Texas was once Mexican. Texas is Mexican again this November 14 when Heffer BBQ returns to Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at the Kedzie Inn in Irving Park. I’m sure you remember back in September, the last time someone parked a 500-gallon offset smoker outside the bar and the sweet haze of […]
Tag: ribs
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Cookbooks for isolates
Lose yourself in two more local food books, about barbecue and ramen
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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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Q-Tine offers poutine and barbecue for the drunken masses
Logan Square’s Q-Tine specializes in the food of Montreal (poutine) and Memphis (barbecue), and does a decent job of both.
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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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Best Ribs
These meat sticks provide the cheapest legal out-of-body experience.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Heather Garry, corset maker
Heather Garry, corset maker: “People think corseting is antifeminist. Honestly, I think that’s bullshit.”
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Green Street Smoked Meats: Praise god and pass the pork ribs
Brendan Sodikoff’s Green Street Smoked Meats is down-home simplicity just off Randolph Street.
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Q-BBQ: Please make it stop
The Lakeview outpost of suburban minichain gets the same things wrong that they all do.
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Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice
Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice.
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Gogi Korean barbecue reignites the fire
Gogi Korean barbecue reignites the fire.
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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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Among the frum at Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed
Lakeview barbecue sanctioned by the Chicago Rabbinical Council
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Ribfest Chicago
Megafaun, the Heartless Bastards, and 25 tons of pork at this weekend’s Ribfest Chicago
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At Barn & Company, it’s all about the meat
At Lincoln Park’s Barn & Company, it’s all about the meat.