Smoke

3/5/11 Dallas, TX So there's bad news and there's good news. Which do you want first? Ok the GOOD news of course! Well the good news is that nobody got seriously sick or died during this past visit to the fancy-pants, quasi-bbq Dallas establishment called Smoke. The bad news is that the food now sucks, or at least the pork chop does. It would have been one thing if it was just a shitty pork chop, like something at Golden Corral, but they didn't even bother to cook this thing all the way through. When I discovered the raw center, I released the pork back into the wild to pursue a 2nd chance at making something of itself.

In all fairness, not everything on every menu at every establishment is great. I know that. YOU know that, but this pork chop has been recommended by waitstaff ALL THREE TIMES I've been there! If you have Filet Mignon on the menu, and a bag of shit, why the hell would you recommend the bag of shit to customers? The attempt was made to dress this thing up with some sort of fruity sauce with these brussels sprout balls or something, but none of it made up for the chop itself with it's jerky-like outside and a plastic center, sort of like a reverse Joan Rivers (jerky inside, plastic outside right?). Whatever, that wasn't as bad as this food so Smoke gets an F. As in F that place.

I still love your ribs though, Smoke but we are definitely on a "break".