Muskoka BBQ: The biggest change we’re seeing in Muskoka is people looking to optimize multiple outdoor spaces for cooking. As they have gotten used to outdoor cooking at their cottage, they’ve started to see the potential in having different cooking options in different outdoor spaces. Let’s say you have an outdoor kitchen set up at the lower deck of your boathouse. You spend the day there, watching the kids swim, and you prepare lunch on the BBQ, with refrigerated beverages handy.

When the sun starts to go down, though, you might want to be closer to the cottage. The younger kids head to bed, the older kids are inside watching TV or playing board games. Now, as the sun begins to set, you enjoy some quieter time on a patio, where you make dinner in your FONTANA or ALFA pizza oven. Then, in the morning, it’s bacon and pancakes prepared on an EVO flat-top cooker on the deck, where your family members wander out for breakfast in their PJs. People in Muskoka are really starting to understand how they use their outdoor spaces and then make the most of them by tailoring outdoor kitchens and cooking areas to match.

Muskoka BBQ: We’ll start by talking about what kind of cooking you want to do. Are you thinking primarily of entertaining at cocktail hour? If so, we’ll need to include an ice maker and a beverage fridge. Do you typically visit your cottage early and stay into the fall season? We’ll want to include BROMIC patio heaters if you do. How many people will you be cooking for? That will suggest the size of the grill you’ll need. Will you use a side-burner? So, we’ll ask a lot of those sorts of questions.

Where you’re looking at installing a full outdoor kitchen, we’ll come out to your property to view your spaces, so we can help you develop a realistic design that maximizes their potential. At our Design Centre we can show you the different ways we construct our outdoor kitchens, with different masonry and cabinetry options, hardware, and cooking appliances. We have examples of everything from the galvanized steel and aluminum used in framework to finishing options such as stone cladding or clear cedar that can be stained to match your cottage. In our Design Centre you’ll be able to touch the materials and get a physical sense of them, instead of just looking at a photo.

Muskoka BBQ: Absolutely. Many of our clients have long-term plans for their outdoor kitchen areas. With that in mind, we help them begin, usually with a suitable quality BBQ to which they can then add other outdoor cooking appliances, prep areas, and cabinetry year to year. Where Muskoka BBQ is really valuable is in helping you envision your end goal and work towards it with wise investments in quality products that make sense for your plans, your cottage, and your family. We have the expertise to steer our clients away from options that won’t work for their unique space so that no purchase ends up being underutilized.

Muskoka BBQ: We totally understand. Outdoor cooking has exploded in the last decade, and while it was once limited to mostly BBQs (which themselves have really evolved), we’re now also talking about things like TRAEGER smokers, EVO flat-top grills, and FONTANA or ALFA pizza ovens. The great thing about Muskoka BBQ is that we’re not just going to drop off your appliance and drive away. We’re going to be there to support you as barbecue experts.

We’ll assemble your purchase so we know it’s operational and set up safely. We also have an annual servicing program that ensures your outdoor cooking appliances will be tuned up and ready to roll for the season before you get there.

Muskoka BBQ: We are BBQ and outdoor cooking experts. In order to maintain that expertise, we focus on outdoor cooking and related products. So, while we won’t carry every product you might envision for your outdoor cooking and entertaining spaces, we do have longstanding professional relationships with many different product and service providers and contractors throughout Muskoka. We can help you make smart connections for any specific project needs that fall outside the scope of our expertise.

We serve homeowners and cottagers throughout a large part of Ontario. Our service area includes Muskoka, Simcoe County, Collingwood and Blue Mountain, Haliburton, the GTA, and many communities in between. We’ve even completed custom installations as far north as Timmins.