The Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse seats 383, with the addition of an area for private dining.

The appetizers menu features elevated barbecue classics and items like these deviled eggs with a bite of Smoked Berkshire Pork Belly with pickled onions.

Teams from other concepts helped open the Plano smokehouse, sporting t-shirts that indicated their helping role to guests.

The Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse offers spins on the traditional barbecue side dishes with pit-smoked pork and beans, poppy-seed cabbage slaw, buttered collard greens and turns and this Mac & Cheese, which features large cavatappi-like pasta and a crisp buttered-cracker crust.

The Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse beverage program expands well beyond that of a traditional barbecue spot, with grouped flights of whiskey as well as a large selection of wines and craft beers (which are available in a 34-ounce pour). The cocktail program includes this Sunnyland Spritz, which features Beefeater Pink gin, house-made fassionola syrup (the prime ingredient in the class Hurricane cocktail), Riesling, Prosecco and mint ($9).