Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que

About the Business

Specialties

The pitmasters start early each morning to season and smoke Famous Dave's award-winning menu items. Meats are hand-rubbed with a custom blend of spiced and cooked for hours over live-wood smokers with genuine hickory logs. We have a passion for authentic BBQ, with a menu that features our award-winning BBQ and grilled meats, along with a large selection of salads, side items and sandwiches, plus unique desserts. Our fast-casual dine-in atmosphere is the way BBQ was meant to be enjoyed: comfortably and deliciously in a spacious modern BBQ environment, with conveniently fresh, high-quality eats. At Famous Dave's, flavor isn't something that happens. It's our business and we take it seriously, through a process of marinating, seasoning, smoking, grilling, charring and saucing

History

Established in 1994.

BBQ is a passion for Famous Dave's founder, Dave Anderson, who inherited the interest from his father, a Souther rib-connoisseur who brought Dave to the street-corner vendors with their 55-gallon smokers, a tradition of the Deep South. Dave Anderson spent 25 years visiting thousands of BBQ joints across the country, a journey that led him from Memphis storefronts to the huge mesquite pits of Texas to backwoods and smokehouses in the Appalachians. Anderson was on a quest to learn from legendary Pitmasters. After spending years pulling his own all-night cooking sessions to perfect his 'due, he felt he was ready to open his own BBQ place in 1994. Famous Dave opened his first BBQ shack in 1994 in Hayward, Wisconsin. It became immensely popular in a town of only 1,800. Today, Famous Dave's boasts 28 company-owned casual-dining locations and an additional 129 franchise locations in 34 states, Puerto Rico, UAE and Canada.

Meet the Business Owner

Business owner information

Elaina M.

Business Owner

Elaina is the business owner of Famous Daves in Tukwila, WA.