We showed up at dinner and the meat looked like it had been sitting out all day. It tasted like it too. The customer service was... lack luster. No smiles. No greeting. Could hardly hear the person taking our order. Bad experience read more

This was such a disappointing meal amidst so many other great snacks and dining throughout the day. The line was ridiculous and snakes around the building and a little outside and the food was absolutely subpar - think ice cold steak chunks on a salad for $18. Such a letdown in an otherwise incredible theme park. read more

Rivertown Smokehouse - the menu and lights - Smokehouse Near Me - Branson, Missouri

20$ half slab ribs old dried up leather no sauce everything was old and gross don't go here !!!

We stopped for a late lunch with friends after we had wandered around the park all morning. The food smelled delicious and we waited in line to place our order. There were choices of salads, entrees and sandwiches as well as a kids menu. I locked in on a triple pork sandwich which was pulled pork, bacon and smoked sausage. The sandwich came with one side, of either Mac and cheese, tater tots, which were regular and sweet potato, or baked beans. I chose the Mac and cheese. Once you got your food, you had to stand in a long line to pay for everything. We waited at least 10 minutes, so by then everything wasn't hot anymore. Truly disappointing! There is plenty of seating outside, and that's where there is silverware, napkins, sauces, etc. My sandwich was very good, although I had to add lots more sauce. Like I mentioned, everything sat too long, but the Mac and cheese was good, but would have been excellent had it been hot. Would eat here again if the wait wasn't so long to pay for your food. read more

Rivertown Smokehouse - a display of barbecue sauces - Smokehouse Near Me - Branson, Missouri

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Atmosphere - MEH. After all, it is a amusement park restaurant. The one redeeming quality is that the outdoor seating area is partially shaded. Service - Good. This is a counter service restaurant, so there is not much service involved. However, I will note that the tables were kept clean as was the utensil, condiment area. Food - Very Good. I had the barbecue half chicken dinner. It came with two sides and I opted for 2 servings of the Mac n Cheese. The chicken portion was ample. It was cooked perfectly and tasted great. The barbecue sauce was very good as well. The Mac n Cheese was creamy and flavorful. Overall Value - Very Good. As an amusement park restaurant goes, this is a pretty darn good one. I would definitely recommend this restaurant for dinner when enjoying the park. read more

Rivertown Smokehouse - a woman behind the counter - Smokehouse Near Me - Branson, Missouri

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I have cooked a lot of barbeque....a lot. I have eaten a lot of barbeque....a lot. This is the worst bbq I've ever had, ever. It is hard to even refer to this as bbq to be honest. We have a lot of kids so we had a fairly big order. Full rack of ribs, 2 brisket plates, pulled pork plate, burnt ends salad, and a couple chicken strips kid meals. The full rack was $28, the plates were about $20, salad was $15, and the kids meals were around $8-$10 (Can't remember exactly). I will start with the good since it won't take long. The Mac and Cheese as well as the beans were pretty good. They weren't anything special but they were still good and on par with what I would expect at a place like this. Probably similar to something you would get at Rib Crib. The bad...I don't know where to start. So I guess I'll start with the one that was just an outright lie. The "burnt end" salad. I introduced my daughter to burnt ends about a year ago. I don't always make them, but when I do she never wanted to try them. I finally talked her into it recently and she loves them now so when she saw the burnt end salad, two things she loves, she was sold. Well, it was a salad...because there was lettuce. But there were no burnt ends. There was some grey cubes of ice cold meat...not like room temp been sitting out meat...ice cold like it just came out of a fridge. I figured she was just being picky so I cut off some of my rib meat and put it on her salad and took the gray mystery meat and put it on my plate. *It was disgusting* About that time my other daughter than had gotten the brisket plate pushed it away and said she was done after she had eaten about a half slice. That's when I recognized where the "Burnt End" meat had come from. The brisket was a dull gray, absolutely no smoke ring whatsoever, and the fat wasn't even rendered. It appeared to have a bark, but I'm not even sure what to make of it because there was no seasoning flavor to it at all. I'm a SPG purist but I couldn't even make any of that out. It tasted like someone put a brisket cut in an oven, unseasoned, at 425 degrees until the outside was black. The salad meat appeared to be cubes of the same....I suspect now that it was made from yesterdays "brisket" that was cubed and put in the fridge to be rebranded as "Burnt ends" and thrown on a salad. I should have been immediately suspicious of the ribs. When I ordered them, the guy pulled them out of a steam pan with some tongs and I could see water pouring off of them. I almost called him off at that point to switch to the sausage plate but I had promised the kids ribs (I usually eat half the rack and parcel out the other half to them) and figured maybe they wouldn't be too bad. Again, I was wrong. They would rank slightly higher than the brisket but I think it's only because pork is harder to mess up than beef. Have you ever been to someone's house who has discovered how you can "cook" ribs in the instant pot or in a slow cooker? That's what this tasted like. The meat was mushy, unseasoned, and once again no evidence that it had ever seen a lick of smoke at all. I think whatever process is used on the ribs was the same as the pulled pork. Imagine throwing a pork butt into a slow cooker, unseasoned, and turning it on. That's pretty much it. The two pork dishes were somewhat salvageable by just slathering them in bbq sauce. The salad and the brisket, however, were not. I tried to eat them because I didn't want to pay $130 for food to get thrown away but even I couldn't choke it down. Oh I said I'd put the best thing first and I guess I completely forgot about one thing. The chicken strips. They definitely looked like they came right out of a Sam's Club frozen chicken strip bag but both the kids that got those hoovered them down and asked for more. So I guess, if you're going to try this place out, stick with the kids chicken strips. Oh yeah, the rolls have the taste and texture of a magic eraser. read more

Rivertown Smokehouse - The "Burnt Ends" are after I tried to rescue them by coating them in bbq sauce. The gray brisket pieces are in the top left. - Smokehouse Near Me - Branson, Missouri

First time to Silver Dollar City! Many other reviewers captured the experience at Rivertown Smokehouse perfectly. Reasonably decent food for a theme park restaurant. Yes, my food wasn't quite hot, yes it was expensive, but it was decent bbq and I'm glad I tried it. Now that my curiosity has been satisfied, I probably would try another eatery next time we visit Silver Dollar City. read more

Not a great smokehouse. The smoked turkey sandwich looked delicious. I ordered the smoked turkey salad and it was horrible. Lots of lettuce and 4 cherry tomatoes and some corn relish thrown in. The turkey that was on it was the scrap turkey most people would throw away. It was hard and dry and flavorless. Overcooked part of the turkey. Service was slow and the register was worked at a snails pace. The outdoor dining area was nice with a big fan and a view of Mystic River. The tables were kept clean. But for the money we spent for 7 people it was NOT worth it. read more

Super expansive for the little amount of food. The ckiken testes like kerosene to me. My kids chiken tenders was fine.