Smokey Joe BBQ

Terrible… just terrible.
This guy claims to have done over 1300 catering events with only 6 complaints from ‘entitlement folks’. Tell me then why his website has only a ‘praise’ section where you cannot even leave testimonials AND he has an anti Unilocal symbol on his home page? I truly wish I’d noticed this BEFORE I contacted him to cater my wedding. I did not complain when he was nearly an hour late, but his misrepresentation of the services he intended to provide was unreal.
When I stopped in at the Rib Shack in Fallbrook (where he bbq’s for someone else’s restaurant. should’ve been an indicator, I know…) to deliver payment, he sent us with a great sampler of meats. We were thrilled with the quality. All the sauces that he provided (and promised to bring an abundance of for the event) were very tasty. Even the rolls were wonderful. After that, I was sure we’d made the right choice.
Unfortunately, that was not the quality we received at the actual event. We ordered ribs, brisket & chicken for 100. He brought far less of the brisket and ribs than I had anticipated, and a significantly larger portion of burnt, dry chicken quarters. The ribs weren’t even cut up! I’m told one of my guests had to cut them. Several of my guests stated that while one side of the chicken was burnt, the other side was actually undercooked! So, needless to say, some were hesitant to eat it. Since that was the majority of what we received, some people didn’t even get to eat, including the groom’s mother! If that wasn’t bad enough, he brought ONE little squirt bottle of sauce for 100 PEOPLE! This, after he said ‘and lots of sauce of course’ in every conversation. Even the children were begging for sauce because their meat was dry. I was embarrassed. Lastly, rather than the dinner rolls provided in the sample, he brought sliced in half grocery store sandwich rolls.
I had THE PERFECT un’entitled’ wedding EVER at a campground. BUT the bbq (that we should have just done ourselves) was an overpriced disaster!
DO NOT EMPLOY THIS MAN!

No Health Permit, No business License, No Insurance,
No Thanks