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Tag: BBQ
Posted inCity Life
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 66
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Posted inFood & Drink
Christmas around the world
Spend the holiday on a culinary trip around the globe without leaving Chicago.
Posted inMusic
The Chosen Few Picnic is the homegrown festival every Chicagoan should attend
If you’ve ever wished that more music festivals were like family picnics, then you need to go to this Jackson Park house-music blowout. In the late 80s, DJs and brothers Tony and Andre Hatchett and their families began hosting an annual Fourth of July reunion barbecue behind the Museum of Science and Industry. For the […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Smoke is in the air at the Slab BBQ and the Full Slab
Two new barbecue joints shore up south-side barbecue supremacy.
Posted inBlogs
Myron Mixon’s Smoke Show BBQ vs. Rylon’s Smokehouse is a no-contest barbecue showdown
Two new barbecue spots perpetuate low standards.
Posted inBlogs
Fox News’s barbecue food-list scandal shows the listicle’s pitfalls
Fox News published a barbecue list that’s as white as a cream cheese sandwich at a D.A.R. tea.
Posted inBlogs
The good, the bad, and the really bad—a roundup of three newish barbecue spots
Mike Sula visits Bro-N-Law’s Bar-B-Que, Husky Hog Bar-B-Que, and the Last Pit Stop Barbecue
Posted inBlogs
Of brisket, oysters, and General Tso’s chicken at Old Crow Smokehouse
This barbecue warehouse in the shadow of Wrigley Field has nearly everything you could want except focus.
Posted inBlogs
Ben’s Bar-Be-Cue: On the (very) short list of the city’s greatest barbecue
Real low-and-slow Chicago barbecue from a New Orleans native, without any bullshit.
Posted inBlogs
Big chicken at Smalls Smoke Shack
The tiny Irving Park joint does some decent barbecue too.
Posted inBlogs
More barbecue for the dudes: Sweet Baby Ray’s comes to Wrigleyville
The suburban chain joins Wrigley BBQ and Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed in competing for the year-round crowd.
Posted inFood & Drink
New ‘Cue
Surveying the recent barbecue boom, with reviews of Lillie’s Q Urban Barbecue, the Pork Shoppe, and Rub
Posted inBlogs
Chicago: The Best BBQ Scene in America?
So saith Michael Nagrant (via Grub Street). Helen Rosner thinks he’s trying to start a war, and I don’t disagree, but the comments are thoughtful and well worth reading – especially the part where Nagrant seemingly gives away the game, but in a good way, because I agree: “I think Eastern North Carolina is probably […]