The Junkyard Smoke Bloke

The Junkyard Smoke Bloke We are a small family business serving real American barbecue from our home base at The Peldon Plough and a, frankly, ridiculous little trailer.

It all started a couple of years ago when I decided it would be cool to buy a food smoker, as the restaurant I was working in was looking to relocate and I was working on a new menu for it. To this end I managed to persuade the boss to part with rather a lot of money for the smoker and I set to developing fancy, smoked food. I came up with some rather good dishes using the smoker even if I do say

so myself. We hit upon a slight hitch once we found a new site; the kitchen was about the size of shoebox and I could barely fit in the normal equipment I needed, let alone a great big smoker. There was also no storage space to put the smoker so I, being a selfless super helpful kind of guy, offered to take the smoker home until we figured out what to do with it. We never did figure anything out, so, 2 years, a dozen books and far too many trips to the best barbecue joints I could find in London, I am a convert; there is simply no food better than slow smoked meat, end of. After more than 20 years working as a chef in London, and the last 10 managing as well, I had had just about enough of the anti-social hours and 15 hour days so, we sold our house, moved out to the sticks (comparatively at least) and set to planning a new life. I spent the best part of a year playing with meat and wood and spices, mixing and blending, tweaking and tuning until I had a menu that I would be happy to serve to you, our (hopefully) loyal customers. So, then we bought a burger trailer. We spent 7 months finding out all the horrible things that were wrong with it & fixing those, making stupid design decisions & regretting those, learning just how hard it is to do all these engineer type technical things involved but learning those. But, in the end, we had what we wanted; a unique, eye catching trailer to go with the food. It may be stupid looking but we love it and we hope you'll love the food we're serving from it.

11/08/2022

Hi all,
I've been meaning to post an update for a little while but it's been hard to find the words. The Junkyard Smoke Bloke had now closed down.
We did our best to make it work at The Peldon Plough, and we thank the guys there for giving us the opportunity, but unfortunately it just wasn't working out.
Thank you so so much for supporting us over the years, good and bad. We had the time of our lives meeting and serving you all and will truly miss it all.
Now it's back off to big, bad, London to start working an actual job again for the first time in years 😞
We hope to resurrect the Junkyard one day when the time and place are right for it.
Much love to y'all.

We're catering our first festival in far too long this weekend, we'll be at Secret Island Festival from Ultrafunkula ser...
19/07/2021

We're catering our first festival in far too long this weekend, we'll be at Secret Island Festival from Ultrafunkula serving up ribs, wings, pulled pork buns etc. and we can't wait to get out in the sun again!

There's still some tickets left so head over to https://www.ultrafunkula.co.uk/secret-island-festival/ to get yours.

We make and smoke all our sausages in house, and it's one of my favourite jobs! There's something very therapeutic about...
06/05/2021

We make and smoke all our sausages in house, and it's one of my favourite jobs! There's something very therapeutic about stuffing and linking sausages 😁

Good afternoon BBQ fanciers,We are so, so happy to be open again! It may only be outside but we're BBQ people, we're tou...
16/04/2021

Good afternoon BBQ fanciers,

We are so, so happy to be open again! It may only be outside but we're BBQ people, we're tough enough to handle a bit of chilly weather in the pursuit of awesome, smokey goodness 😁

We're serving lunch & dinner all weekend so call the pub on 01206 735 808 to book your tables for dining to avoid disappointment.

Can't wait to see y'all again!

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0 The Peldon Plough
Colchester
CO5 7QR

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