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Smokin' new home: Longtime Oakwood barbecue eatery shifts locations
Smoke House occupies renovated building across the lot from its former site
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Smoke House BBQ opened in its new location on March 6 in Oakwood. The restaurant moved from a house and old shed to a newly renovated building across the parking lot. - photo by Erin O. Smith
It was a bittersweet moment for Wayne Vaughan when the old building off Atlanta Highway and Poplar Springs Road in Oakwood was taken down. Decades of serving barbecue through a window had ended, but Smoke House BBQ’s days weren’t over. The business, which started in 1978 in the basement of Vaughan’s Poplar Springs Road home, simply moved to a renovated building just across the parking lot.