Silverback BBQ

Midwestern values

Chef Silverback (Carl Watson) was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri with traditional, old-school, midwestern family values.

One of six children, he refined his palette for flavor and soul food as the taste tester in his mother's kitchen as she prepared three home-cooked meals a day for her large family.

Taking flavor into his own hands

Chef Silverback always loved food but is forever disappointed by the lack of quality, portion size, and seasoning, of restaurant food.

He learned how to prepare meals from scratch and to properly season his dishes. This served him well as he grew in stature and played football on championship teams from Missouri to Vancouver, Canada, to California, and Arkansas.

Building a business

In 2016, he created Silverback BBQ LLC, and in 2020 built his dream custom smoker custom with the famous GStacks Custom Smokers and Pits who has built custom grills for the likes of Warren G and E-40 and many other celebrities.

Bringing home the hardware

Silverback BBQ won best pork ribs in Northern California three years in a row and gained traction in the Sacramento area catering for weddings, birthday parties, graduations, baby showers, and football games.

Let's go Las Vegas!

A promotion at his day job brought Silverback BBQ to Las Vegas in 2023 where he is ready to bless the area with that good low and slow, wood-smoked, bbq and soul food.