Smithfield’s Chicken’n Bar-B-Q

Five stars hands down ! Food is always very fresh and tasty. Sweet tea is excellent with free refills too. Staff is always friendly and tentative to our needs. Great food at a great price ~ what more do you want !

Super yummy! Friend chicken was great and so much food for the price. This was a great pit stop on our road trip. The place was very clean and the staff was super friendly and made me instantly smile.

Very nice, friendly and efficient with clean facilities and good food. Hubby got the platter which had a lot of food on it — two chickens, beans, fries and hush puppies while I went for the fried chicken breast and hush puppies. It was yummy and glad we stopped by on our way to the beach. The ladies delivered your food to your table and came by a few times offering refills and seeing if we needed anything else. Very nice! My only regret is that I forgot to get the famous southern sweet tea!!!

3.7 Stars
I’m from California, so we don’t really have BBQ places like this but I really like this restaurant. It’s good/​ok but not my favorite. Service is nice. The Banana Pudding is delicious though I must say. And you gotta love those hush puppies ;). We will return a few times when we come to Buies Creek, NC.

Awesome fried chicken.

Passing through and wanted southern cooking. I thought this was a mom and pop restaurant but it’s actually a chain fast food place, they had pulled pork which I had but I thought it was too vinegary. The fried chicken and hush puppies were excellent though. Limited menu selections. Friendly service also. Should really be 3 and ½ star for the chicken and hush puppies.

Not bad pork BBQ for a chain. You know they got sweet tea here in the Carolina’s! But now-​days I get half and half. Smithfield’s sweet tea is way sweet if your not use to it. You can find better BBQ at a mom and pop place in NC but if your on I-​40 and need a BBQ fix, this beats McDonalds!

This is a common chain, known for it’s great tasting food. My sister enjoyed the fried chicken while I got the BBQ platter. Everything was delicious! The hush puppies were fresh and the banana pudding was a perfect ending to this traditional southern meal.
The employees were as friendly as it gets and the service was fast and efficient.

Who knew that fast food dining in the South is a completely different affair? On a recommendation, we googled and stopped by this E. NC chain on a drive back to DC this weekend.
On a Sunday afternoon, the Smithfield’s was filled with people in their Sunday best. They basically have two types of food: fried chicken and bbq. The bbq was really good and the Carolina style sauce (very vinegary) was delicious with my sandwich. With a bbq platter comes two sides, such as beans, Brunswick stew, and baked beans. The many choices can be bought as individual to-​go tubs.
I’m usually not a huge fan of sweet tea, but my meal came with it, so I couldn’t refuse. It also seems like you don’t NOT get sweet tea at Smithfield’s. Once your meal is brought to you, there are ladies who walk around with pitchers of sweet tea to refill you at your seat. You don’t even have to work for your sweet tea!!! How awesome is that? The employees could not have been more helpful. You don’t see this kind of service at any place up north!
The reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because I don’t really like fried chicken and my stomach hurt for the rest of the trip due to overeating and the amount of sugar I ingested through the sweet tea. It’s actually now 9 hours later and my stomach still hurts