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By Matt Moment for Valley Table At Rhinebeck’s Smoky Rock BBQ, you’ll find signature meats, boozy beverages, and the Psichas family at your service. Smoky Rock is a family affair if there ever was one. When you step inside the Rhinebeck restaurant, you’ll be greeted by Christiana Psichas or her mother, Nike—they run the front of house. In the kitchen, Christiana’s younger sister, Vasiliki, and father, Dimitris, are preparing smoked meats for expectant palates, fielding

May 16 was National Barbecue Day How to celebrate?  Let me count the ways. This gallery looks at a dozen top barbecue joints in Upstate New York.  Some are big, some are roadside, some are mom-and-pop, one is a food truck, some are take-out only, etc.  But the one thing in common they all have is they make some mighty fine barbecue. As you will see, each barbecue restaurant is directly linked to their website

Did The FBI Really Swarm Rhinebeck? Well, sort of. Some of the cast from CBS’s hit television show FBI were in the Hudson Valley recently. Popular barbeque joint, Smoky Rock BBQ in Rhinebeck shared that 2 of the show’s stars had a hankerin’ for some New York BBQ. What Was The FBI Cast Doing in the Hudson Valley? We’re not too sure what Boyd and VanSanten were doing in the area, but they very well could

Bill Cary, For the Poughkeepsie Journal After many years of successfully helming Coco’s Italian restaurant in Hyde Park, Dimitris Psichas and his wife, Nike, decided to switch gears completely in 2014 and open a barbecue place of their own. The old-fashioned wood-smoked barbecue had long been a backyard passion for Dimitris, a native of Greece, and he wanted to try his hand at it full time. In May 2014, the couple opened Smoky Rock BBQ