I grew up just down the road from the original Knoth's location. Â I left over 40 years ago, just after high school. Â I still think of the "new" location as The Diamond, but the food is as good as always. Â I've had lots of BBQ in many places around the world. Â My benchmark for BBQ is still a pork sandwich, no sauce. Â Western Kentucky is the best in the world, and Knoth's is at the top.
Hospitality is also great. Â During my last visit from California, I met up with my brother and his wife and daughter, now from Atlanta. Â We stopped by the Coon Dog Inn in Fredonia for a take-out Chocolate Meringue pie. Â My niece has never lived in Kentucky, but she knows the food so we're making all the rounds. Â We take the pie to Knoth's and share with the waitress in exchange for plates and forks to go with the pork sandwiches. Â That's the kind of hospitality you'd get in your mother's kitchen.
Here's the thing: Â every time I return for a sandwich, or share a shoulder with family, it's always as good as I remember.
BBQ sauce bad/terrible. Â No BBQ here I think pull pork plate - Â meat with no sauce tasted boiled then baked. Â No run or sauce on it. Â No good! Â Adding their sauce made it worse. Â One was like a salad dressing they called sweet and the other was FULL of black pepper they called hot.
Review Source:My childhood visits to my grandmother's in western KY would never be complete without a stop at Knoth's.
I hadn't been here in probably ten years, but we went on a family road last week and stopped by. Nothing's changed in a decade! Same knickknacks, same pictures on the wall, same amazing BBQ.
They have a smoke shack outside where the magic happens, and the kitchen inside cranks out amazing, simple, perfect BBQ sauce. Now, for the initiated, Â this is simple stuff. It's pulled pork on a bun, with a light touch of sauce. You're left to add more sauce or salt on your own. Some places drown their stuff in sauce, and really, you can't judge the skill of the pit master because all you get is sauce. Here, they let the quality of the pork speak for itself.
You don't even get a plate. Seriously.
I don't care. You get a Knoth's pulled pork sandwich!! Don't get greedy. Who needs a plate? It's not like you're going to put it down once you pick it up. . .
There isn't a printed menu here, but a couple of boards on the wall with the selection posted up. Look, there's not a big variety here (understatement!), but there's only two things you want: a pulled pork sandwich and a butterscotch milkshake.
I am actually really allergic to pork, but I took a handful of Benedryl, washed it down with a milkshake and ate two pulled pork sandwiches and crossed my fingers. The perfection of Knoth's is worth whatever pain and suffering my allergy brings me...
I must confess....my family has been eating here longer than I've been in existence. Â Every holiday for as long as I've been alive has been accompanied by a pork shoulder from Knoth's. Â If you don't know what that is, then you have no idea what you're missing. Â I'm talking about some of the best stuff you could possibly eat, smothered in incredible bbq sauce. Â It's tradition to eat it with white bread slices, bbq sauce and lay's potato chips. Â
It may not be fancy, but it's simply unbeatable.
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