Frontier BBQ and Smokehouse

Frontier BBQ and Smokehouse runs on a single premise: pay once, then build the plate yourself out of a smokehouse spread that keeps coming back. The all-you-can-eat format is the point, and the first plate writes itself — Frontier's Famous Smoked Beef Brisket, baby back ribs, BBQ pulled pork, and crispy broasted chicken, with baked beans and mac and cheese filling the gaps between them. The kitchen has worked this Fallsview-corridor dinner format since 2016, sitting on Stanley Avenue close enough to the tourist crush to draw the crowd, far enough into a focused barbecue identity that it has never tried to be a generic buffet. Most places this near the Falls sell convenience; Frontier sells appetite.

The spread is deeper than the four headline meats. Beyond the brisket and ribs, the grill turns out farmer's sausage, smoked BBQ chicken legs, smoked wings, and a bacon-wrapped meatloaf, and the hot buffet runs chili, super sweet baked beans, and a daily chef's soup alongside homestyle mac and cheese. There is an Ultimate Potato Bar and a brisket hash for the diners who treat sides as a course of their own, a soup-and-bread station that closes the gaps, and house-made BBQ sauces to swing each plate sweeter or sharper. Buffalo chicken sliders sit on the handhelds end; apple crumble and s'mores wait at the dessert end. The breadth is built so a table of mixed appetites rarely fights over the same thing twice.