Be prepared to switch your choices during queens fest cause they ran out of a lot of the good choices early in the night!!!
City Smoke sent me an email prior to restaurant week that peaked my interest so I saved it. The email was advertising a chicken dinner for 2 during restaurant week. It sounded like a great idea after my other restaurant week plans for that night fell thru. So I quickly made a reservation through open table. However once we sat down for our dinner that night I was presented with a Queens Fest menu that boasted most of their menu items for a $30 price. You could pick an appetizer, entree and dessert but the dinner from the email was no where to be found. The Queens fest deal allowed us to try a lot of their menu items so we opted for that and never even asked about the email deal.
Sad thing was that once we started ordering a few of the better choices on the menu they had ran out of. We were able to wait for them to get more of the smoked wings but we weren't able to try the sticky ribs or the other ribs on the combo platter. I was really bummed.
I did really enjoy the lamb flatbread and the brisket. The grits, Mac and cheese and the roasted cauliflower were also great side item choices.
One other sour note for the night is they charge for extra sauce!!! Y'all know that's my pet peeve. We must of ordered one too many ranches cause we got a nice 1.30 charge for 2 RANCHES. But we ordered 2 orders of kids chicken tenders with fries and 3 orders of the smoked wings so idk when we got out of hand with sauce but we did according to them.
Overall I'm not so sure I would return to City Smoke. It took a really long time for our food to come out (we had school age kids with us and they started to fall asleep) and I was really disappointed by missing out on the ribs. Granted I know restaurant week is a very busy time but we have an early reservation on a Monday.
City Smoke
100 N Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 28202
Monday January 21, 2018 7:30pm