How We Create Award Winning Smoked Meats

Award winning BBQ near Des Moines is what we are known for, and the reason for that is not only the excellent variety that we offer, but also the way that we prepare our mouth-watering meats. Wobbly Boots Roadhouse in Clive has taken your favorite hickory-smoked flavors and perfected them. 

How do we do it?

Every single day here at the best BBQ restaurant in Des Moines, the first thing to greet you when you arrive will be the savory smell from our smoker. There is a new mouth-watering batch of meats slow-cooking over hickory daily. 

We have discovered the perfect cooking times to give you the juiciest, most tender meats available. It wasn't hard to do, because we took inspiration from the BBQ meccas of the United States: Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Texas, and the deep south. Our special dry rub begins the process, then that good ol' hickory takes over. 

Our Smoked Meats

Pulled Pork
Our pulled pork is slow-smoked over hickory for 16 hours, then hand-pulled & trimmed. 

Beef Brisket
Our juicy beef brisket hangs out in the smoker for 10 hours for maximum tenderness. 

Burnt Ends
Extra-smoked, seasoned, and seared beef chunks carved right from the brisket point, then topped with our incredible house-made BBQ sauce.

Turkey Breast
100% white meat turkey breast, smoked to perfection.

Pit Ham
Lean, thin-sliced, and double-smoked.

Smoked Sausage
Hickory-smoked polish sausage. Low, slow, and unbelievable delicious.

Lots of Variety

All of these mouth-watering smoked meats can be ordered in sandwich form with one side dish or on a plate alongside a great big piece of Texas toast and two of our incredible side dishes. In addition to that, you can also find these tasty treats on a variety of other items throughout our menu. Here are a few:

BBQ Pork Nachos
Our house-smoked pulled pork is the feature in this incredible appetizer. It sits atop tri-colored tortilla chips along with our homemade white queso, baked beans, cheddar-jack cheese, tomatoes, & onions. It even comes with salsa, sour cream, and jalapenos. 

Mushroom, Ham, & Swiss Burger
Hickory-smoked pit ham, sauteed mushrooms, and Swiss cheese are all piled on top of our classic Farm Boy black Angus burger. 

Cowboy Cobb Salad

This "king of salads" is generously topped with our smoked ham & turkey, plus crumbled bacon, hard-boiled egg, avocado, tomatoes, red onion, and cheddar-jack & Provel cheese. 

Texas 2-Step
Both smoked beef brisket and smoked sausage are drizzled with our house recipe BBQ sauce and served on golden Texas Toast. 


Come on in to our Des Moines BBQ restaurant and give our unbelievable smoked meats a try. The Wobbly Boots Roadhouse kitchen crew will creatively prepare them in a variety of delectable ways, so you'll have plenty of delicious menu options. You will not be disappointed!  

Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

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Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
Clive IA 50325

(515) 223-5700

Hickory Wood Makes the Tastiest Smoked Meats

Smoking meats is described as "the process of flavoring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood."  That makes it sound complicated, but the best BBQ restaurant in Des Moines knows all about this delicious process.  On any given day you will find a big, mouth-watering batch of meats being smoked right here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse.

People have been smoking meats as far back as the time of primitive cavemen. Meat was often hung up to dry to make it last longer, but they began noticing that the meat hung in areas where it was exposed to smoke had a better flavor, was better preserved, and a lot less dried out.  An amazing new taste was born! 

Today there is less need to preserve food since modern-day appliances allow us to keep it fresh and it is readily available in every grocery store and restaurant. Now smoking is less about preserving the meat and more about the unique and incredible flavor that the process provides.  


A variety of things can be used to smoke with, but wood seems to produce the tastiest meats.  There are also a lot of different woods that can be used:  mesquite, alder, oak, pecan, maple... but Wobbly Boots Roadhouse is partial to hickory.    


Hickory has a very rich and full-bodied flavor that complements every meat that we serve.  This isn't necessarily a wood for beginners to start out with.  It is a strong flavor that can sometimes be overwhelming when used alone, but we're not beginners!  Our cooks know exactly how low and slow to smoke our meats so that they come out perfectly every time.  They start out by generously coating the meats with our special dry rub, then finish it off with our incredible house-recipe sauce.  

