It's a bit out of the way, but worth the detour and drive for good bbq. All bbq restaurants have the issue that the food takes hours and hours of prep. It can't be served fresh off the smoker to the diner. There's no way to schedule it.\r
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Holy Smoke reheats most of their meats on the grill with a slather of a mild runny sauce to keep the meat moist as it reheats. I prefer a dry rib and don't want my rib slathered with sauce until I put the sauce on. However, given the limitations of bbq to order, this was a very good rib. Lots of bbq sauces to choose from, it was easy to find one that matched your taste preferences. Holy Smoke does the grill reheat better than say Famous Dave's who CHAR and BURN every darn rib that reheats on their grill. \r
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The chicken was also heated on the grill. Smoked chicken is tricky. Cooked like ribs or shoulder, it comes out soft and mushy with icky rubbery skin. Cooked hotter, the skin and flesh firm up, but the skin is a loss when held for service. So the grill re-heat really crisped the skin of this chicken. The chicken was done right in the first place. Nice smokey flavor and flavor throughout the meat, not just at the skin. Firm, not mushy flesh and nice crispiness to the skin. The chicken with the white bbq sauce had the right balance of heat too. \r
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Pulled pork was next. No grill or steamtable so I think a microwave was involved. Still, it was a good mix of bark and inner meat which paired well with many of the different barbecue sauces. It was served moist which was a plus. Too many bbq joints in Utah serve a dry and tough pulled pork from sitting in a steamtable. \r
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Lunch business picked up while I was eating and it became pretty busy. You order at the counter and you're on your own for service after that. That's Ok. Not fancy or fine dining, but it works. The menu is diverse for a bbq joint. Sausage and sandwiches. Pulled chicken or pork, plenty of sides too. The sides I sampled were nothing special but not objectionable.
Pros: high grade barbecue cooked on the premises
Cons: out of the way
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