CT’s Sweets N Meats, a cooking- and baking-centered food trailer and outdoor dining space east of Oak Ridge North, is built on partnership. The husband-and-wife ownership team of Cynthia and Anthony Anastasiades said they founded CT’s to provide customers with a blended menu of savory and sweet handcrafted barbecue and baked goods.
“I’ve been barbecuing just about all my life. She’s been baking,” Anthony said. “She’d always tell me about how she’d love to have a cupcake truck ... and finally, I thought about it; I said, ‘You know what, I’ve always wanted a barbecue business. So why don’t we just combine it and call it CT’s Sweets and Meats, and we’ll just find us a food trailer or a food truck?’”
CT’s—combining the pair’s nicknames, Cyndy and Tony—has offered home-cooked meats such as brisket, pulled pork and sausage alongside larger cupcakes, cookies and brownies since its launch in November 2019. Anthony said he developed CT’s meat selection and flavoring based both on customer preference and a signature spice blend based on the stand’s motto of serving “Amp’d up Texas BBQ.”
“We try to stay with that theme,” he said. “I get tired of ghost peppers and jalapenos and cayenne, and I found the hottest pepper in the world now is the Carolina Reaper. It takes less than an eighth of a spoon for a gallon, and it still has a little k•ick to it.”••Meats are available by the pound on plates or on bread in items such as the brisket grilled cheese. The stand also added breakfast tacos on Saturday mornings this year as well as several baby back rib options made to order on Saturday afternoons.
