Ms M for Megababe, and Ms D., all ordered the barbeque beef short ribs with Southern spiced sweet potato fries. The sauces on their plate were the same as the ranch dressing and my molasses barbeque sauce. The short ribs were really tender, falling off the bone with a faint smokiness and hint of spice from the dry rub used. The sweet potato fries were crisp but not as crunchy as I thought they would be from their appearance. Everyone praised their meal and said they absolutely loved it.

Ribsssssssssss

T., ordered this unappealing atrocity, pulled pork collar butt with popped corn mash, carmelised maple butter, grits and adobo cider ketchup. It didn't help that she had started eating before I got to take a photo of it. The pulled pork was the best meat I ate that night, so tender and soaking in that ketchup and butter to make a wonderful meaty sauce. The real highlight for me was that popped corn mash, it was so smooth, buttery and creamy, like the smoothest potato mash you've ever encountered, with the tiniest nubs of cut corn. However the aroma was distinctly popcorn and when you tasted it after the creamy bliss, your mouth screamed BUTTERED POPCORN, while your eyes said, corn mash or potato mash! T., ate about half of her meal before passing it to me saying she was too full. I ate the rest of her mash and most of her pulled pork as I pondered what the hell was going on.

Surprise hit of the night

Mighty Mighty Cue and Brew
Atmosphere: 5, much too loud. It looks like an upmarket casual dining sorta place and the cool place to be seen with your mates.
Service: 6, our service was good as. T., was flirting up a storm with our waiter, so he was constantly floating around our table. We ended up splitting out bill at the counter and when we were leaving, he came up to me saying that a meal had been unpaid for. I paid it but when I spoke to my friends, they said that it had all been paid for and we had the receipts to prove it. We ended up getting my money back but I still think that that waiter has his eyes a little too much on T., and not on his job.
Food: 6, the food is expensive here and full of dairy. If you were lactose intolerant, I don't think there could be very much that you would be able to eat on this menu, as they seem to lace every meal with dairy. The servings are good, but they seem to skimp a little on all the sides that came with our mains. Everyone made the comment that they wished for some bread or something to have something to do with all the meat they had received. I would have personally liked a choice of sides to go with my main, as I'm used to eating large amounts of protein like that with a salad or something else to lighten up the meal. 

In summary, I am unsure if I would go back here again. The good food was very good, the bad food was atrocious and asides from the four serves for the ribs, we picked a good assortment of the menu to figure this out. The prices are a bit on the expensive side and things are a bit small for what you get. If I were to go back here again, it would be for a special occasion and not for a casual weekday dinner, this place could never be my local.