Chad Thimsen
Had a great meal here at my stop in Scottsboro. I was craving bbq and this place hit the spot. I got a bbq pork sandwich with the thick sauce, baked beans, and a tea. I’m not kidding, I was genuinely shocked when I saw the price, it was so unbelievably cheap!! I haven’t had a meal this cheap in a long time. The food tastes good, not the best bbq I’ve ever had, but it’s more than worth the price. Great service, and it feels like an old school joint, which I enjoy. I recommend this place!
… moreChris Blackwell
This place is fantastic. Was traveling for a mini-vaca and kids chose this place based on a google search. We don’t eat chains on vacation…
Food was on point! I had brisket. A little fatty but I like it that way, seasoned well, and moist. Kids had Ribs and cleaned the bones. Wife had turkey and didn’t leave a crumb. If we were local, this would be a weekly stop for us.
… moreDenver Ballard
Brisket is top notch. Pulled pork had great smoky flavor and texture. Potato salad is unique and delicious. Awesome small, cozy atmosphere with friendly staff. Thick sauce is the best. If you like vinegar sauces the others are delicious too.
… moreChasa Fulkerson
9-21-22 *update* added some pictures as well.
Holy Smokes Bbq again.
This time tried the sweet heat vinegar. They also do have a thicker rub but I didn’t realize so didn’t get it to try.
This second time that we went it was Wednesday around 11:30pm. It hadn’t gotten busy yet.
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Some of the best bbq IF you like your bbq vinegary. They have a mild-vinegar and a hot-vinegar. They also have a sweet option.
My husband and I opted for the mild-vinegar. We loved it. I got a small sandwich deal with fries and a drink(Lunch deal). The small sandwiches are pretty small so you may want to get the large if you know you’ll eat a lot. I added coleslaw as well. Get the home cut fries, they are good.
The vinegar sauce we got is a very thin sauce like liquid. It’s not your thick bbq sauce. Your buns may get soggy and fall a part but just grab a fork. I highly recommend this place.
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… moreBailey
Driving back home to Huntsville through the Scottsboro area, I stopped in on a whim, hungry and hoping to support a non-chain restaurant unique to the area. I lucked out with Holy Smokes. I’ve been to a couple barbeque places in Scottsboro, and this is my favorite so far.
The parking lot is a little bumpy / pot-holey so be careful pulling in. I rolled into the restaurant and immediately felt that this was a local-type spot. The man operating the cash register was engaged in a very friendly, familiar conversations with someone eating there. However, he paused his conversation immediately when I walked up to him and taught me about the different sauces they offered. I’m glad he did, because I definitely have bbq sauce preferences, and he steered me in the right direction!
Their fairly large menu is handwritten on the board behind the register, but I opted for a lunch deal they had running – a small pulled pork sandwich with chips and a drink for only $5!! Now granted, it was a small sandwich — if you were starving you’d likely need a little something extra — but for how delicious the sandwich was and for that cheap, you really can’t do much better than that!
The pulled pork itself was really, really good – honestly some of the best bbq I’ve had in north Alabama. Tender, moist, moderately smoky, not too fatty. Really, really good stuff. The sweet sauce the man at the register set me up with was good too, also faintly smoky and tangy on top of the usual sweet tomato flavor. It was a delicious sandwich, and the sweet tea I got was good too, though maybe not quite sweet enough for me.
I plan on coming back with family so we can try some of their other bbq. If the pork stays consistent and the other stuff is even 75% as good, this could definitely be a 5 star spot. Check it out if you’re in the area!
… moreDC
You can trust all these solicited 4-5 star reviews or you can be honest with yourself and realize that as a culture no one really wants to cook anymore, so we bite our tongues and overlook things we shouldn’t. First off, I grew up in public housing plus I’m a fat boy so I can eat any thing but this was next level unacceptable. I phoned in an order here at around 1:15pm on 1/24/24 while sitting outside at the 5 points red-light in traffic. With bad weather moving in, I decided to order two dinners so I wouldn’t have to get out again later. My order consisted of one chicken finger dinner and one hamburger steak dinner. I immediately noticed the menu prices online were not the same but I didn’t say anything. At 1:50pm I came back inside to check on my order because I’d already paid but it still hadn’t been brought out to my truck. I stood around for another ten minutes while the lady searched for honey mustard, ketchup, and H57 I’d requested when calling it in. When I finally get home I see my chicken fingers are burnt. I’m talking as dry and hard as an Alabama Highway in July. Ya boy ate ’em like a champ and shouted out my mama in Heaven knowing she’d be proud of me not forgetting where I came from. I was hungry and hadn’t eaten since yesterday, plus knew I’d never order food here again. I only wish I had taken pics first. Anyways, I’m sharing a photo of what my entire order essentially looked like. If you zoom in you can even see where the chicken fingers were so burnt that they had melted the styrofoam plate. You cannot expect folks not to tell the truth if you send them home with food like this. I live out in the county and with storms moving in I wasn’t driving back out there. Nor do I feel they deserved a phone call. What they did deserve is an honest Google review and here it is. By the way, they didn’t toast my bread and also got my sides wrong on top of sending me home with one set of plasticware for two dinners after me asking multiple times for these said condiments. You can spend your money here if you like but KC’s BBQ is only a few miles away and I have never been disappointed there. They are closed on Wednesdays or I would’ve went there to begin with. Either way, here’s a photo of what’s left of my burnt dinner. Be blessed!
… moreWorkaholic MBS
No complaints, good food especially the BBQ and the Burgers. Not much of a wait and the staff was very friendly.
… moreJune Macica
This place was recommended by friends, as well as KCs on the lake. We planned a BBQ trip for Wednesday.KCs BBQ was closed, so we drove an hour to Holy Smokes. We walked and and she informed us of everything they were out of. I asked following the long list of outs” What DO you have?….she replied… hamburgers. Epic fail for our first BBQ trip in Scottsboro.
I had to give a 1 star for food as it was non existent….but I’m guessing it’s great when they have it!
… moreAmber Lynne
If I could give it zero stars, I would. We hadn’t eaten all day and came in for a quick stop on our 3 hour round trip drive. The beef brisket wasn’t the worst I’ve ever had, but it was mostly fat and $80+ and barely fed 6 people. The French fries were NOT “homemade”—they were school cafeteria frozen bag quality. ALL of the condiments (ketchup, etc.) were “Great Value” Walmart brand. All of the barbecue sauce was TERRIBLE. The “thick” tasted like Walmart brand cheap quality. All of the other vinegar-based barbecue sauces were SO THIN they were like WATER!!! It was impossible to put on a sandwich without having mush for bread. We waited well over 15 minutes for food even though we were the only people there. The staff were INCREDIBLY RUDE and didn’t act like they wanted to be there. It’ll be a long time before I try BBQ out again.
… moreJames Baldwin
I ordered a large BBQ plate to go. The portion of meat was not large, and had hard burnt pieces in it. The sides were micro sized. Literally 2 bites. The beans tasted like canned pork and beans. I didn’t get what I paid for..
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