Big Mouth BBQ- Great Falls, MT - Classic BBQ and Sandwich Joints on Waymarking.com

The history of Big Mouth BBQ (from thier website):

Big Mouth BBQ was born in September of 2001. The 2nd child of Sean and Suzie Knox. It started out as a twinkle in Sean’s eye as he drove the highways of Montana.

I’m Sean and I grew up in West Texas, home of some of the best BBQ in the country. As a young man wanting to see the world, I got a job in Glacier National Park in NW Montana for the Summer. It was there I met my future wife and partner, Suzie. We got married on the banks of Flathead Lake the following year. I had a new home.

We purchased a small air freight company that had been in Suzie’s family since 1962. As third generation owners, we realized the ups and downs of the air freight business. On September 11, 2001, the future got very dim.

There was a question as to whether the industry would survive at all. We weathered the storm but realized how volatile our future might be unless we diversified.

Enter Big Mouth BBQ. In our driveway in Great Falls, Mt. we started building our little BBQ business. Nights and weekends provided me with time to fashion a 22 ft. BBQ trailer. We took about 4 months to complete what had taken years to think about. Finally, our savings exhausted, we had a licensed, working restaurant on wheels.

Suzie had been general manager of a Montana based gourmet pizza company and had the knowledge we needed to prepare our product for sale to the public. I had more gumption than should be legal and we got started with the annual Christmas Stroll in December 2001.

We had great success at our first event . As luck would have it, we applied as a vendor to the Mt. State Fair and were accepted. This was a huge opportunity which we did not squander. Our signature dish was our original Cowboy Cocktail which we had introduced one month earlier in Helena, Mt. at the Mt. Helena Music Festival. The response from the public was tremendous.

Our amazing Cowboy Cocktail; baked beans, choice of BBQ, choice of sauce and choice of tater salad or slaw stacked in a clear cup with a fork in it, has been instrumental in our success. We have also created a Barbarito; baked beans, choice of BBQ, choice of sauce, cheese and slaw wrapped in a flour tortilla. This is becoming more popular by the day.

Big Mouth BBQ began to sell food in the parking lot of our air freight business each and every Friday for the next 4 years. We got the point of critical mass with the business. Now, do we keep on selling food on Fridays (weather permitting), or do we go for it? Guess what?

Big Mouth BBQ opened it’s doors December 15, 2005 at our present location 1008 20th St. S., Great Falls, Mt. (Next to Target). We treat BBQ as a craft, not a category. I have had it with restaurants claiming to have the “Best” or “Famous” BBQ. We prepare our food from scratch daily. We make our sauces, rubs, and smoke food in-house daily. We never boil meat to tenderize-yuk! I drive to Texas to load up with Mesquite every year. We also offer other traditional Southern favorites- Fried Catfish, Hushpuppies, Sweet potato fries and Fried okra.

Address: 1008 20th Street South Great Falls, MT USA 59405 Website: [Web Link] Budget Price Range: 6.00 (listed in local currency) Pig Out Meal: 8.00 (listed in local currency)

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