We not only love eating hickory-smoked meat here, but we love smoking just about every piece of meat we get our hands on.  This is a special treat that most people don't take the time to perfect on their own at home.  Your choices include:

• Wings
• Beef Brisket
• Burnt Ends
• Prime Rib (Fridays & Saturdays after 5 pm)
• Shaved Prime Rib
• Corned Beef
• Pork
• Pit Ham
• Turkey
• Polish Sausage
• Meatloaf
• Ribs
• Chicken
• Bacon

What are you waiting for?  You've got a lot of different deliciously smoked meats to try at the best BBQ restaurant in Des Moines.  Our menu offers everything above served up in a few different ways, along with the best-tasting home style side dishes you've ever had.  Start deciding now which one (or two, or three...) you will start with the next time you visit Wobbly Boots Roadhouse.  
    

Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of 

Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

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Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
Clive IA 50325

(515) 223-5700

What the Heck is a Burnt End?

While the name makes it sound like a cooking mistake that should never find its way to the table, a burnt end is actually a sought-after barbecue delicacy.  The best BBQ restaurant near Des Moines knows this first hand.  Our burnt ends are a very popular menu item, but we still get a lot of people wondering what the heck it is and how in the world it got that unattractive name.  

The best description of a burnt end is the flavorful pieces of meat cut from the point half of a smoked brisket.  A Wobbly Boots beef brisket spends a large amount of time in the smoker to give it the incredible flavor that it is known for. The pointy tips end up cooking faster than the center and drying up, looking charred and burnt.  That is where the name comes from.  They aren't always the prettiest food, but they are most definitely one of the tastiest that you will ever have the pleasure of putting in your mouth.  


A long time ago most cooks would throw them away or save them to use as flavoring for other dishes.  Some even gave them away from free.  These soon became sought-after pieces of meat.  The extra cooking time allowed for an extremely intense, delicious smoky flavor.  It didn't take too terribly long to finally realize that the burnt ends weren't something to throw out, but rather a dish that people wanted to eat.  

Here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse, our burnt ends are extra-smoked, seasoned, and seared.  We carve these enticing beef chunks right from the brisket point and serve them up to you with our award-winning house recipe BBQ sauce.  Whether you choose to eat them on a sandwich or have us serve you up a big ol' plate of them, you are guaranteed a flavorful treat.  

Don't let the name fool you.  It doesn't sound pretty, but you better believe it's some of the best bbq near Des Moines that you will ever have the pleasure of eating.  Stop by Wobbly Boots Roadhouse in Clive soon and try them for yourself.        

Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of 

Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

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Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
Clive IA 50325

(515) 223-5700

Why Do We Slow Cook Our Smoked Meats?

Making the best BBQ in the Des Moines area is what we proudly do. It's a long, slow process that may sound like a lot of trouble, but is so worth every bit of the time and effort it takes when you taste that final product.  If you want that fall-off-the-bone meat that literally melts in your mouth, slow smoking is the way to go.  


Grilling is the act of cooking food directly over a fire, but smoking is done by cooking the food next to, not over, the flame.  It also must be done at a very low heat, which is why it is such a long process.  Mini-science moment:  smoking meat actually turns the collagen in the meat to a gelatin, which is what makes it so very tender.  

We have perfected our dry rub here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse, and our preferred wood is hickory.  The combination of these things makes for maximum flavor and tenerness.

If you haven't had the chance, you really need to get on over to the best BBQ restaurant in the Des Moines Iowa area and give our smoked meats a try.  Our mouth-watering choices include: 

• Pulled Pork
• Beef Brisket
• Burnt Ends
• Turkey Breast
• Pit Ham
• Smoked Sausage
• Wings

There is no need for you to go to all of the trouble of smoking your own dinner. We have the very best smoked meats at our amazing Clive, Iowa BBQ restaurant already cooked up and waiting for you.  Our experience cooking these delicious meats guarantees that you will get the best possible meal whenever you have a craving for it right here at Wobbly Boots Roadhouse.  

   


Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

New Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

Like us on Facebook!

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Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St
Clive IA 50325

(515) 223-5700