If you travel to central Florida to visit attractions such as the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Garden, Disney Quest or Harry P. Leu Botanical Gardens, you can also enjoy a family-style meal at one of the area's barbecue restaurants. Alternatively, you can easily impress your co-workers, business associates, friends or family members with a catered backyard meal that comes complete with your choice of barbecue menu items and island-inspired entertainment.
Located in Orlando, Bubbalou's Bodacious BBQ restaurant houses 14 flat-screen televisions in its casual dining room. The restaurant offers appetizers, such as sweet corn nuggets, fried pickles and onion rings, and barbecued items, such as sliced barbecued beef sandwiches, baby-back ribs and barbecued chicken on the bone. Side items include baked sweet potatoes, Brunswick stew, collard greens and macaroni and cheese.
Bubbalou's also offers off-site catering packages and creates holiday meal deals that feature smoked turkeys and hams. The restaurant has three locations in central Florida.
Bubbalou's Bodacious BBQ
5818 Conroy Road
Orlando, FL 32835
407-295-1212
bubbalous.com
Four Rivers Smokehouse, in Winter Park, offers house specialty items such as smoked jalapenos, smoked chicken wings and barbecued quesadillas. This casual restaurant also prepares St. Louis-style ribs, Southern-style pulled pork, Angus beef brisket, Texas-style smoke sausage and prime rib. Additional menu selections include crumbled cornbread salad, burnt-end sandwiches, pulled chicken slider sandwiches and baked cheese grits.
Four Rivers Smokehouse also features "Chuck Wagon Banquets," which are catering packages that include your choice of meats, side dishes and desserts, all served at your off-site location.
Four Rivers Smokehouse
2301 W. Fairbanks Avenue
Winter Park, FL 32789
407-474-8377
4rbbq.com
CK Jerk Shack Gourmet Island BBQ is a mobile restaurant truck that can be found on Sundays in the Maitland Farmer's Market at Lake Lily Park. However, this moving restaurant can also accommodate your private business or social gathering. It will even enhance your event by providing island-themed music.
The restaurant menu is a fusion of Southern-style barbecue and Jamaican jerk barbecue. Regular menu items include jerk pork or jerk chicken, served with coconut rice and barbecued beans. The catering menu includes your choice of meats, such as roasted fish, hot dogs, hamburgers, shrimp and baby-back ribs, or vegetarian items, such as oak-smoked mushrooms and callalo greens.
CK Jerk Shack Gourmet Island BBQ
5301 N. Pinehills Road
Suite 1599
Orlando, FL 32808
407-301-1363
ckjerkshack.com
