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Smokestak
• BBQ• Shoreditch
About the restaurant
After years spent perfecting the art of Southern-style barbecue at Street Feast events and festivals, Scottish chef David Carter took his Smokestak brand to a permanent site in Shoreditch a few years ago and hasn’t looked back since. He won plaudits for his interpretation of classic and new-school meat dishes alongside inventive fish and vegetable dishes.
Smokestak’s dining room is all about post-industrial chic, with bare brick and exposed vents, and much of the action taking place on an enormous bespoke charcoal grill and smoker. Counter dining is available for those wanting to get up-close and personal with the live-fire cooking.
A few of the classic Smokestak dishes – like the brisket bun with pickled chilli – are still represented on Smokestak’s menu, but the restaurant allowed Carter to experiment with grilled and smoked fish and vegetable dishes too. Dishes are always full of intense flavour and more than a touch of smoke from the grill.
Reviews from the Web
Critic reviews
The Infatuation
We get the feeling the architect’s mood board centred around the word STEAMPUNK crossed out and replaced with SMOKEPUNK and, you have to say it’s a successful realisation of this.
The Guardian
For crunch and tang, pickles make a welcome addition, as do a revamped chimichurri and the classic barbecue sauce
Standard
Smokestak chivvies in what I envisage to be the era of the grown-up barbecue. In fact, let’s chuck out the B-word. Smokestak is about stylish wood-smoking with good, on-point service.
Time Out
A big bricks-n-mortar smokehouse from the cult street food vendors.
The Nudge
The menu, born in the charcoal grill and wood-burning smoker, includes some Smokestak favourites (USDA brisket bun with pickled red chilli, thick cut pork ribs with pickled cucumber), as well as a few tasty newcomers, like smoked girolles & beef dripping toast; crispy beef shin & anchovy mayo; and coal-roasted sweet potato, smoked ricotta & bacon.
- 35 Sclater St
- E1 6LB
- London
- +44 20 3873 1733
- Visit website
