Subject: New Flameless Candle w/ 100,00 hours worth-of-light

From: "Luma Candles" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:51:56 -0700

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We went to Smoque on a Saturday night for dinner with KT and BS. The place was very busy is not really set up to handle their fame. Their system works well in that a host gets your order number and when a table comes available he seats you and puts your order in. This works, but in the meantime you really have no place to wait. You end up standing in awkward places between tables and in what aisles there are. We did have a fairly long wait, although it may have just seemed that way. I think I would try another night of the week, but who knows, it may be the same. To sample, I ordered a chopped brisket sandwich and for Ms T I ordered pulled pork. I also got a half slab of back ribs and some slaw. KT and BS had a rack of ribs with mac and cheese and slaw. The ribs were probably 3-1/2 stars. Pretty good flavor and a nice rub. They were not intensely smoky although they are very dark. This is how dark my ribs at home looked when I did not realize how hot my smoker was runn
ing. I have since fixed that problem. I suspect they are smoking all of their meat too hot because it is all really black but not exceptionally smoky. The ribs on this occasion also were a little overdone. You can see a lot of white bone in the photos that you should not see. I'm sure there is day to day and rack to rack variability but this kept my appraisal short of four stars or better. Certainly they are worth trying again. I ordered chopped brisket in self-defense. Lately when ordering brisket outside of Texas, it has been underdone and you can't eat it on a sandwich without pulling it all off with the first bite. So chopped was my choice to pre-empt this experience. I appreciate that they offer this choice. I suspect they provide the chopped option as a way to use the ends and pieces that don't make nice slices. That is not a bad thing, you get a lot of outside meat and consequently a lot of smoke and bark flavor. This was a good sandwich, much larger than I wanted
. Because the bun is too large and bready, I just ate unsauced meat off the bun. Ms T had pulled pork on her sandwich. She prefers to eat her barbecue with sauce. Simply put, you do not want to eat Smoque's sauce. Neither the spicy nor the mild were worth bothering with. So she did not enjoy eating the pork. She felt it was not very smoky and without sauce, well live by the sauce, die by the sauce. KT and BS were given a free sample of both sliced and chopped brisket because the nice guy preparing their order thought they should have some with their rack. He unfortunately put sauce on the sliced portion, so it was hard for me to really evaluate the