

Choice of French fries, coleslaw, homemade chips, fresh fruit, or cottage cheese. Pulled Pork Sandwich – tender, slow-roasted pork tossed in Rufus Teague BBQ sauce and served on a toasted bun and topped with slaw. Pick 3 Meat Combo – choice of Smoked Beef Brisket, BBQ Pulled Pork, Smoked Ham, Smoked Turkey, or All-Natural Smoked Sausage, $19 (double Brisket, additional $3) Pick 2 Meat Combo – choice of Smoked Beef Brisket, BBQ Pulled Pork, Smoked Ham, Smoked Turkey, or All-Natural Smoked Sausage, $16 Half Ribs Combo – half slab of baby back ribs and choice of one other meat, $20

The dishes on the Blue-B-Cue menu that the sauces can be paired with are: Slim N’ Sweet Sugar-Free – Sweet and tangy, but prepared with all-natural Stevia instead of sugar.

Whiskey Maple – Bold with maple syrup and a boozy tang.īlazin’ Hot – Still sweet and smoky, but with a significant burn. Touch O’ Heat – Similar to Honey Sweet, but with a little spice. Thick and sweet with a lot of real honey. All sauces are gluten-free, non-GMO and made with only natural ingredients. The Blue-B-Cue menu will feature five signature Rufus Teague sauces, all built around the Kansas City-style of thick, rich, smoky, and sweet sauces that start with a tomato base. We are really looking forward to adding another great option for barbecue here in Kansas City." We’re big fans of KC Hopps restaurants and feel they are a perfect fit for collaboration. “We are so excited to partner with KC Hopps and get some of the flavors we have created and been selling around the world in great restaurants right here at home. Now we want to bring it back home,” said John McCone, Rufus Teague founder. “We have been making Kansas City’s highest quality barbecue sauces and building nationwide distribution for 15 years. The Blue-B-Cue menu will be Rufus Teague’s first venture into the restaurant industry in the company’s 15-year history. Its products are sold in nearly 18,000 grocers and specialty retailers nationwide and in 11 countries. The Blue-B-Cue menu will only be available at Blue Moose’s Red Bridge location at this time.īuilt on its lines of high-quality crafted barbecue sauces and dry rubs, Rufus Teague is a local, family owned company. KC Hopps owns and operates three Blue Moose locations in the metro area, in addition to locations in western Kansas in Lawrence, Topeka and Manhattan. The menu, dubbed the Blue-B-Cue menu, debuts today at Blue Moose in the Red Bridge Shopping Center, located at 11134 Holmes Road, Kansas City, MO 64131. KC Hopps and Rufus Teague BBQ have partnered to develop a special menu featuring smoked meats prepared with a variety of BBQ sauces from Rufus Teague’s line of locally crafted sauces. 24, 2020) – Two Kansas City brands are joining forces to bring local diners a true hometown taste. The business started “as a fun little thing that just keeps growing,” McCone said, “There are hundreds of barbecue sauces here in Kansas, and I thought, ‘How am I going to compete with that?’ But it’s moving right along and we’re doing better than I ever thought we would.OVERLAND PARK, Kan. I came up with all the recipes myself and we did (create the sauces) in a sauce pot.” A buddy of mine and I came up with (the backstory), but it does have a bit of true meaning to it, we just kind of twisted it. “(His portrait) is a couple of different pictures put together and modified. “Rufus Teague was not an actual person, (the concept) is a little something we came up with,” said founder John McCone. I called the parent company in Shawnee, Kansas, to ask. The question is, of course, did Rufus Teague really exist and is the four-flavor line really based on his sauce recipe? After all, where would the good ol’ boys in, say, 1890s to 1930s Kansas lay hands on anchovy paste or tamarind?

Depending on the flavor, they include paprika, brown mustard, mustard seed, brown sugar, honey, molasses, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, raisin paste, anchovy paste, tamarind, cayenne pepper, chipotle chili powder, celery seed, orange juice, onion, garlic and “spices you can’t know about.” But no whiskey. That’s because the menu of ingredients is longer than, um, a preacher’s sermon. The sauce really is outstanding - dark, thick and in-your-face bold with flavors deeper than, uh, a hundred-foot well.
