Great American Rib Company
32 Sukhumvit soi 36
10110
Tel: 02 661 3801

Let me put my hand up straight away and say ribs do not excite me, Mexican food leaves me unimpressed and I regard barbeques as best avoided. So the invite to try some Mexican food at a rib restaurant specialising in barbeques was accepted with some reservation.
The Great American Rib Company has only one branch, although others have been planned and talked about, but none has actually happened. Soi 36 is nearly opposite Soi 55 Thonglor so this location is bang in the middle of the smart housing of mid Sukhumvit. This is a large site with a big outside area as well as a smaller air-con restaurant and there is a car park. The site contains various other buildings including accommodation for the owners and storage, and more importantly three smoke houses. I certainly took away the impression that this site has been set up as headquarters for a few more Great American Rib stores.
We had been invited to try out the Mexican food and were each given a combo plate. I have to say the food was tasty enough and the Californians around me who live on Mexican food (according to them) seemed to think it was all pretty good. We then all decided we could do with a little more - stupid! So a Texas triple combo arrived with half a rack of ribs, pulled pork and half of a Bar-B-Que chicken. And just to make certain that was enough, there was a portion of "Pastramied" pork tenderloin with horseradish sauce. I have to say I rather enjoyed all this food. We were sitting in the garden area, several margaritas were consumed and the food was tasty and very edible. My usual crack about "ribs are pork chops with the meat removed" was, for once accepted, because, of course, that is what it is - slave food. In other words they are the left overs from the main kitchen. One of the reasons I was enjoying this place was Rob the head man. He clearly has a passion for his food. He was rushing back and forwards asking us what we thought. Afterwards I had several drinks at the bar with Rob and we discussed all kinds of useless subjects, but to be sure, Rob is a man with his heart in his ribs (so to speak!)
The Great American Rib Company is a nice location and with a good outdoor area serving as good an American Bar-B-Que as you will get in this town. So if that is your desire, go try it for size - and those Margaritas ain't bad either!!