As a young boy in Hickman, Kentucky, I (Lloyd Westbrook) watched my grandfather, Walter Smith, carefully select the special woods for the fire and the spices to be used for the meat that would result in delicious bar-b-q. Some of my brothers and sisters as well as myself learned the process and for many years prepared bar-b-q for the family and many people in the neighborhood in our one room brick pit.
Many years later I met and married Loretta who helped me with my dream of opening a restaurant. Together we and our children established Grandpa’s Southern Bar-B-Q in July of 1995 in Arco, Idaho. It has always been our desire that Grandpa’s would be a place to come for good food and a good time.