Barbecue in Kingston Tennessee

Our friends Norm and Linda invited us to go to dinner with them over in Kingston Tennessee.  They’d recently eaten at the Public House in Kingston and they’d passed a barbecue restaurant that was really busy!  They wanted to give it a try and we readily agreed…

I took this photo of the Smokehouse Bar and Grill from a distance…just so I could include that classic Mercury Cougar convertible in the shot!  I’m guessing that it’s a 1972 or 1973 model.  It’s a great looking car but I’ve never seen a green interior like that before…

…and here’s a close-up of the entrance to the restaurant with Norm, Linda and Laurie about to enter.  The sign is pretty low key.  Love the American flags!

                                    

These 2 photos show the dining area with a close-up of the bar.  The restaurant reminded all of us of a ‘north country’ bar and grill.  All of us have spent a lot of time in northern Michigan and Wisconsin.  It’s a straight-forward look with most of the décor…and business…at the bar.  Apparently they do feature live music and we also found out that karaoke is really a big draw at the Smokehouse!

I don’t remember who ordered the side salad but it was decent…no issues.

The previous couple of photos show Norm’s dinner choice.  It was a little unusual… This is the Peanut Butter Bacon Cheeseburger. ($10.99) This was eight ounces of ground beef topped with white American cheese, pecan wood smoked bacon…and peanut butter.  Norm told us that it was a good sandwich.  The onion rings were just OK.

Linda ordered the same thing that I did…only with different sides.  Sorry about the angle of the photo!  This was her Beef Brisket Dinner Plate with green beans plus macaroni and cheese. ($12.99) Linda liked her sides but thought that the brisket was a bit dry.

Laurie loves barbecue ribs and we’ve had them all over the USA.  She ordered the Half Rack of Ribs…baby back ribs ‘rubbed and smoked to tender perfection’ served with one of the restaurant’s signature sauces. ($11.99)

There was only one problem.  These ribs were really dry, hard and tasteless!  She couldn’t eat them… The corn muffin was decent and the beer battered French fries were very tasty.  I ended up bringing almost all of her ribs home and slathering them with sauce and a sprinkling of water so I could microwave them ‘back to life’ for one of my leftover meals.

As I said previously, I also ordered the Beef Brisket Dinner Plate.  I agreed that the beer battered fries were very tasty…but the brisket was so dry that I used half a bottle of the Smokehouse spicy barbecue sauce so I could eat it.  As far as quantity goes, the prices were reasonable and portions were more than generous but, if the food doesn’t hit the mark, price and quantity doesn’t matter much.

Our waitress was very nice and helpful.  Before we really got into our food the owner came over because he saw me taking pictures and he wanted to know if everything was OK.  At that point, it was…

Maybe we visited the Smokehouse Bar and Grill on a bad day… If you’d like to give a try to form your own opinion, this restaurant is open from 8 AM until Midnight Sunday through Thursday and from 8 AM to 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays.  The Smokehouse Bar and Grill is located at 708 West Race Street in Kingston Tennessee.  Phone: 865-248-8026.  Website:  https://www.smokehousebarngrill.com/.  Note: The website doesn’t seem to feature a menu so the prices I quoted came from a Zomato listing.

So following dinner, we returned to our house for dessert…Laurie’s molasses ginger cookies and ice cream!  Our foster cat Roger climbed into Norm’s lap and was rewarded by heavy petting.  Cute isn’t it!  Norm got in a little ‘trouble’ with Linda by complaining that their cats don’t sit in his lap… In any case, Roger has now moved on to a new home with his former owner’s son and his fiancé where Roger will get a lot of attention.

Just click on any of the photos to enlarge them…

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Take Care, Big Daddy Dave