# Smoking Pig BBQ, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/smoking-pig-bbq-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-30.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/smoking-pig-bbq-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Smoking Pig BBQ is a barbecue restaurant in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 56 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Barbecue restaurant |
| Address | 1144 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 11 AM to 8 PM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 9 PM · Sun 11 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (408) 380-4784 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 3,387 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Thursday |
| Updated | October 30, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1144 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | This Southern-style BBQ joint slow-smokes ribs, brisket & pork & serves them in a modest setting. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Fri to Sat 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Smoking Pig BBQ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 380-4784 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Brisket | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Catering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Community | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Family meals | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Group dining | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Military appreciation | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Military appreciation meals | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Nellis afb | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Pork | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Ribs | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Sports watch parties | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Youth sports team meals | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/smokingpigbbq | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.smokingpigbbq.net/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 8 services Smoking Pig BBQ offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Catering |  |  |  | From their website |
| Nellis afb |  |  |  | From their website |
| Military appreciation |  |  |  | From their website |
| Youth sports team meals |  |  |  | From their website |
| Family meals |  |  |  | From their website |
| Sports watch parties |  |  |  | From their website |
| Group dining |  |  |  | From their website |
| Community |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Smoking Pig BBQ

Address: 1144 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA. Phone: (408) 380-4784. Hours: Mon to Thu 11 AM to 8 PM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 9 PM · Sun 11 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "This Southern-style BBQ joint slow-smokes ribs, brisket & pork & serves them in a modest setting."


### When to go

Quietest day: Thursday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hunan Taste Restaurant | Chinese restaurant | 4 min walk |
| La bendición | Fast food restaurant | 4 min walk |
| Shark Boy Fish and Chips | Seafood restaurant | 5 min walk |
| LeYou Ethiopian | Restaurant | 5 min walk |
| Pranita's Kitchen | Breakfast restaurant | 5 min walk |
| Rice Junky Katsu | Restaurant | 5 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 3,387 reviews: Google 3,387. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

Smoking Pig BBQ is known for its standout brisket but faces criticism for inconsistent quality and service issues. (AI guess, from 3,387 reviews.)


### What people like

- Beef brisket's tenderness and flavor
- Cajun fries' crispiness
- Burnt ends' smoky flavor
- Mac and cheese's creaminess


### What people do not like

- Inconsistent food quality
- Service delays
- Cleanliness concerns
- High prices for portion sizes


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### Why do people rate Smoking Pig BBQ?


### Busiest day at Smoking Pig BBQ, anyone know?


### bad experiences here, anyone?


### do I need to book Smoking Pig BBQ in San Jose or can I just turn up?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves


### is there a socials account worth following


### Somewhere to park near Smoking Pig BBQ?


### picking between the two, is Mesquite and Oak the safer bet?


### anything good on 4th to kill time near this place?


### what does Smoking Pig BBQ actually get right?


### any last minute tables at Smoking Pig BBQ?


### On a budget in San Jose, is Smoking Pig BBQ the one?


### ordering here online, does that actually work?


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### opening hours here, what are they these days?


### best barbecue restaurant in San Jose


## What AI gets wrong about Smoking Pig BBQ

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Smoking Pig BBQ. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 4 Jackie's Place | 1144 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA |
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 3 Jackie's Place | 1144 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA |


## The AI Score: 56 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose barbecue restaurants run 26 to 57. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Smoking Pig BBQ scores 56, above the San Jose average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Smoking Pig BBQ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 67 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 57 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 51 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a barbecue restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Smoking Pig BBQ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smoking Pig BBQ | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.smokingpigbbq.net/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Smoking Pig BBQ is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the barbecue restaurants in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best barbecue restaurants in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/barbecue-restaurant
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJeQ-ozuLKj4ARMQNfslZXl1c (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
- [2] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/youth-sports-team-meals (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/catering (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/community (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/family-meals (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [6] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/group-dining (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [7] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/military-appreciation (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [8] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/las-vegas/nellis-afb (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [9] smokingpigbbq.net, https://smokingpigbbq.net/san-jose/sports-watch-parties (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [10] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)