Restaurant Description
Morris and Lisa Melchor are living the American Dream - Texas style. Smokey Mo's Bar-B-Q has become a favorite of barbeque connoisseurs in the Cedar Park and Austin area since it opened in July of 2000. And for good reason: owners Morris and Lisa Melchor have lived and worked in the barbeque business for an astounding sixty years between them! If you can't get it right in that many years, you might as well give up. Central Texans are glad they didn't. Morris Melchor's barbeque is the Real Deal, and anyone lucky enough to have discovered Smokey Mo's will agree. Morris, a native Texan, started his restaurant career in a relatively unspectacular way: washing dishes at the Longhorn Barbeque restaurant where his mother worked. He was all of twelve years old at the time. Morris later joined the Luther's Barbeque chain, working his way up from kitchen staff, to kitchen manager and eventually to general manager. It was during this time that Morris met his future wife, Lisa. Lisa moved from her home state of New York and started working at Luther's after high school graduation. Morris and Lisa were married in 1982, and have worked together since that first meeting. As the years passed the couple moved from Luther's to Rally's Hamburgers in Miami, eventually landing in Austin with a local barbeque chain. As general manager, Morris helped establish three Austin area restaurants. After years of lending their experience to the opening of restaurants for family and friends, the Melchors decided to take the plunge themselves, Opening Smokey Mo's in Cedar Park. Business is booming and they've never looked back. "Everything just fell into place after Lisa and I decided to open this restaurant," says Morris. "God has played a major part in this - that's why it has gone so smoothly." One thing that all of Morris and Lisa's customers can agree on - Barbeque from Smokey Mo's is heaven on earth!
Best Known For...
Known for sauce. Won several awards.
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