OakWood Smokehouse & Grill

Many people whose tastes I respect like this place, but I was unimpressed. The ribs were a bit tough and had only the mildest smokiness to them. Also, the sauce was overly sweet. Considering that there is a fabulous place only a block away, I will not be going here often.

nothing special to be had here, i never knew a restaurant to cut ribs horizontally so you appear to be getting a full rack when in reality you got half a rack just cut the opposite way lol its a good deal but dont jerk me around with your fake crap, thats not a full rack of ribs, as clever as you are to serve them like that lol

Stopped at this «smokehouse» we’re from out of town. Does this look like turkey from a good bbq joint? If I wanted some slices of budding meat and some Kraft bbq sauce, I should have stayed home

Great ribs and special price on Wednesday! Mac & Cheese needs improvement. Cole Slaw excellent as was the sweet potato! I give it a 4.5

Great food. I have been here several times always delicious. I am using them for catering this weekend and they have been over the top helpful with fulfilling the order!

Good food nothing crazy order the dinner with two choices of meat. Got one on my plate. Mac n cheese as the side not ready good couldn’t have been homemade. Never got a refill on my drink nice waitress though.

Of the four locations Lady Lake, Eustis, Leesburg & Clermont is the TOP one. My wife and I have been going there since they opened. We travel from Ocala, FL. The Best Baby Backs from here to Texas. Have never had a bad meal at any location. If you ever have a problem they will correct it or comp your meal. The only problem is this week they stopped serving baked potatoes and I think they will have to rethink this in the future as I know a lot of persons have ordered them. The sweet potatoes are great. One thing I don’t understand is when you bring up this location on Unilocal it only shows the other three???
By the way some people think this is a chain but its not, as it’s a family business. Both Baily and Mason who I first met in the old Leesburg location ran the operation for years. I think Baily runs most of it now???

Hubby and I went today we had pull pork sandwich and he had a beef sandwich. .Hubby never says nothing but today he said this is so dry and cold I said mine too. We won’t be going back that makes the third time in the past few months.

I love Oakwood! Great BBQ at a reasonable price. Try the fried green beans, so yummy! Best place in town for ribs!

For a chain BBQ place it’s not bad. Better then Sonnys for sure. The flavor of the BBQ isn’t to bad. Just not out of the park yummy. Not at all award winning by any means. But, decent never the less. I wouldn’t call it a craving place like others in the area.
The sides are decent. When they where available or «in season». Good variety when they are there. The selection of meats is decent nothing out of the ordinary that makes them stand out.
It’s not a typical BBQ joint it’s more along the lines of a Chillies or Friday’s the décor. Think maybe the food needs as much attention as the décor.

I love this place! The ribs are always really good and I’ve never had any service issues here. Not much to add, I just really like this place!

Good ribs unless the place is packed I’ve been here twice first time food was awesome ribs were tender fall off the bone and delicious second visit not so good ribs were tough and in the dry side. service was great I mentioned the ribs not being as good as the first visit and they brought out another full rack unfortunately that rack was dry too! haven’t been back since but may try again one day, their side dishes are great! a good deal but just another chain restaurant which can be a hit or miss.

We are fairly new here in Florida, coming from a suburb of Chicago. We were told to try Oakwood Smokehouse as we were looking for some good restaurants in the area. We had their bbq rib special and were hooked! The ribs were perfectly cooked and covered in a sweet bbq sauce. The meat was so tender it just fell off the bone. They serve a great meal for a great price! It is definitely THE place to go for ribs. You won’t be disappointed. We have been back multiple times and the ribs are always great and the service excellent!

The lunch service was «Great», the food was even «BETTER «. I had the half rack of baby back ribs were wonderful and my wife had the pork plate with 2 sides. Finger licking GOOD… We will return soon… A +++++

Order to go. Two different burgers and fried pickle appetizer.
Burgers wee both cooked correctly. One rare, one medium rare.
Added onion rings to one order. Crispy and hot.
Blue cheese burger nice amount of blue along with black pepper. Packed with lettuce tomato and pickle wrapped separate so bun doesn’t get soggy. Nice touch.
Their fried pickle chips are a favorite. Crisp outside with good dill pickle chips inside. A southern favorite.
Ordering fast and easy– dedicated cashier for ‘To Go’ orders. 10 minutes and we were on our way. Very tasty. We will return.

Best restaurant anywhere (if you like baby back ribs). Great fall off the bone ribs. Best lima beans (yes, I said lima beans). Good appetizers. Good sweet tea and arnold palmer (tea and lemonade combined)

Have eaten here no less than four times and the food and service is consistently superior. BBQ is above average. The black eyed peas however were exceptionally awful. This place is far superior to Sonnys.
Last visit the waitress ran out to our car to give me the doggie bag I forgot. That’s awesome!

One star as actually I’m really quite miffed.
Advertised in lobby: «FULL RACK RIBS @12.99!!»
OKAY no matter how you slice it, what I was served is NOT a FULL rack.
Just because you serve up the full LENGTH of a rack, DON’T make it a full rack; WHEN YOU CUT THE RIBS IN HALF!
What a dishonest JOKE!
The rib bones were only 2.5″ long folks and were obviously cut in half — lengthways.
OakWood Smokehouse– YOU NEED TO REASSESS YOUR INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES.
Fuc the food review– welcome to my «Roll the Loaded Dice! «listing.
Why didn’t I ask to see a manger and work this BS out?
Sometimes the drama just isn’t worth screwing up a good dinner date with friends we have not seen in a long time. Why bring on all the potential bad Karma to our meeting over $ 13 of deceptive food advertising?
SHAME SHAME —
American culture needs to rekindle more sensitivity to this worthy virtue less we become all the more less and less civilized and honorable as a country.

I usually get the salmon dinner, and the Onion rings are there best side, very good.
The onion rings are there best side, you usually have to pay a dollar more for them but its worth it. It comes with there secret sauce which is very good. Try the onion rings if you go here.

Went here for lunch with work staff during my training week.
Ordered the sliced beef lunch plate with lima beans and fries.
The ambience was not that crowded but quite noisy. Server was nice but was getting a little agitated with one of the staff for her «kids meal» situation.
Got our food and I looked at the plate. The meat looked liek sliced deli meat (roast beef). I was turned off! BUT I was hungry so I had to deal with eating it. Had to smother it with their signature bbq sauce bottles which helped the meat.
The lima beans were good… tad bit spicy and my first time eating their delicious lima beans.
Love their garlic toast! Fries tasted regular steak fries.
I am not pleased with the food and for almost $ 8 — I will not go back for the «quality».