After years of travel, Beaufort BBQ maestro finds a home on the waterfront. Here’s where
Traveling barbecue maestro Roscoe Green and his wife and business partner Danielle have decided to put down roots in a tiny but iconic building on the Beaufort waterfront after years of selling Green’s famous “Roscoe Ribs” and other signature South Carolina favorites from a food truck with a mobile pit.
At the end of 2025, YoYo’s Ice Cream left its long-time location on the edge of Waterfront Park on Scott Street as it consolidated two locations into a single store on nearby Bay Street.
That left an opening for a new tenant at the small but ideally located Scott Street building overlooking the city’s famous Waterfront Park.
Marquith “Roscoe” Green and his wife, Danielle, the owners of the Beaufort-based Mother Smokin’ Good BBQ food truck and catering business, jumped at the opportunity to establish a home base for their well-known brand at such a high-profile location.
“Now we actually get to sit tight and expand our offerings in one spot,” Danielle told the Beaufort Gazette and Island Packet. “People say, ‘Oh my God, this is small. But we’re coming from a food truck.”
She admits that transforming the tiny space into a barbecue business will take creative planning. The building at 101 Scott St. is 350 square feet on the inside and 100 square feet on the outside. But it will be take-out only.
Outside barbecue pits aren’t allowed in the area, so Roscoe’s big commercial smoker will be located in the building.
The couple is anticipating a May opening.
“It’s a great location,” Roscoe says, “and you usually don’t have locations like that become available.”
Roscoe envisions customers picking up their food and eating in the park, where they can enjoy the views of the Beaufort River and Woods Memorial Bridge.
The move by the food truck owners into the downtown location is the second big barbecue restaurant development in the city in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, couple Kristen Miklinevich and Sam Kochan, opened Bordertown BBQ in the former Home Slice Pizzeria at 2001 Boundary Street behind Starbucks. It mixes Texas-style barbecue, Mexican street flair and Southern hospitality.
Mother Smokin’ Good’s barbecue and menu
The Mother Smokin’ Good food truck, with a built-in smoker, debuted in 2014, traveling to events and festivals across Beaufort County and the Savannah area and as far away as Florida. Green’s South Carolina-centric barbecue quickly developed a faithful following. Danielle joined the business in 2021. Roscoe is the pitmaster and Danielle handles catering, events and “everything else.”
The menu includes the signature dish of pulled pork ribs called “Roscoe Ribs,” which were once featured on “Moonshiners: Smoke Ring,” a cooking show on Discovery Plus. Another favorite is the BBQ stuffed potato, which is overflowing with gooey cheese, crispy bacon, smoked pulled pork and drizzled with a secret house-made barbecue sauce.
Smoked turkey legs have been a big hit at festivals.
Hash, locally popular cuts of meat, and sides like yams, collard greens and black-eyed peas, along with “gold barbecue sauce,” round out a menu with a decidedly “South Carolina-centric” flavor.
“We just keep it simple,” Roscoe says.
Danielle says she often hears people talking about Texas barbecue but “We’re in South Carolina. We have our own style, and it’s wonderful, and we want to showcase that. People forget that South Carolina has its own wonderful history with barbecue.”
Brothers Bruce and Ronald taught Roscoe how to cook barbecue on the open pit the traditional way -- “low and slow.”
Roscoe grew up in Brooklyn, New York but his mother, Sarah Green, a South Carolina native, sent him to the Lobeco farm north of Beaufort where she grew up, for holidays and the summers. “We worked the farm with her all summer,” Roscoe said of his grandmother Louise Wright.
Today, Roscoe and Danielle and their family live on the farm.
The food truck business and travel
Travel is a necessity of the food truck business, which specializes in catering large events.
Just two weeks ago, the Mother Smokin’ truck was parked in Lake City, Florida. It will be in Myrtle Beach for a St. Patrick’s Day festival later this month.
Danielle and Roscoe have been looking for a permanent location for two years.
“That’s what we always wanted, was to be here and serve our customers here and basically carry on the barbecue tradition of old,” Danielle says.
While they will continue to operate the food truck, the couple looks forward to less travel and spending more time on the ground in Beaufort near their customer base.
“We always get the same question, ‘Where can I find you? Where can I find you?’” says Danielle, who got tired of replying, “Check social media.”
“What we wanted was one stable place to go,” she said.
This story was originally published March 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM.
