Smokestack Bar-B-Q

Smokestack Bar-B-Q
8920 Wornall
Kansas City, Missouri
Phone: 816-444-5542
Fax: 816-822-0198
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Highly Recommended

Off of Wornall Street, a block up from Ward Boulevard lined with Corporate Offices and homes that are just shy of Newport Rhode Island mansions is Smokehouse Bar-B-Q. Smokehouse Bar-B-Q very small and unassuming storefront tucked into a corner of a tiny shopping plaza. The restaurant sits about 50 people and the day I was there for lunch, there wasn’t an empty seat in the place.

The menu was inclusive: ribs, sausages, burnt ends (crispy little chunks of beef, cooked well done), chicken, turkey, ham, wings and baked potato stuffed with Poor Russ Meat (finely chopped burnt ends). Lunch plates run from about $7.50 to $9.15 and, from what I saw going by my table, are all piled very generously. Salads and Appetizers listed were not very surprising: house, chef’s, grilled and fried chicken salads and onion rings, mushrooms and Cajun wings under the apps.

I had the “His Ribness” which is a plate full of ribs, fries, pit beans, pickles and toast. The 6 ribs were cut from a rack of spare ribs, sauced generously with vinegary tomato based bbq sauce. The pit beans were very good (although cold) in what I assume is the same sauce that was slathered on my ribs. The beans came in a side dish with an equal ratio of small pieces of smoked meat. The fries were non-descript and I left them (and the slice of white toast) sitting on the plate.

Service was fast, friendly and attentive. I was in and out in under 30 minutes and was so generously fed that I can go into hibernation for the rest of the day.

I found everything I could have wanted in a bbq joint with one exception…no beer. I did not ask about bringing in my own.