content: Being that I am from the DC area and in Charlotte for the week, why not try some good ol' Carolina Bar-b-q.  I was given a recommendation by \""Price's Chicken Coop\"" (awesome fried chicken BTW) to try Mac's speed shop.  At first, I was a little leery of a restaurant called \""Mac's Speed Shop\"", but instantly understood the name once I saw it.  As weird as it sounds, it's a family friendly biker bar.  You approach the place and you immediately notice the flat black \""Mac's Speed shop\"" rat rod parked out front.    This thing is bad ass. It had an exposed V12 Jaguar motor. We parked in this lot next to the restaurant and realized that it had enough parking for a lot of cars and bikes on both sides of the restaurant. Next, you notice that the outdoor patio seating in the front of the restaurant had just as much space as the inside.  Entering, you were immediately greeted by beautiful tattoo'd biker type servers, which rival any \""Hooters\"" any day because they have a \""bad girl\"" edginess to them, but sweet personalities.\n     Not being very knowledgeable of Bar-b-q in general, I had my mind set on the the Kansas style beef rib with greens and mac-n-cheese.  I ignorantly asked  our server Kelli if they served a half slab of ribs and she smiled and politely stated \"" Uh, it only comes as ONE rib.... You'll see, it's plenty\""\n    She promptly served the food and WOW!, she was not joking,  the platter came with one rib. It was a huge rib that probably had about 12-16 oz. of meat on it.  The taste was amazing with their \""Red sauce\"" and the meat was so tender and juicy that I did not use my knife once, it just pulled away from the bone. Did I mention that these sides were also amazing.  The greens had great flavor and the mac was a combination of both crunchy cheese and creamy soft noodles.\n  Needless to say, I went back a couple days later, wanting to try a bit of every type of meat entree that they had to offer.  Wouldn't you know it, they had a combination platter called wither a \""Little bit of stuff\"" or a Lot a bit of stuff\"" where you can choose four out of six meats. I chose the Saint Louis pork ribs, Texas beef brisket, Smoked pulled Turkey, and Beer can Chicken.  I have to say, after eating all different types, you can't go wrong.\n     Oh, and if you have enough room for dessert, get the Fried Apple pie.  It is a huge fried apple pie, accompanied with three scoops of what appeared to be hand made vanilla ice cream, and drizzled with home made caramel.\n     I got to admit, I would take a bike trip down to Charlotte just for the food. Great Job Mac! Thanks again.