Smokin Willy BBQ

I came in with my family on Friday about 6:30 for dinner. I was a little skeptical at first seeing it was in a strip mall, but had heard great things and wanted to check it out.
We were happily greeted at the front door and promptly say at a table. The restaurant wasn’t fully packed, but most of the tables were full.
Emily was our server and I didn’t see her once without a smile on her face. She greeted us almost immediately and took our drink order and then returned to take our food order. I asked for a recommendation between a couple options and with her suggestion, I ordered the Pulled Brisket Tacos. Oh boy I am glad I got them. THEY WERE AMAZING!
I was actually caught off guard that a BBQ place had tacos, but holy cow were they good.
My family ordered a salad, the brisket, the chicken tacos, and the two kids ordered the carne asada. Everything was great! Prices were pretty good, and the service was impeccable.
I will definitely return for some more brisket tacos!

Absolutely delicious! The southwest chicken dip was so good with the smoked chicken. We wanted to lick the bowl clean! We got the smoked turkey and brisket. Both were melt in your mouth delicious. I highly recommend this place.

Delicious coleslaw and excellent ribs, great selection of beers. So glad we found it! Clean, and fast and friendly service. We’ll be back.

I am SO glad we chose Smok’n Willy’s to be our caterer. Our guests absolutely LOVED their food, service and over presence at our wedding.
We did a tasting at their restaurant and met with Chris to discuss the details. After many email exchanges we finally nailed down a menu and deposit. A word of advice when tracking comms with them, keep all of your emails and attachment. We occasionally found a few mistakes in the quote which affected the pricing and upon notification to Chris they were straightened out with no issues.
The day of the wedding they arrived early and set up quickly. They were able to accommodate our Chinese Tea Ceremony (we provided Tea and the Tea Set) and a cake from a different Vendor. I was a bit freaked out the day of because I forgot to leave detailed instructions for the cake and other reception set up, however Jan with the consultation of my family members made very good judgement calls and had the reception set up perfectly.
Now the food, nothing short of fresh, delicious and amazing! I got SO many compliments on their food. Everything was prepared fresh off the grill and served immediately. I had reports of people rushing to get seconds because they closed down the buffet line and other newly weds had commented that Smok’n Willy’s was way better than their caterer hands down.
If you get a Keg, plan on having a bucket and tap ready to use after they leave. You won’t be able to keep their tap & bucket after they depart.
Overall… for the price, service and great tasting food you’d be crazy to NOT consider these guys for your caterer.

Had their Carne Asada yesterday. It is delicious! Melt in your mouth lime marinated beef steak.

Couldn’t make up my mind, so they made an exception for me so that I could try two types of Q. (When was the last time a server actually listened to you?) Had the quarter slab ribs with cherry bourbon glaze along with the sliced brisket. My sides were salad and charro beans. The brisket was more than generous, enough for two, and the quarter of a rack (3ribs). The salad was chilled and served with a cold fork on its own wooden platter. The main dish was presented in a very clean wooden platter with my dinner on a plate almost the size of a serving platter!
Now for the good part — If you like fall off the bone pork ribs, you have found heaven! The bark is sweet, tangy, crunchy, and juicy, at the same time ! The actual pork on the ribs is falling off the bone and smoked to perfection. Like I said, heaven! The brisket was arranged and resembled a snapshot! The bark was thin and you could see the smoke ring. (The menu says they smoked it at least 10 hours.) The slices were thicker than I expected, it is a serious amount of brisket. My only disappointment was I would like more fat! I always felt that smoking meats was taking an unappealing hunk of something and make it tasty. They use a higher quality of beef. The brisket was well trimmed, lean, and tasty. Brisket isn’t sweet, compared to the ribs, and I could taste the mild smoke in the meat. It was fantastic!

I got the pulled pork sandwich with a side of fries and hands down the best I’ve ever had. The staff is really friendly and the food is on point. Mike who handled my order was friendly and polite. I’ve already told my family and friends that you can’t come to Purcellville without making a stop here. Loved it and definitely will be back. Great BBQ at a great price!

Great fall off the bone baby back ribs! Onion petals were too spicy hot to my liking and the coleslaw was a bit too sweet. Mac and cheese was a better choice.
I recommend this place for great bbq!

I went back and forth between a two and three star review. My son liked the pulled pork. My brisket was just ok. Service just ok. Price? meh… its bbq. But I HATED sitting in the booths. Probably messed up my experience because so uncomfortable. I don’t think the seats are deep enough I guess for taller people.

