The menu is not complicated, but it is generous, and generosity rewards a plan. This is the order we would place if we were sitting at your table — built from the same dishes our regulars come back for, with the prices you will see on the menu today.
Two or more people: start with a platter
Platters are priced per person and arrive stacked. They are the best value on the menu and the fastest way to taste across the smoker, because every platter is a mix rather than a single cut.
- The Holy Trinity — 43 CHF per person. Pork rib, brisket, pulled pork slider. The smallest step in, and the one we recommend first.
- The Carnivore — 49 CHF per person, and our best seller. Adds rib tips and Floridian chicken to the brisket and pulled pork.
- The Cromagnon — 63 CHF per person. Beef rib joins the line-up; this is the platter for people who came for beef.
- The Insatiable — 74 CHF per person. Everything, including fried chicken. Order it when nobody can decide.
One platter per two people plus a couple of sides is a comfortable meal. If your table is mixed — some big eaters, some not — order one platter for the table and let people add sandwiches.
On your own: the sandwich
The sandwiches are the everyday order, and they all come with fries. The Pulled Pork Sandwich (28 CHF) is the best seller for a reason: Carolina Gold sauce, slaw, nothing fighting for attention. The Brisket Sandwich (31 CHF) is the beefier option with arugula, slaw and crispy onions. The PBC — pulled beef and cheddar — costs 32 CHF and is the one to order if you like your BBQ rich. The Fried Chicken Sandwich (30 CHF) is cornflake-battered with our own SMOK’ED sauce and pickles, and the BBQ Veggie Sandwich (25 CHF) is lentils, carrots, Original sauce and slaw — a real vegetarian option, not a token one.
If you are lucky enough to be here while the Bánh Mì is on — smoked pork belly, spicy mayo, pickled daikon and carrot, cucumber, arugula and coriander, 32 CHF — order it. It is a limited-time sandwich and it does not stay on the menu forever.
Build your own plate from the smoker
Everything from the pit is sold by weight, which is how you eat when you already know what you like: beef brisket at 15 CHF per 100 g, beef ribs from 250 g at 15 CHF per 100 g, pulled pork 12 CHF, Floridian chicken 13 CHF with Ed’s tropical salsa, fried chicken 13 CHF, bacon back rib 18 CHF a piece. Two meats and two sides per person is plenty — the sides are not an afterthought here, and mac & cheese (12 CHF) is our most-ordered dish after the platters.
The sides worth spending money on
- Mac & cheese — 12 CHF, best seller, and the correct answer to “what goes with brisket?”
- Cheesy fries — 12 CHF, house cheese sauce, scallions, chilli, crispy onions.
- Cornbread — 7 CHF, add honey butter for 2 CHF. Do it.
- Broccoli salad — 11 CHF, cranberries, red onion, peanuts. The thing that keeps the table from being beige.
Dessert and drinks
The Brownie Royale (13 CHF) — vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream — is the best seller and the right way to finish. The Key Lime Pie Trifle (10 CHF) is the lighter call, and the S’mores Bar (12 CHF) exists because we have a smoker and no self-control. On the drinks side, the homemade iced teas and lemonades (7 CHF) are the family-friendly move; the Old Fashioned (18 CHF) is served in a cherry-wood-smoked glass, which is the most SMOK’ED thing on the drinks list.
Kids, vegetarians and the Wall of Flame
The kids’ menu runs 13–17 CHF with fries, and includes a smaller brisket sandwich, a pulled pork sandwich and mac & cheese. Vegetarians are covered properly: cauliflower wings (18 CHF), nachos (19 CHF), the veggie sandwich, and a good part of the sides. And if you are a chilli person, the Wall of Flame is a shelf of hot sauces from friendly to genuinely rude — start mild, and keep a milkshake nearby.
We are at Rue de la Madeleine 8 in the old town. Book ahead for Friday and Saturday evenings; the room is small and the smoker decides how much brisket there is, not the other way round.
