Smack Daddy’s serves up comfort food
SUN PHOTO BY ANNE KLOCKENKEMPER, annek@sun-herald.com
During the special event for North Port chamber members Thursday night, Smack Daddy's served samples of appetizers, including french fries and fried pickles, fall-off-the-bone ribs and slider-sized barbecued pulled-pork sandwiches.
SUN PHOTO BY ANNE KLOCKENKEMPER, annek@sun-herald.com
Smack Daddy's is located at 1151 Toledo Blade Blvd. (in the Shoppes of Price Crossing), North Port. It is currently open seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call 941-888-2198.
SUN PHOTO BY ANNE KLOCKENKEMPER, annek@sun-herald.com
Smack Daddy's owners Eric, left, and Laura Van Vlack, right, stand in their new North Port restaurant Thursday night with their general manager, daughter Sarah Jane Fischer. The restaurant, which held a preview for chamber members Thursday night and a ribbon-cutting Friday morning, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, and specializes in barbecue and comfort food.
NORTH PORT — The owners of Smack Daddy’s, a new barbecue and comfort-food restaurant at Toledo Blade and Price boulevards, loved this area so much they relocated here from New Jersey.
“We were looking at a couple of different places, and North Port, when I looked at the demographics on it, has the highest growth rate for this side of Florida,” said Laura Van Vlack. “Then when I actually saw the restaurant and the location, and I saw everything around it, I thought, ‘There is no way this can fail unless I have terrible service or food,’ and I hope I don’t have terrible service, and I know the food is good.”