This was my first time trying smokin willy Texas Grill and being a Texas native it is my last. There wasn’t any smoke in the brisket nor the turkey. Texas bar b que is always smoked
This is not TX que

Unbelievable how great the food was. My server, Michael has been there two months and did a great job. He recommended the Carne Asada, which I ordered & my husband got the brisket tacos! Our sides included roasted vegetables, macaroni and cheese, and French fries all cooked perfectly! We were interested in the charro beans, so he brought us a small sample. They were fantastic. We weren’t sure what to expect when we walked in, as we haven’t heard much about the place since we recently moved to Purcellville. Outstanding! Will definitely recommend to others and will be back!

As a Texan… big ol’ thumbs up! Texas flags. Brisket Tacos. Spicy Ranch. O M G. Just stop in. Have a beer and a bite to eat. Ribs are good. Smoked turkey is good. Brisket taco are good. Cheese fries are what you would think good. Stop in. You won’t be disappointed

Arrived for lunch on the weekend and it was surprisingly empty. Greeted by friendly staff and they were really attentive! They brought extra napkins and refilled our drinks without prompting… now that is service! :)
The food was delicious! Far better than any Mission BBQ I’ve been to. I recommend the pulled pork tacos with the coleslaw topping. It was so delicious. Can’t wait to come back and try the other stuff.

Not sure why this place has any less than 5 stars. We had smokin willys catered to our work today and boy was it SMOKIN! Pulled pork, burgers, hot dogs, chicken and sides were out of this WORLD! Would love for them to come back. They were really professional and made a great atmosphere. Phenomenal bbq!

I eat here for lunch at least once a week. The food is consistently tasty. I like the turkey Reuben and the smoked chicken quesadilla. The appetizer cheese fries are enough to serve four or more people and delicious. The issue here, and a lack of a star, is the hit or miss quality of service. I’ve had excellent service one visit and lackluster service the next week.

I love barbecue and I’m soooo happy I finally came around to trying this place. Their pulled pork sandwich is phenomenal. Pair it with the spicy barbecue sauce at the table and it’s to DIE for! My boyfriend ordered the barbecue chicken sandwich. It was huge, and the flavor of the chicken was easily the tastiest chicken breast I’ve ever had. The portions were big and it cost us less than $ 30 including tip for the two of us. Will most definitely be back to try more!!!

Looking for a place to eat an early lunch, we stopped by Smoking Willy. A friendly greeting by our server when we walked in was followed by our choice of seating, as it was before 11.30am and only one booth was occupied. I am not a big fan of BBQ but my husband is, so I was willing to give it a shot. We started with the Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes. It was served quickly and was huge and tasted amazing.
A brisket sandwich with fries was served to my husband with an additional side of mac’n’cheese and I got the Special Turkey reuben (like I said, not a big BBQ fan). My sandwich was great. You could taste the tender, juicy smoked turkey even with all the other ingredients, which can overpower a bland turkey. The sandwich was huge and with the appetizer, I didn’t even touch the fries which looked crispy. The brisket got two thumbs up from the hub but the mac’n’cheese was bland bland bland. I would bet that it never saw the oven, just made on the stove top.
All in all it was a tasty meal. We will be coming back.

As we sat down with the two kids, wifey says «mmm, brisket» and I say, «anything has to be better than that dry particle board stuff you brought home the other day…»
She says, «oh, yeah that’s right, got it from here…»
Ok, no worries, she’ll split the fish tacos with the kids and I’ll share the ribeye with her. The tacos had the skinniest little piece of mahi I’ve ever seen and the ribeye looked like someone was happy I ordered it, giving the opportunity to get rid of a couple bad cuts. Our son said the mahi was the best he ever tasted, my buttocks shaped cut of ribeye took a lot of salt and pepper and still was strangely tasteless.
Service was great, except after making a joke then a comment about my tasteless ribeye, there was no sign of anybody else that cared about my opinion.
Oh well, $ 22 for a steak that I hope to enjoy on a croissant for lunch…
Cheers!

We ordered the brisket and the ribs, and were impressed. The sides were fine too: coleslaw with not too much mayo, fries, and onion petals. The onion petals were a little short on onion and heavy on breading and grease, but that’s the nature of the beast.
The service was intense and frequent, i.e. full of interruptions, but very friendly. Left the impression that they wanted turnover on the tables, even though half of the tables were empty. Go figure.
Expect that the man in the party will be asked how things were, whether he needs a box or not, and will be given the check. But that’s Texas, folks.

Meat is still rather dry and boring. This just isn’t good barbecue.
Sides are rather uninspiring too …
If your meats are going to lack, you have to (HAVE TO) get the sides right.
Service was friendly and actually cares …