Wonderful bbq. My wife and I stopped in on a Saturday after seeing they had an all you can eat buffet on Saturday nights. This gave us an opportunity to try almost everything on the menu. Ribs, wings, Mac and cheese, corn bread, and the baked beans were among all my favorites but you really couldn’t go wrong. What a great place in the Czech Village in Cedar Rapids!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jeff Haefner
Great all-around barbecue place. We all loved our brisket and pulled pork and ribs.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kathleen H
Open New Years Day...Good pulled pork and love the cornbread!
Steve Morris
We got a pickup order for a party. So much food - and it was so good! Beans are amazing. Brisket and pulled pork excellently done. My only complaint would have been that we didn't have enough buns... But then we found another package in the car! My mistake. So, it was a great office party lunch!
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans
Sloane F
This is the absolute best BBQ place in Cedar Rapids. Went looking for nachos- which are the best, and then found everything on the menu to be amazing. I go here for my birthday with family every year!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mac \u0026 Cheese, Beef Brisket with Cheesy Potatoes and Mac and Cheese, Brisket Nachos, Pulled Pork and Mac and Cheese, Ribs Half Rack of Ribs
Ethan
Absolutely amazing
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rebecca Bratton
Excellent BBQ place. Tried a bunch of stuff all was good, but oh goodness the brisket and cornbread was incredible. Will definitely go back!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans, BBQ Sauce, Mac \u0026 Cheese, Beef Brisket with Cheesy Potatoes and Mac and Cheese, Bone in Wings, Chicken Wings
james brungardt
Food on scale 1-10 solid 5.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans, BBQ Sauce
Bronte Lane
We used Up In Smoke for our wedding last weekend 09.20.25, and we have nothing but good to say! The beans were great, the Mac n cheese is to die for, the pork was mine and my husband’s favorite. The cost blew everyone else out of the water, they left Togo boxes- brought utensils, sauces and great attitudes! Highly recommend and will continue to recommend them! Thank you Up In Smoke for catering us and treating us very well!
Virginia “Ginger the Clown” Rice-Poole
Excellent food! I love the mac and cheese. The coleslaw real good too. All the smoked food is on point, delicious and tender.
Food is always great, nice place to chill in the area.
Joel
Should be listed as a national treasure for their cornbread. It doesn't even need their butter or jam. Ribs were fall off the bone and the brisket was the best I've had in the general CR/IC area. Sauces could use some work but that's it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Shane Paustian
Great BBQ!!! Why didn't I know about Up In Smoke sooner!! A must try and gluten free. I ordered takeout for my wife, 5yo son and I to try. Very friendly and accommodating on the phone and at pick up. Due to an allergy we needed gluten free and they were very helpful. When I got home with our prize we were not prepared. My son is a picky eater and he tried and liked it all and my wife and I agreed. The pulled pork was tender with just the right chew, seasoned perfectly to bring out the meats flavor while not overpowering it. The brisket was similar but left with just the right amount of fat to keep it moist and fill the mouth to overflowing with delectable umami. Then the ribs, oh Lord the ribs. Perfect tenderness so it just stays on the bone enough to still eat from the bone, seasoning was perfection, flavor overflowing. However, even on these devine cuts of perfectly cooked meat, that really needed nothing more, the house bbq sauce brings each to new near mind-blowing heights. Staying on a balance of slightly spicy, not too sweet, full flavor yet complimenting, not overpowering the meats, this sauce even captured my sauce ambivalent wife. The experience of those flavors awakens a primal need to devour it. We were not prepared 😁
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, BBQ Sauce
Nina Elliott
I just love the brisket and pulled pork. The potato salad is one of my favs, however the cornbread and smokey beans are also 5 star!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans, BBQ Sauce, Potato Salad, Cornbread with Jam
Desiree Rieger
1st time checking this bbq out. The wings were good flavor but over cooked & the mac & cheese was horrible. Don’t know that I’ll ever try it again.
Wonderful bbq. My wife and I stopped in on a Saturday after seeing they had an all you can eat buffet on Saturday nights. This gave us an opportunity to try almost everything on the menu. Ribs, wings, Mac and cheese, corn bread, and the baked beans were among all my favorites but you really couldn’t go wrong. What a great place in the Czech Village in Cedar Rapids!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great all-around barbecue place. We all loved our brisket and pulled pork and ribs.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Open New Years Day...Good pulled pork and love the cornbread!
We got a pickup order for a party. So much food - and it was so good! Beans are amazing. Brisket and pulled pork excellently done. My only complaint would have been that we didn't have enough buns... But then we found another package in the car! My mistake. So, it was a great office party lunch!
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans
This is the absolute best BBQ place in Cedar Rapids. Went looking for nachos- which are the best, and then found everything on the menu to be amazing. I go here for my birthday with family every year!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mac \u0026 Cheese, Beef Brisket with Cheesy Potatoes and Mac and Cheese, Brisket Nachos, Pulled Pork and Mac and Cheese, Ribs Half Rack of Ribs
Absolutely amazing
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent BBQ place. Tried a bunch of stuff all was good, but oh goodness the brisket and cornbread was incredible. Will definitely go back!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans, BBQ Sauce, Mac \u0026 Cheese, Beef Brisket with Cheesy Potatoes and Mac and Cheese, Bone in Wings, Chicken Wings
Food on scale 1-10 solid 5.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans, BBQ Sauce
We used Up In Smoke for our wedding last weekend 09.20.25, and we have nothing but good to say! The beans were great, the Mac n cheese is to die for, the pork was mine and my husband’s favorite. The cost blew everyone else out of the water, they left Togo boxes- brought utensils, sauces and great attitudes! Highly recommend and will continue to recommend them! Thank you Up In Smoke for catering us and treating us very well!
Excellent food! I love the mac and cheese. The coleslaw real good too. All the smoked food is on point, delicious and tender.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Food is always great, nice place to chill in the area.
Should be listed as a national treasure for their cornbread. It doesn't even need their butter or jam. Ribs were fall off the bone and the brisket was the best I've had in the general CR/IC area. Sauces could use some work but that's it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great BBQ!!! Why didn't I know about Up In Smoke sooner!! A must try and gluten free. I ordered takeout for my wife, 5yo son and I to try. Very friendly and accommodating on the phone and at pick up. Due to an allergy we needed gluten free and they were very helpful. When I got home with our prize we were not prepared. My son is a picky eater and he tried and liked it all and my wife and I agreed. The pulled pork was tender with just the right chew, seasoned perfectly to bring out the meats flavor while not overpowering it. The brisket was similar but left with just the right amount of fat to keep it moist and fill the mouth to overflowing with delectable umami. Then the ribs, oh Lord the ribs. Perfect tenderness so it just stays on the bone enough to still eat from the bone, seasoning was perfection, flavor overflowing. However, even on these devine cuts of perfectly cooked meat, that really needed nothing more, the house bbq sauce brings each to new near mind-blowing heights. Staying on a balance of slightly spicy, not too sweet, full flavor yet complimenting, not overpowering the meats, this sauce even captured my sauce ambivalent wife. The experience of those flavors awakens a primal need to devour it. We were not prepared 😁
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, BBQ Sauce
I just love the brisket and pulled pork. The potato salad is one of my favs, however the cornbread and smokey beans are also 5 star!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ, Baked Beans, BBQ Sauce, Potato Salad, Cornbread with Jam
1st time checking this bbq out. The wings were good flavor but over cooked & the mac & cheese was horrible. Don’t know that I’ll ever try it again.
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