The mad rush for limited walk-in orders begins at 5:30 PM this Monday, September 19, but you can secure your preorders for this barbecue supergroup right now.
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Barbecue, blues, and circus arts
Windy City Smokeout kicks off a weekend of beer, barbecue, and bands representing both new faces in country music and some old favorites; tonight’s 9 PM headlining set by Willie Nelson and Family, his longtime touring and recording group is a great chance to see a master at work–accompanied by at least one actual Nelson […]
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Dhuaan BBQ Company smokes meat Desi-style
A weekly Pilsen pop-up is moving toward permanence.
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 66
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Christmas around the world
Spend the holiday on a culinary trip around the globe without leaving Chicago.
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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 […]
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Smoke is in the air at the Slab BBQ and the Full Slab
Two new barbecue joints shore up south-side barbecue supremacy.
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Myron Mixon’s Smoke Show BBQ vs. Rylon’s Smokehouse is a no-contest barbecue showdown
Two new barbecue spots perpetuate low standards.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Big chicken at Smalls Smoke Shack
The tiny Irving Park joint does some decent barbecue too.
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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.
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New ‘Cue
Surveying the recent barbecue boom, with reviews of Lillie’s Q Urban Barbecue, the Pork Shoppe, and Rub