Smoky Mountain Bakers

Great little venue. Unassuming pizza with great little bakery. Friendly staff . This little place would be what I would imagine the love child would be if Motel 6 and Dollar General were to Marry. Don’t let the under budget fool you, it’s worth the experience. Red Velvet Scone, Granola Bars, and Boule are superior to ANYTHING I’ve ever tasted. Leftover Pizza reheated in broiler leads to an idyllic second life.

This is what happens when you have great food but miserable staff. They can do better but they don’t care. Great place to get pizza, if they can manage to get it right. 1/12/2023 Again, if they can manage to get it right…look how much cheese they didn’t put on 🤷🏽‍♂️ absolutely horrible. Update 6/24/2023 decided to give them another chance and they gave me a burnt pizza. I asked for a refund and they said that’s how their pizza comes out. Burnt. The kid at the oven laughed at me and the girl at the front asked me to leave. Very horrible customer service once again, and another bad product sent out the door again. It’s a disappointment anymore to come here unfortunately. What a shame. Employees cant even be professional anymore. Also, the customer that walked in behind me was returning a pizza because there’s was also burnt. Same day another update. The owner came to the rescue and saved the day. She offered to make it right and the pizza was phenomenal!!! Just like it used to be!! Very happy, will add a star. And I will do a star for every satisfactory visit in the future. I will post a picture of what the pizza looked like under owners supervision, again Phenomenal!! Hopefully they can straighten up their attitudes and customer service. 9/23/2023 We ordered two pizzas last night. One was an “all the way” and the other was supposed to be spinach and Asiago. They called us back to let us know they didnt have spinach and that was no problem. However when we went to pick it up, they gave us an all the way pizza, and a regular cheese pizza and said oh by the way we were out of Asiago too. But I was expected to take both pizzas and pay for them, which I did, to avoid any bad encounters with your staff. I don’t appreciate the way I was treated by them last time and I don’t want another incident. Perhaps they should’ve let me know ahead of time that they were also out of Asiago. I threw the cheese pizza in the burn pit at home. What a waste of money. What a disappointment.

I visit Roan Mtn State Park at least twice a year and since Smoky Mountain Bakers opened, I come here every time for pizza. I love the fact that I can get a delicious gourmet wood-fired pizza in this little town outside the park. I’ve tried almost every variation but the 6 Cheese is my fave I think, just sublime. Their baked goods are amazing. Try the brownies or rice treats!

I was referred to Smoky mountain bakery by a friend of mine. We were traveling from the North Carolina mountains into the Tennessee valley area and he told me that this was a must stop. Since we are visiting Roan mountain, that's what we did. He did warn me, this is a local place and it looks like a hole in the wall. But don't be scared off! The pizza is magnificent . He could not have been more right. There is a sign right off the highway and as you travel up the side street there's one board left and the restaurant signed. The restaurant itself is not much to speak for from the outside. But the parking lot was full and so we went in and ordered two pizzas. Their pizzas are wood fired, the crusts are thin, and the flavor is amazing. Don't be put off if the edges of the crust seem a little crisp at times, that's just natural to a wood-fired pizza. There are plenty of toppings, the crust itself has a great flavor, and the sauce is wonderful. On top of great food the service was wonderful, and the price was right! One morning for those who are used to franchise locations... This is a local eatery. The atmosphere is probably not what you're used to. But the food is excellent and will worth branching out. I will make a point of coming through anytime I'm in the area. If You're not used to eating at a local joint and are used to commercial franchise ventures, You are in for a pleasant surprise.

Just a great local flavor place off the beaten path. We like thin crust pizza like we used to get at IMOs in St. Louis... This is very close. Probably the best pizza I've had in East TN. They have several topping themed pizzas, but they are all the same size, 15 inches. They also sell bakery items and the chocolate chip cookies were very good. This place looks sketchy from the outside and it is hidden... But well worth a stop for great pizza 🍕.

Still would give the food /baked goods 5 stars. You have to understand things are different around here though. They are on mountain time and don’t have specific days for all their items so we just go back each day to try different things. Today we had breakfast there and the sausage in the gravy was kind of chunky and clumpy and there wasn’t much of it so I had to cut it up. The cheese biscuit was good. I liked the eclair cake too. However my personal favorite is still the lemon tart. We will go back every day we stay at the campground to see if they have them just like we do every time we come. The service leaves something to be desired (if you accidentally get in the server’s way trying to check out the other baked goods to purchase more you will hear a big impatient huffing) but we don’t go for the service, we go for the baked goods. Not everyone will get a menu because it’s “right there on the wall”. If the baked goods weren’t so good and the options so limited in the area we might try some where else to see if they were more polite. Update: service is still not great but we still love the food. The keylime tarts are the best. It would be better if they had a rotation for pastries and baked goods other than the bread. You have to just come and hope there will be something you want/your favorite thing and even though we went almost every day they were open during the 9 days we were there we only got tarts twice.