American Smokehouse

You can just about hear the roar of the Brisbane Lions kickin’ ass at The Gabba from the American Smokehouse’s Ipswich Road location, making it a top spot for some pre- or post-match fodder. And hearty fare it is too, with this American barbecue-style restaurant stacking up the grill with a truckload of slow-cooked, smoky and tender goodness. But while the ribs and wings and burgers are the main attraction, American Smokehouse also does a mean breakfast spread for the residents of Woolloongabba, and you can’t pass up the opportunity to wash it all down with the German beers on offer.

Brisbane isn’t short on beer and burger joints, but at its Woolloongabba premises American Steakhouse has raised the bar and a mighty starred and striped banner for low-slung and slow-cooked Southern BBQ. You can take your meal sitting down or standing up or you can kick back on the shaded German beer garden’s deck and help yourself to gourmet sausages from Wurst-Meister and a pot of Warsteiner pilsener, Hefeweizen wheat beer, or German Duke lager. You can of course get a drop of fine Australian wine if that tickles your fancy. The venue boasts plenty of room (and plenty of parking) for private hire and special events too, from 5 to 50 guests and all manner of occasions, and it’s easy to reach from Brisbane CBD and Southbank.

Breakfast at any American restaurant is a supersized affair, and American Smokehouse does the tradition proud with a simple Bircher muesli trumped by a generous lacing of maple syrup, breakfast wraps – don’t hold the hickory-smoked bacon – and Texan-style scrambled eggs, a platter of Wagyu beef, bacon and egg with American tomato chutney on a brioche bun and the American big breakfast for, well, insatiable appetites. Despite the 300-capacity parking lot down Ipswich Road that surrounds American Smokehouse, lunch and dinner time sees the place buzzing with BBQ fanatics after the house-glazed, 12-hour smoked and slow-cooked ribs, tangy deep-fried chicken wings, massive pulled pork or brisket or chicken schnitz or veggie burgers, and the classic German bratwurst, franks, Polish kransky and Hungarian debrecener sausages in rolls. Wade through it all here at Woolloongabba’s American Smokehouse, the new home of American fast-lane cuisine in Brisbane.