Sliced smoked brisket with a dark bark, resting on pink butcher paper

Cooked low. Sliced to order. Gone by close.

Every cut goes on the pit at four in the morning and comes off when it's ready, not when it's convenient. Walk up to the counter, point at what you want, and we'll slice it in front of you.

Today's pit

    We smoke a set amount each morning. When something runs out, we cross it off here, so check before you drive over.

    Catering

    Office lunches, graduations, rehearsal dinners, and one memorable funeral where Grandpa's friends asked for seconds.

    We cater for 20 to 300 people. Pans come in half and full sizes, with plates, sauce, bread and serving spoons. Give us 48 hours, or a week for anything over 100.

    • Half pan of meat feeds about 15. Full pan feeds about 30.
    • Pickup is free. Delivery in the metro is $40.
    • We'll set up and serve for events over 75 people.

    Since 1994

    A black offset smoker built from an old tank, beside a stack of split wood
    Old Bess, the 500-gallon smoker Murl welded out of a propane tank. She still cooks every brisket.

    Murl Gentry spent 31 years driving a city bus, and every weekend of them in his backyard with a smoker he'd welded himself. When he retired in 1994, he rented the old shoe repair shop on Holloway and put a hand-painted sign in the window.

    He's gone now, but the smoker, the rub and the rule about not cutting the brisket until it's ready are all still here. His granddaughter Tasha runs the counter. Her husband Andre runs the pit, and he's usually there by four.

    Tasha & Andre

    Come eat

    Counter service, 40 seats, picnic tables out back when the weather's right.

    3109 Holloway Ave
    Kansas City, MO 64111

    Free lot behind the building. Enter from 31st Street.

    (816) 555-0142
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