For this week, I decided to pair up two different South Knox businesses – one for a savory meal and one for dessert. Fortunately, I found two eateries on/near Chapman Highway – Camps Chicken & Grill and the Sugar Queen Creamery – that would suit my purposes. And they weren’t far from each other. We started our outing at Camps Chicken & Grill, squeezing in a dinner toward the end of their business hours.

As its name suggests, chicken is the featured item at Camps, and we could tell from the elaborate meat-smoking station in front of the main building that we would be looking at barbecue. Their pulled smoked chicken goes into a variety of items, and they serve chicken wings as well, in quantities ranging from 10 to 100.

We looked over the entire menu and chose to pass on starters like tater tots, fried pickles and chicken tenders. They also offer burgers of various sizes, but we decided to focus more on the poultry fare instead. I ordered a signature plate with pulled chicken and went with potato salad and green beans as my two included sides ($14.04) in addition to cornbread. A half-chicken and chicken salad are also available in plate form, and you may also choose just one side if you wish.

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The Spouse looked over a number of bunned options, including a chicken tender sandwich, grilled cheese, a hotdog and a chicken cheesesteak. The Spouse ultimately settled on the chicken quesadilla ($8.31) and went with mac and cheese as the included side. For the record, corn salad, coleslaw, fries, tots and corn on the cob are among the other sides.

We experienced one service-related SNAFU. Although I requested the pulled chicken plate, my order had been taken down as a half-chicken, and that’s what was delivered to our table. The owner happily mitigated the mistake, however, and I wound up being quite pleased with the pulled chicken and homemade sauce that accompanied it. The meat was plenty moist and embodied rich, smoky flavor. The green beans and potato salad were respectable. I gave my cornbread to The Spouse but did think well of the sample bite that I took.

Meanwhile, The Spouse’s quesadilla and mac-and-cheese side were decent. Neither was a stand-out, but both items got the job done. Camps serves some homemade desserts, banana pudding included, but we moved on to a new destination for that phase of our meal.

A few minutes later, we were queued up at the Sugar Queen Creamery (on Young High Pike, just off Chapman Highway), eyeing their array of homemade ice cream flavors. The facility itself made a good first impression. The interior has a homey feel, and there’s plenty of seating both inside and outside.

On any given day, they offer more than two dozen homemade flavors, which can include sweet cream (the default base for many of their sundae creations) as well as coffee with cream, browned butter pecan, cookies and cream, banana pudding, bananas Foster, mint chip, garden tea and Amish peanut butter. You might implement these flavors in a one-, two- or three-scoop cone, cup or bowl; a shake or float; or any of several varieties of sundaes.

The Spouse got two scoops of peanut butter Oreo in a small cup, while I ordered a three-scooper in a large cup – one milk chocolate, one birthday cake, one strawberry – my own Neapolitan creation of sorts.

The service we received was excellent, but I must say that I was disappointed in the ice cream itself. The texture was not-so-creamy – each scoop tasted as if it were laced with ice crystals. And the flavors simply didn’t ring true for me. The birthday cake in particular didn’t taste like any iteration of that flavor I’ve ever experienced before. Even the strongest of my three selections, the chocolate, was marginal.

I don’t say any of this lightly, because I consider myself an ice cream fanatic and can generally find a bright spot in any kind of frozen treat. But in this case, the Sugar Queen Creamery left me a little cold.

Hours: Noon to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays

Address: 106 E. Young High Pike

Hours: Noon to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; noon to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays

These two South Knoxville eateries offer smoked-chicken fare and ice-cream-based treats, respectively.