What do you do when you find out that Sylvester Stallone has stopped by your restaurant for lunch?
You get back there in a hurry!
That’s exactly what Pig Beach BBQ executive chef and co-founder Matt Abdoo did on Thursday, Feb. 1, when the megastar dropped by.
On a supply run for the restaurant when he got the call, Abdoo said, “I dropped everything and raced back to the store,” even joking “I may have run a light or two.”
He said that they sat Stallone and his guests on the south side of the 4,000-square-foot-restaurant, but eventually moved them to the north side (which is normally closed during lunch service) so they could have a little more privacy.
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Abdoo said Stallone couldn’t have been nicer to the other restaurant guests and his staff.
The Palm Beach resident and his guests ordered several items including sides, brisket sandwiches and their famed smashburger.
Manager Carson Robins said their smash burger is one of the most popular items on the menu. It comes with one, two or three smashed American Wagyu beef patties from Schweid & Sons, American cheese, griddled onions, dill pickles and their secret sauce served on a Martin’s Potato Roll. Robins described the sauce as a smoky aioli.