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New Portuguese-style smokehouse already a hit amongst community

July 19, 2019   ·   0 Comments

By Makayla Pereira

Since opening early last week Orangeville’s newest Sul Irmaos Smokehouse has been a hit.

It’s southern Louisiana style BBQ crossed with the Portuguese fusion, says head chef and owner Jonathan Pereira.

Mr. Pereira and his family recently moved their restaurant business to Orangeville after opening their first restaurant in 2012.

Sul Irmaos Smokehouse was a popular restaurant of Brampton for many years before the Pereira family closed the doors and began a new adventure of catering and opening a food truck.

Their catering and food truck services continued for many years and seemed to always be a popular food option for the public, Mr. Pereira says the food truck and catering was doing as well as the restaurant in Brampton did, “so that’s when we decided it was time to settle down again and reopen the restaurant.” 

The Pereira family had already purchased the building in Orangeville when they decided to start renovating and re-creating Sul Irmaos Smokehouse.

The restaurant is a representation of the dishes Mr. Pereira says his family would often eat growing up which has always be a part of his heritage but with his own twist on it. The restaurant features many classic Portuguese dishes such as the rotisserie or smoked chicken which is marinated in their spices as well as the Portuguese fish fillets, rice, and potatoes. 

Many of their other dishes served at the Smokehouse represent that Southern Louisiana BBQ mixed with the Portuguese flavour. 

“In the States they have po’ boys sandwiches and we took that and put a spin on it,” Mr. Pereira said. “They use all seafood and here we took a smoked meat a protein and added fried stuff to it.”

Mr. Pereira explain how Sul Irmaos Smokehouse achieved that authentic flavour.

“Here you get the southern BBQ style from the States but instead of using their style of marinade we use our own rubs that we grew up with. We do use the same type of cooking process with smoking our meat for about 14 and ½ hours daily.”

The most popular dishes at Sul Irmaos Smokehouse Orangeville seems to be the classic Portuguese style chicken, Mr. Pereira explains that many of their other dishes are also selling extremely well.

The Sul Irmaos Smokehouse will still continue their catering business but for now it’ll be done straight from the restaurant. “We’re doing catering for any type of event such as baptism, communions, or even weddings, whatever it is we do,” explained Mr. Pereira

The food truck has been set aside for now while the family focuses on the high volume of business they have been experiencing at their new Orangeville location. Mr. Pereira says he wants to make sure he has all hands on the restaurant.

“Being a new business owner in Orangeville has honestly given me the best feeling, since we opened in Brampton in 2012. This is the happiest we’ve been in a long time. 

“We love the way everyone in Orangeville supports small businesses and just to see since we’ve been open for one week so many customers have come back literally every day since the day we’ve been open.”

He added, “I can say 100 percent were not planning on moving any time soon.”

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