Smokey Joe's Island Grill

Smokey Joes is the place to go for great ribs (original), casual and affordable dining and the best dessert on earth- deep fried oreos! Huge delicious portions - good for sharing. Staff is always great and the atmosphere laid back. It is always our teens first choice for Aruba dining!

We thoroughly enjoyed Smokey Joe's Excellent food. Relaxed informal dining.

If you want great ribs, this is the place to go. Order the original ribs and you will not be disappointed. The portions are very generous and the prices are a great value for the money. The staff is very friendly and the atmosphere is a lot of fun. We love this place !!!

We have been to AUA 5 times now, and luckily we found this place in year one. We LOVE Smokey Joes, and usually hit it twice when we are there! Original Ribs and top it off with key lime pie, both are the best I've ever had! We crave it!

Our best memories of Aruba, besides the obvious beach/sun combo: Balashi, Amstel Bright, El Gaucho, Pizza Bob's, dushi bagels and Smokey Joe's! Can't wait to get back!

I don't understand why this restaurant is not in the top 10. It is amazing. My husband and I and another couple dined here twice during our stay and both times were not dissapointed. The pulled pork was delicous and very generous. The guys loved the burgers. We tried the ribs the second visit and they were the best ribs we have ever had. Somone complained that they were fatty?? Not true for us at all. They were fall off the bone meaty goodness. This is a very relaxed and fun atmosphere and the service was incredibly fast. Especially for how busy it was. If you are looking for a fancy restaurant go elsewhere but if your looking for good food at a fair price. This is 100% a must!! There is no way we will pass this place up when we go back to Aruba!!

i can't understand why it's every night so bysy in this restaurant. ok, the ribs are good but the furniture! when i go out to eat i like to sit nicely this is what we call in Holland, "Go away furniture" you want not to sit here to long because it's not posible to sit anywhere else if you sit to long. the tables were dirty and the seets sticky. but what do you expect with so many customers. in Holland this restaurant would have been closed by the health instpection!

They say they have the best ribs in Aruba and i believe that is true. I went there a few years ago and it was honestly the best i've ever had. The fried oreos are a must try. We are considering going back to Aruba and a main reason is to eat at this restaurant.

We visited the island 12/1-12/8.For a few years we passed this place and it was always busy.So on the first night we dined there.They say they have the BEST ribs on the island.NOT SO.I had 2 half racks of baby back ribs.The quality was very poor(FATTY). We will not eat there again.We did find another place for baby backs & they were very good and a little more expensive but they very good.

Positive: Good atmosphere, great place for ribs and hamburgers, although I think TGIF ribs fall off the bone even more....
Negative: I find it a little too warm both inside the restaurant and on the terrace. Air conditioning could be improved, and tables tend to feel sticky (either from heat or not clean). Staff seem a little indifferent to customers.

Beside the negative stuff, this is a great place to enjoy good Caribbean or American food.

My family of four came to Smokey Joe's base on the reviews we read. This is the only place we had to wait to be seated. We all had the baby back rib samplers. We all liked the original flavor best. Waiter was not great, but he could not give anyone great service because he had too many tables to wait on. We had to wait a long time to get more drinks, the waiter never came back to the table to check on us, I had to go to him and ask for more drinks twice.