Restaurant Review: Simply Southern Smokes the Competition

Let me preface this by saying, I’m not a fan of buffets. To my way of thinking, a place that makes everything often doesn’t do anything particularly well.

But there are exceptions to every rule.

Simply Southern Smokehouse, a barbeque and country buffet, is that exception.

One of the area’s newest eateries, Simply Southern is located on 10th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach, next to the, ahem, Masters Club.

As the name implies, Simply Southern smokes it’s pork for up to 16 hours and the results are a barbeque lovers dream. The pork and the phalanx of sauces offered (here is a vote for the mustard sauce or the spicy vinegar) are, at a minimum, as good as any along the Grand Strand.

Great as the barbeque is, it’s not what makes Simply Southern a must-stop on your next Myrtle Beach golf trip. The undoing of most buffets is the bland nature of the offerings, a failing that is hard to avoid when cooking for the masses and food has to be turned over quickly.

At Simply Southern each delicacy on its more than 40-item buffet tastes as if it were the most important item on the menu.

Whether you are getting the chicken and dumplings, chicken bog, cheddar smoked bacon potatoes or greens beans, each item tastes comparable to the food your grandmother used to make.

Sure they use a lot of butter and the fatback the greens are prepared in doesn’t make it the healthiest meal on the beach, but it’s a small price to pay.

The buffet also offers fried chicken, smoked sausage and an assortment of other daily specials. You can’t go wrong with any of them.

If you manage to save room for dessert, choosing between the homemade peach cobbler and the banana pudding is liked being forced to decide Sophia Vergara and Jessica Biel. It’s impossible, but at Simply Southern you can have both, assuming you leave time for an afternoon nap.

These best part? It’s $9.50 for the buffet and a drink at lunch.

If home cooking and barbeque are what you want, you won’t find a better lunch on your next Myrtle Beach golf trip than the one offered at Simply Southern Smokehouse.