Smokey and the Pig — Restaurant in North Carolina

This place has been on my list forever and while I like bbq, I wasn't feeling ribs today. Then I saw they have nachos - I love nachos.

This place is teeny tiny, barely big enough for three people to stand inside to order. Plan to get your order to go.

The staff is all super friendly and didn't rush me despite the line forming to order.

I ordered the nachos with the works: white cheese sauce (YUM), shredded cheddar, cilantro, kidney and black beans, corn, jalapenos, sour cream, tomatoes, salsa, and green onions, and a generous helping of pulled pork. For $10, a solid portion and a solid deal.

I also ordered the mac and cheese because I wasn't about to walk out of a bbq place without trying their mac. Glad I did, it's good.

First of all the chips are fine. They're not gonna win any awards but they're standard - solid crunch, seasoned, and didn't shatter when hefting toppings.

K, now here's why I'm thrilled. This dish isn't NACHOS this is a TACO SALAD and it's a GREAT taco salad. I love a taco salad even more than nachos and I'm always on the hunt for a good taco salad. Next time I have a hankering, I'll pop into the grocery store for some romaine and I'll order the nachos without the chips. Bada bing bada boom, stellar taco salad.

The pork totally holds up and is tender and flavorful in a sea of other ingredients. A+ y'all.

I took one photo of the nachos in the to-go container and another with the nachos plated.

The mac and cheese is white cheddar mac and cheese so the color in that...

We ordered 17 plates for a staff meeting with our entire hotel. Our gm wanted something different than everyone else also the drive to the place is 15 mins others and back we placed the order about an hour prior to the meeting. We had a list of all orders read every order out for each of the 17 plates. We get there they were finishing up myself and my housekeeping executive were picking up the order. They offered to carry the food to the car we had almost 6 bags of food. Mind you it was super hot we waited drove picked up we get back setting up the break room our GM plate is missing vthe most important man's meal I call them very upset because we spent a hundred bucks well over and tipped 35 bucks for y'all to leave out our managers meal. I refered back to my list I still had and the manager said we will have someone deliver it. THANKS 🙏🥺🥺 SO MUCH they bring the plate but nothing extra.vthe meats are good but their sides are horrible everyone disliked the food so all that for 17 people to say this food sucks. That watery Mac n cheese gross. We also took them off our best places to eat board at the hotel. Sorry but the food...

Pulled Pork, Brisket, and Chicken

All the meats were very good......especially the Brisket. You could taste the smoke flavor in the meats. The Brisket was smoked to perfection. (The Brisket is hiding up under the red and white paper..... sorry).

I ordered the hot sauce to use on all the meats. The sauce was in good addition but was not hot in my opinion.

Sweet Potato Crunch - Very flavorful. Nice mix of cinnamon and crunch (nuts)

Baked Beans - Not a fan, needs work. Taste straight out the can without sprucing it up.

I didn't get the chance to try to hush puppies because they weren't done cooking and I didn't have time to wait any longer.

I'll have to add this to the list of top five barbecue joints in Asheville.  #GratuityAdded

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