Barbecue in Kingston upon Thames

Smok'd

Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

What started as The Grey Horse became Smok'd — a multi-award-winning barbecue pub on Richmond Road that runs an open kitchen, a whisky bar, and Ram Jam Records, a live music venue at the rear. The kitchen smokes, roasts, chars and grills in the modern British style, turning out beef rib and burgers daily from noon until ten. They've won Ribstock, which is not nothing, and they've since opened other locations — but this is where it began. The bar stays open past the kitchen most nights, later still on Fridays and Saturdays. Takeaway is available if you'd rather eat elsewhere. It's a pub that happens to do barbecue properly, or perhaps the other way around — either way, the beef rib settles the question.