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Nice....good finish out. Open bar...lots of tv's...Marshalls.

Good bbq! Really good. And their menu is deep and wide. Sauces were tasty except one that tasted like that vinegar Memphis stuff.

Sides were all good.

Really good service.

I will go back there!

Do tell where, I love a good que.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx?KC_Smokehouse_BarBQue_opens_in_south_Tulsa/21-17220

KC Smokehouse Bar-B-Que opens in south TulsaPublished: 10/4/2012

KC Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, one of Kansas City’s best-known barbecue restaurants, has opened at 7020 S. Memorial Drive.

Family owned Smokehouse Bar-B-Que opened 25 years ago in Gladstone, Mo. The Tulsa restaurant will be its fifth store and its first outside the Kansas City area. While virtually all Tulsa-area barbecue places offer only pork ribs, Smokehouse Bar-B-Que has both pork and Angus beef ribs. Ribs also are offered in a variety of styles -– spare ribs, short end, long end, baby back, short ribs, back ribs and burnt ends.

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que also offers a line of chicken dishes, steaks, pork chops, catfish, pulled pork, sandwiches, salads and seafood. Among its popular side items are cheesy corn, creamy coleslaw, hickory pit beans and sweet potato fries.

The restaurant is on the west side of Memorial Drive in space that formerly held FireRock Grill & Bar.

Drove by yesterday. Will eat there on Monday.

Mmm....burnt ends.  A KC specialty.  AB's does burnts ends like no one I've ever had (that's Arthur Bryant's).

I guess I'm just not with it.  I think charcoal is for cooking fuel, not eating.  Same thing with "blackened" anything.

So Fire Rock turned into a lump of FAIL, eh?

How long did that take?

Try it.  I think you would like them.  Very nice if done right.

Had dinner there tonight and was very happy.  Had the burnt ends platter
And the cheesey corn was pretty good.  The service was also very good.  I will definitly go
Back.

About 6 months I think.

Let me guess that this restaurant graveyard of a building is one of your outstanding developments.....

Anything that you weren't involved with you would be crying about fat people stuffing their faces and drunks so it HAS to be yours.

Oh SNAP!

Crackle and pop....I have no vested interest in this...they will probably open a second location 4 miles south on Memorial which is the new mega center retail corridor.

Those other bbq haunts don't match the clean and sports oriented KC. Just pointing out that ambiance and cleanliness makes a difference to some of us.

As does location.

Yes, that too.

Haven't gotten a chance to try this yet, but my parents went last night with a large group of relatives from out of town.  Here's their take:

Sauce was good.
Ribs were cool and mushy in spots and super hot (temperature) in others -not good.
Sides were ok, but nothing special.
Other meats were cold and had obviously been sitting out a while.
Brisket was tough and very dry.

My dad swears that the ribs had been microwaved because they were the only meats that came to the table hot, and parts of them were really hot and tough while other parts were very mushy and luke-warm.  I explained that they may have been laying out on a steam table too long.  I can't imagine anyone microwaving ribs!

I encouraged them to give it another try after they've had some time to work out the kinks.  I doubt they will though. 

I'll try as soon as I get the chance.

agreed...the ribs were not that great...Burnco does the best ribs...it's hard to find the kind that slide off the bone....

That's a classic microwave symptom.  I bet he's right.


I'm betting Rib Crib microwaves ribs sometimes, too. 

Ate there on Friday with the wife and kids. Almost no smoke on the meats at all. The sausage I and one kiddo had was barely smoked and it had far more smoke than the brisket my wife had or the pork one of the kids had.

The sauce was ok, nothing special. Think Kraft. I thought it odd that we had to request sauce and when we did the waiter looked at me like I just ran over his dog.

The beans were sickeningly sweet.

The cole slaw was overly sweet as well, but not as bad as the beans. It was terribly runny though.

If they are still open this spring I will be surprised.

I ate there two weekends ago and forgot to post.  Not horrible...noticeably better than Rib Crib.  Pulled pork sandwich.  Meat fair...no smoke flavor to speak of.  Walking in from the parking lot, the smell was amazing, so am a little surprised by not having that taste in the meat.

Sauce ok.  Beans very good.

Cole slaw;  not a big fan of sweet cole slaw normally.  This had enough vinegar so that the sweet was just about perfectly balanced.  Could still tell that it was more sweet than normally like, but it was savory to the point of being very good.  May go back again, and it will be in part due to cole slaw.  Still,... I was thinking through part of the meal, that hey, I coulda had an Albert G's.

O/T but worth sharing I think. My college friends and I go on annual float trip in southern MO every year. A few years back, we went to Huzzah outside of Cuba, MO and we thought we'd splurge and eat dinner in "town" after the float. What was the "special" that night? You guess it, bbq ribs. What did "bbq ribs" turn out to mean? If you guessed "deep fried", you win. One thing was certain with that cooking method, "doneness" was not an issue. I thought one of us complained, but a few of us found it so absurd we just laughed.

Since it's hard to eff up fried catfish, I smartly played it safe and ordered that.