Of all the things we did with my family while they were in town, eating at some great restaurants was probably my favorite thing. After all, Charleston is known for its wonderful food so we had to show it off. While they were here, we covered a wide variety of food genres including seafood, lowcountry fare, burgers, mexican and breakfast food. But we started it all off with great barbecue!
John and I discovered Smoky Oak, less than a mile from our house, the week before my family came. Its great BBQ sandwich and large selection of beer on tap (similar to Oklahoma's McNellie's) has already made it a regular on our restaurant rotation.
Not the best picture of my pulled pork sandwich, but you get the point. The mac n' cheese is also delicious!
One of the South Carolina beers I tried was Son of a Peach. That's right, peach beer. Sounds weird but was actually pretty tasty!
Another interesting thing we've discovered at Smoky Oak is the variety of BBQ sauces. I always thought red tomato-based BBQ sauce was BBQ sauce. But it turns out different regions use different kinds of sauces on their barbecue. Smoky Oak has all the sauces, so you can try each one.
Turns out a mustard sauce is the main BBQ sauce in South Carolina. It's actually really good! Much better than the plain old vinegar and pepper sauce that's apparently popular in North Carolina. Somehow I lived in Alabama for a year and never figured out that white sauce is the popular BBQ sauce there.
After trying many of these sauces at Smoky Oak, I read a great article on the sauce debate in Garden in Gun magazine. Great magazine by the way! You can read the article here.
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