Holy Smokes Barbeque - Barbecue restaurant in Scottsboro - 108 Tupelo Pike, USA

Didn’t get to try the food. Our boss at the office I work at wanted to buy us lunch and we all wanted to try Holy Smokes. She wanted to pay for the food over the phone, as she is in another state at the moment. The woman who answered the phone said she didn’t know how to take payments over the phone. I thought it was a little strange that it’s 2024 and the person taking Togo orders doesn't know how to take a payment over the phone, so we decided to call back and see if there was another person available that knew how to do that. I called back and asked for someone else or a manager. The woman on the phone told me that there was only one girl who knows how to take payments over the phone and she was not there. might I add she said this very rudely, then put the phone down and had a full conversation with the owner and pretty much was conveying how I was annoying her by "calling back" and asking again. i get this is a small business and we were very excited to try the food but its 2024, work on your customer service skills and learn how to take payments over the phone! They lost good business today.

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.

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. ____________________________________ 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. Tiktok: @chasaeats Insta: @chasafulkerson

I had the pork plate with beans and cole slaw. There was plenty of good food at a good price and I really liked the thick sauce. Pay no attention to the nit picking ninnies elsewhere in the reviews. Were the beans canned? I don't know. The roll that came with the meal was not hand made on-site, so what. Go in and enjoy a good meal, at a good price, served by really good people. I double dog dare ya.

No complaints, good food especially the BBQ and the Burgers. Not much of a wait and the staff was very friendly.

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!

Local BBQ with a simple atmosphere. Food is good. Worth getting off the main highway to find some local color.

Holy Smokes can not be beat! They are so good and all of the staff are so sweet and helpful. Please consider them for your next catering needs also.