text: City Smoke kind of goes up in flames We showed up around pm on a Friday night and our first clue should have been that the restaurant was almost empty However we were hungry so we threw caution to the wind grabbed two bowls of peanuts and were shown a table After deciding not to throw our shells on the floor we perused the menu As a place that quickly establishes itself as a BBQ joint the menu seems disjointed oysters on the half she will and peel eat shrimp comingle with sliders on the appetizer menu and shrimp oyster poboys are listed above the omnivores pork chicken and brisket sandwich options But the true blasphemy surfaced once the meal arrived nnYall the mac cheese was NOT GOOD Grainy tasteless and altogether subpar macaroni and cheese is unacceptable in a BBQ restaurant And the fried okra was overly salty without packing much flavor At the end of the day it does not matter how great the meat is at a BBQ joint and keep in mind City Smokes meat is nothing to write home about if your sides are not stellar you might as well shut down shop Between the four of us we ordered the brisket rotisserie chicken and pulled pork but no one was overly complimentary of the meatsplosion on the table We had three sauce options one was vineagar based and the other two tomatobased ones tasted almost exactly the samennOur service was okay but I think that is mostly attributed to the fact that our server only had one or two other tables to attend to Maybe City Smoke burned brightly at one point but the flame has died