Bell's Kitchen & Smokehouse in Franklin Square offers a Nassau born chef's tour of southern food, including fried alligator and a slow-smoked hulking beef rib.

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Bell's Kitchen & Smokehouse in Franklin Square offers a Nassau born chef's tour of southern food, including fried alligator and a slow-smoked hulking beef rib.

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Hearty nuggets of fried alligator are among the highlights at Bell’'s Kitchen & Smokehouse in Franklin Square,

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Bell's Kitchen & Smokehouse joins what has become a dining boomlet in Franklin Square.

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The "dino rib" is a forearm-sized weapon of a beef rib smoked to perfect pinkness for a steaklike result at Bell’'s Kitchen & Smokehouse in Franklin Square.

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The Southern buttermilk fried chicken gets its crackly crisp crust from a mix of flour and cornmeal at Bell’'s Kitchen & Smokehouse in Franklin Square,

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The drive-in burger at Bell's Kitchen & Smokehouse in Franklin Square is a two-patty, 1-pound monster of a sandwich with a nice char.

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Chef and owner Lara Talt, right, works with chief deputy chef Melvin Walker at Bell's Kitchen and Smokehouse in Franklin Square.