
Address and Contact Information
Address: 24 Marine Dr, Margate CT9 1DH, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 7481 344328
Website: https://www.smokeandco.co.uk/
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PS – all of the food was incredible!
We were stuffed and went home with the leftovers! Perfect!
So I booked a table, with OpenTable, and put in the box that it was to celebrate a Birthday. We arrived on a freezing cold Sunday afternoon and were initially sat in the middle of the restaurant. It was cold in there with other guests still wearing their coats and woolly hats. We asked if we could move table and were luckily sat by a radiator. Just a shame nobody had thought to bleed it! There was a very small electric heater behind us that did raise the temperature slightly.
I’d already chosen my meal from the menu on the website so ordering was quite simple. I asked for a Guinness but was informed they had run out!!!
I ordered a sharing platter for 2, with hot pineapple and hot smokey BBQ sauces and a side of burnt pork ends. A roast dinner with beef brisket was also requested. The food was served quite quickly and we tucked in. The platter consisted of smoked chicken, beef brisket, chorizo sausage, pork ribs, cajun fries, smoked mac n cheese and pit beans. Part way through I grabbed a menu from another table as I was sure something was missing and I was right, the pulled pork and pulled beef wasn’t there. I asked the server and was told he’d bring it, no apology though.
The brisket was really good, moist and full of flavour, sausage was good and both the pulled meats and burnt pork ends too. The chicken was a little dry but certainly still edible. The mac n cheese was fantastic. The ribs we’re definitely over cooked and lacked meat on the bones and the cajun fries had a severe lack of flavour, so was a little disappointed.
The roast was definitely enjoyed, plenty of veg and once again delicious brisket. The large sausage was well flavoured and tasted great.
Portion sizes we’re more than enough and we left absolutely stuffed. Please note there is a discretionary 12.5% added to the bill, please guys this is not the USA so why do restaurants have to copy. It was pointless adding in the original booking that it was for a celebration as this was not acknowledged by anyone. Saying that I’d definitely return for another smokey meat fest but maybe wait till the air temperature increases.
Very good service from James, very friendly and answered any questions.
The food was great, pricey but worth it. The meat falls straight off the bone, and is lovely and tender. Very accommodating to changes made to the food.
You get a mint at the end which is a nice touch
Our host at the local Airbnb recommended this place , saying it was American style barbecue… Which was appealing/something different…
I popped in earlier in the day to ask if it was dog friendly and about booking a table, the restaurant manager I assume said yes but you’ll have to sit outside,in a curt way….
Anyway, that didn’t deter us and later that evening we came down fairly early for dinner around 6-6:30pm…
I popped my head in the door and we were directed outside by the same manager, the restaurant itself was 1/2 full. To our regret, it was freezing outside with a wind coming right up the beach/boardwalk.
Not to mention to local alcoholics screaming and shouting under the arch’s further down the road , this certainly put a dampener on the evening ahead.
A few minutes later, the pretty waitress popped out to take our drinks, and wanted to know if we wanted to order. We asked for a couple of minutes, however the drinks appeared to take quite awhile to come out, then when we place the order after about 15 minutes to our surprise, the entrees came out the same time as the main course. The waitress mentioned that’s how they do it here.
What was funny as she was freezing herself and wanted to get back inside asap.
She also forgot the glass of wine which I had ordered for the main course , halfway through the meal that appeared….
The food was nice, although by the time I got to the entree after eating the main course and the portion of chips they were cold due from the howling breeze…. Which was disappointing. The wife enjoyed her main course.
But the waitress asked if we wanted some desert, but we declined as we were freezing….
During the meal, local homeless people were doing a performance a few yards down the road, which didn’t help either….
All in all the food wasn’t bad the service okay? However, the ambience on sitting on the street in the freezing Sunday evening breeze basically put us off.
Perhaps next time we come when we are in town without a dog and sit inside…
The meal with the two of us £89 .
So you could argue what that would cost in London….
We went to the pub around the corner for a stiff brandy to warm up in front of there open fire….