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The family behind the smoker

Chef Brandon Timberlake - Chef Grewsum to most of Boise - cooks the way his grandmother taught him: feed people like you mean it.

From Sunday dinners to the Boise Bench

Brandon learned to cook at his grandmother's Sunday dinners, where food was how the family said everything that mattered. Years later, he and his wife Adrianni packed up their girls and moved from Las Vegas to Boise with a little smoker nicknamed HogZilla and a plan: bring flavors Idaho hadn't had before, and treat everyone who showed up like family.

The first pop-ups were small - Super Bowl Sunday on the Boise Bench, a folding table, a line of neighbors. Word traveled. The pop-ups moved downtown, weekends in front of Pengilly's Saloon on Main Street, feeding the late-night crowd until the trays ran empty. Local TV came calling - KTVB's Idaho Today and Idaho News 6 both ran features on the family changing Boise's street-food game.

Today it's a full catering operation: weddings in the Sawtooths, corporate events for a hundred-plus guests, and still those weekend nights downtown. Ask Brandon about it and he'll tell you he's not your normal chef - he's down to earth, he's chill, and he just wants to cook for you.

What we believe

Food brings people together. That's the whole mission. Every plate that leaves the rig carries a little of that grandmother's-house feeling - happiness and love, served hot, to the Treasure Valley.