Smokey's Low N' Slow - South Burlington

Visiting from out of town! Decided we wanted to go somewhere low key for dinner. Chose this place. It 's hidden back behind McDonald 's all the down at the end of the plaza. Place was clean. Appetizers were great and food was awesome! Also their selection of sauces is amazing. Rather than 6 BBQ sauces they give you a Mayo/ranch Rocket Mayo Sauce and horseradish! Cool options. Loved it! Great job worth the stop if you 're visiting Burlington. Cheers!

A little gem. First of all the place is very nicely decorated and clean. Rustic decor, well done and welcoming. We ordered the BBQ meal for two. The brisket was very moist, ribs-fall of the bone as they should and the pulled pork was moist and delicious. The baked beans were also very good. They give you an assortment of sauces to enjoy with your BBQ. The waitress was great and was efficiently serving all tables. I wold recommend this place and I would return if we were in the area again!

We did take-out and were disappointed. The ribs had a flavorful rub but absolutely not falling off the bone. Dry and clinging is a better descriptive. Sorry to report that, we really wanted to find a new rib place. The Beyond burger was good as were the cauliflower and collard greens. My guess is the chefs here are capable of great stuff but last minute demands end up with quickie cooking. We'll try again but I'd rather hear that they ran out than get a sub-par meal.

Good food! The brisket was very juicy! The Mac Attack (Mac and Cheese) was a good flavor, wasn't soupy or stringy. The cornbread is amazing.

I 'd do more like a 3.9 if I could. The place does NOT look like what you might expect from the outside. Great vibe to the place, love the rustic wood walls they built, large bar, definitely a cool place. Awesome that it 's right next to the urgent care just in case. We went during a weird time apparently. It was Valentines day and they just opened. Only one girl was working the whole place and one guy in the kitchen. Baked beans were sold out, Cornbread not included in the meals. Brisket felt dry on the fork but it wasn 't. The meat was a bit tough for my liking. And the actual taste of the meat didn 't really shout fresh out of the smoker to me, even though they told me that it actually really was directly out of the smoker like AT THAT MOMENT. I 'm not sure if I want to believe it or not, sometimes Brisket cooks in ways that don 't make sense. But everything else about it was excellent! The fat to meat ratio was perfect and the fat melted really quick in my mouth to that awesome salty smokey butter consistency. And the rub on it might have been a pinch too much salt but I liked it a lot. Ribs didn 't come pre-cut (not always a bad thing) and they didn 't really cut that easy. The sauce that came on them was this awesome sweet sauce with almost like a bourbon sauce kick to it. I haven 't found a label for these style ribs yet so I 'm just going to keep calling them New England Style until I 'm proven wrong. There is no smoke ring, a good amount of char like it came right off the grill, meat doesn 't like to stick together it 's almost like someone shredded the meat off and then tried to put it back on the bone, a little bit of a seasoning rub but you can 't taste it, and slathered with sauce ... New England Style Ribs ... Unless someone tells me some weird BBQ Belt Location that did it first. Sweet Potato Mash came in a cute little single serving iron tub but it wasn 't hot. Sweet potato tasted like they didn 't add anything really to it but the sweet potato itself is good enough. For some reason they sprinkle this like Apple Crisp cinnamon crumble type of topping to it but I couldn 't taste it at all. Mac and Cheese had a sauce that was sticking to the pasta like crazy, like there was no goopy gravy soupy pile of anything at the bottom. Kind of reminded me of an Alfredo type sauce though. White Cheddar is definitely used. Looked like regular macaroni pasta. Not bad, not amazing Cornbread was EXCELLENT! Cut up into bigger bit sized cubes and grilled a little bit. Little roasted sweet chilis in the mix. Subtle sweetness, gritty and buttery, glazed top, great butter. Sauces were very thick. The spicy kind of reminded me of a salsa going in and then quickly turning into heat, but nothing crazy hot. Sweet sauce tasted like what I have come to know as Stuffed Cabbage Sauce which is almost like a sweet Vodka sauce that 's not meant for pasta. Has like a roasted tomato orange citrusy vibe to it. Very unique but very good. I don 't know if I even want to call it BBQ sauce but it works well with meat. North Carolina sauce looked like that cheap nacho dip cheese you get at the theaters. But it was very unique too! Mustard is definitely there but it also had that weird zing to it like the Sweet sauce had. Not too bad! Not amazing, could use a few little adjustments and it can be great!