[soft upbeat country music] My name is Tim Grove, president and owner of The Que Abides.

I actually started back in 2015 when I started the food truck.

We were Erie's first, basically, or one of the first food trucks in Erie.

You know, we've won the best food truck five years in a row and then just built up a following over the years and kept growing and we outgrew the food truck, which forced us into a restaurant.

So we're out in Fairview now.

We're just over a year being open here.

It's actually kind of easier to do the restaurant than the food truck, to be completely honest.

The food truck was very hectic.

You know, you're constantly on the go and changing the menu all the time to keep it fresh.

But really, the only reason I do this is 'cause I love to cook and I love to make people happy and see their reactions when they take that first bite.

So our brisket, we trim it up and put our own rub on it and then we smoke it for 12 to 16 hours and then we slice it fresh to order.

We have it out front on the counter.

So when you walk in, it's the first thing you see.

Definitely our most popular meat is the brisket.

And then with that, you know, you can do a plate.

You can do a sandwich.

We call it The Walter that comes with our house pickles and pickled red onions and our Texas barbecue sauce.

Another dish would be our mac and cheese.

It's our top seller on the food truck.

And we load that with whatever meat you choose and then you can add anything else, really.

Do like, a kitchen sink mac, but we call that The Becky.

We make a variety of different cheesecakes.

Our chef Bobby just knocks those out of the park.

So whenever we're doing anything like that, we try to use local produce and then it's fun 'cause it changes seasonally.

We've also teamed up with Northern Scoop.

It's really cool to like, work with her 'cause she's, you know, very creative.

The day I stop experimenting is the day I will probably hang this up 'cause that's why I like to do it.

It's just fun to constantly be playing around and find a new flavor combinations.

I think the culinary arts are big for the culture and backbone of a city and Erie, from when I started until now, I think has really blown up culinarily.

Yeah, it's just nice to give people a place to go and share our passion and love with them in the form of food.

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