I grew up less than 10 miles from the Cave Man restaurant, and somehow never ate there. I had passed it many, many times and knew exactly where it was. When I was a kid, my dad would take the salmon that he had caught down there to get it smoked.
Anyway, on this trip to the Seattle area we passed it, and I told my wife that I want to eat there. A few times throughout our trip we intended to eat there, but other things came up, and we managed not to eat there. But today we finally managed to get there for lunch. And we almost missed it again. My sister in law had suggested a place named Rooter’s Barbeque & Catering in Black Diamond, and we probably would have eaten there, but we did have the address, and didn’t see it while driving through town. So we ate at the Caveman.
The parking area was pretty full. It is not a tourist place at all. A few police officers were in line right in front of us. They smoke their own meats right there, and they have various choices of things including chicken, beef, pork and salmon. We ordered two large sandwiches, one beef and one chicken. They were each sliced in half, and we split them between us. We also got some potato salad.
I first ate half the BBQ chicken sandwich, and it was very good. Then I ate half the BBQ beef sandwich. It was good, but I liked the chicken sandwich better. The potato salad was okay, but I have had much better. I wich we had gotten the BBQ pork sandwich instead of the BBQ beef. I am thinking it might have been very good. I will pobably come back next time I am in town.
The Cave Man is located at 807 West Valley Highway, Kent, WA 98032. Phone:(253)854-1210.
I had the bbq beef and it was not very good. It had a pizza sauce paste instead of bbq sauce. My rank from 1-10 is 0. I will never go back.
Dennis
Comment by Dennis Harvey — July 30, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
Well I can agree to what Dennis said but it wasn’t all that bad for me I give them a 2 just because I was served with that friendly attitude.
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Comment by Sef — November 3, 2007 @ 9:17 am
What planet did you come from? Listen up uranus beings Cave Man is “Fantastic”and a ledgendary institution to the valley of smoke. If you don’t like cave man maybe a grilled cheese is for your skinny torso from Buckley??CAVE MAN FOREVER!!
Comment by Dave Jaenicke — March 31, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
No offense Dave, I enjoyed it. Overall it was good, but not great. I have eaten at much better BBQ places. Dreamland BBQ in Tuscaloosa, AL is at the top of my list. Dinosaur BBQ in Rochester, NY is pretty good too.
Comment by RJ — April 2, 2008 @ 9:28 am
First of all, duh, Caveman is NOT a BBQ place. It is a smoke house. It’s not the same. And to the best of my knowledge they still use the same sauce recipe created by Dick Donley himself. I grew up in Kent, and have loved the Caveman since the 70’s. And though I live about 2500 miles away now (in the South where there is ‘BBQ’ on every corner), whenever I am in the area I can’t get out of the airport fast enough to make our first stop at the ‘Cave’. I think Dave was right…maybe ya’ll oughta stick to grilled cheese or maybe a McRib with some of that good ol’ Kraft BBQ sauce.
Comment by Sandra Collins — May 27, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Cave man is very good born and raised In Rochester NY…I’ve had my fair share of dinosaur BBQ I love their little potatoes and smoked chicken is to die for. cave man is a kick ass place.
Comment by Sophie — June 5, 2008 @ 1:52 pm