Sits across old Polonia Airport & The Palace elite housing complex, Smokey Ribs is easy to find, as there's not many store tuck along the street. You just need to watch out for the bright orange neon light on the signboard.
Smokey Ribs offers American BBQ fairs, centered on grilled items such as ribs and steaks, US Meat. It features wood & brick dominated decor, low lit lighting, and vintage posters over its wall. Homey welcoming ambiance.
Starters
The Onion Ring is the star of the night. It has crunchy and flavorful batter outside, and sweet moist onion inside, you simply want to MARRY them. But heck, it need more generous helping of the thousand-island like dipping sauce. It's so good that 1 small bowl is not enough, have to lick it clean!
Salad is kinda dry, again, more dressing can certainly help. Veggies are fresh and cheese gratings are tasty tho.
Mains
Pork ribs are tender, fell off the bone, and well seasoned. It came with equally good coleslaw, and choice of sides like mash potato, fries, etc, - we chose baked beans.The coleslaw, bro, is possibly the best coleslaw I've ever tasted, crunchy veggies, runny and tasty dressing. Baked beans has slight spiciness to it, fits in Medan's taste bud well.
Unfortunately, the accompanying sauce is kinda too salty. It overpowers the meat if you dip into it. So I prefer not to use the sauce at all. Adding ingredients honey, brown sugar syrup, apple puree and cinnamon could help awaken the natural sweetness and flavor to the sauce.
But still, good job on the Pork Ribs Dish, Chef!
Oklahoma BBQ sausage is okay, nothing much to be bragged about. The sauce is also too strong. Good thing it came with milder cream of chicken soup as side, which balances the saltiness - we ate the soup after finishing the sausage because the soup came late.
Beverage
Unfortunately, beverage items were not appealing, we ended up ordering hot lemon tea and lime juice, and to my surprise, they serve off-the-supermarket-shelf-midlow-teabag (can't mention the brand - don't want to get blackmailed) for their hot tea, and too-simple-looking-and-tasting lime juice. Dude, for such a respectable restaurant like Smokey Ribs, surely you can do much better than this.
Made me rubbed my forehead! Yes Jackie, just like you...
My suggestion, they should try using tea leaves, turn it into their own powerful mocktail, and put more twist on the lime juice. The ambience is perfect to chill with mates on Saturday night. Certainly enough, a great cocktail or mocktail will light up the night!
Prepare to spend IDR 150K++ per pax. Expensive, but it justifies the quality ingredients and tasty food. Good thing doesn't come cheap - worth it well.
Prepare to spend IDR 150K++ per pax. Expensive, but it justifies the quality ingredients and tasty food. Good thing doesn't come cheap - worth it well.
Well Done
Tender Meat
Good Service
Onion Ring
Can be improved
Sauces for meat pretty salty
More sauce for Onion Ring
Limited Beverage items
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