Barbeque (abbreviated BBQ) is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal and may include application of a marinade or basting sauce to the meat. The term as a noun can refer to foods cooked by this method, to the cooker itself, or to a party that includes such food. The term is also used as a verb for the act of cooking food in this manner. Barbecue is usually cooked in an outdoor environment heated by the smoke of wood or charcoal, or with propane and similar gases. Restaurant barbecue may be cooked in large brick or metal ovens specially designed for that purpose.
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Welcome to Smitty's Smokehouse
Smitty's Smokehouse
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Smitty's Smokehouse & BBQ Joint is at 440-442 Valley Brook Road, Lyndhurst; 201-460-3661 or smittys bbqjoint.com.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY
It took Andrew Grett six months to renovate a luncheonette and create Smitty's Smokehouse & BBQ Joint in Lyndhurst -- a casual, nostalgic-feeling neighborhood restaurant.
It took two months more to do it all again, after a fire accidentally set by a roofer damaged the restaurant's interior on the sixth day of business. It finally reopened earlier this month.
"If you're going to do something, you want it done perfectly," Brett said. "We did the whole place over."
Grett's passion for barbecue had been smoldering for 20 years, ever since he visited Kentucky and sampled true barbecue. As his career took off, he worked in Manhattan restaurants and, most recently, the Tewksbury Inn in Oldwick, but smoking vegetables and the occasional piece of meat just wasn't the same.
Now he's thrilled to be doing the real thing -- pulled pork, brisket, ribs -- smeared with dry rub so it forms what barbecuers call bark, smoked with apple, cherry and mesquite wood and bathed in his homemade sweet and spicy barbecue sauces. "I want to educate customers on rubs, on bark, on what smoke does to meat," he said.
In time, you'll see sauces expand to include pomegranate and blueberry flavors.
For barbecue purists, the restaurant offers the $99 "Smitty's Pig Out," with two dozen wings, two racks of ribs, a smoked chicken, 10 ears of corn and heaps of pulled pork, brisket, coleslaw, french fries, baked beans. For the uninitiated, the menu also offers burgers, sandwiches, salads and fish.
-- Bill Pitcher
