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Posted inMonday Night Foodball

Texas returns to Mexico with Heffer BBQ at the next Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula November 9, 2022November 21, 2022

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 […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Cookbooks for isolates

by Mike Sula July 27, 2020August 18, 2021

Lose yourself in two more local food books, about barbecue and ramen

Posted inBlogs

Myron Mixon’s Smoke Show BBQ vs. Rylon’s Smokehouse is a no-contest barbecue showdown

by Mike Sula January 30, 2017August 18, 2021

Two new barbecue spots perpetuate low standards.

Posted inBlogs

Q-Tine offers poutine and barbecue for the drunken masses

by Julia Thiel August 5, 2015August 18, 2021

Logan Square’s Q-Tine specializes in the food of Montreal (poutine) and Memphis (barbecue), and does a decent job of both.

Posted inBlogs

The good, the bad, and the really bad—a roundup of three newish barbecue spots

by Mike Sula September 18, 2014August 18, 2021

Mike Sula visits Bro-N-Law’s Bar-B-Que, Husky Hog Bar-B-Que, and the Last Pit Stop Barbecue

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Ribs

by Mike Sula June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

These meat sticks provide the cheapest legal out-of-body experience.

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Heather Garry, corset maker

by Anne Ford April 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Heather Garry, corset maker: “People think corseting is antifeminist. Honestly, I think that’s bullshit.”

Don't waste precious stomach space on the Frito pie (center) or the hot link (left). Do gorge on everything else.
Posted inFood & Drink

Green Street Smoked Meats: Praise god and pass the pork ribs

by Gwynedd Stuart April 18, 2014August 18, 2021

Brendan Sodikoff’s Green Street Smoked Meats is down-home simplicity just off Randolph Street.

Posted inBlogs

Q-BBQ: Please make it stop

by Mike Sula March 17, 2014August 18, 2021

The Lakeview outpost of suburban minichain gets the same things wrong that they all do.

The restraint shown with the burger allows a full appreciation of the thick, flame-kissed patty.
Posted inFood & Drink

Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice

by Mike Sula January 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice.

The starkest difference between Gogi and any of the remaining Korean barbecue houses in the city lies in the quality and freshness of these protein choices.
Posted inFood & Drink

Gogi Korean barbecue reignites the fire

by Mike Sula October 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Gogi Korean barbecue reignites the fire.

Posted inBlogs

Ben’s Bar-Be-Cue: On the (very) short list of the city’s greatest barbecue

by Mike Sula September 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Real low-and-slow Chicago barbecue from a New Orleans native, without any bullshit.

Posted inBlogs

Among the frum at Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed

by Mike Sula March 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Lakeview barbecue sanctioned by the Chicago Rabbinical Council

The Features looks like a band that enjoys ribs
Posted inMusic

Ribfest Chicago

by Luca Cimarusti June 6, 2012August 19, 2021

Megafaun, the Heartless Bastards, and 25 tons of pork at this weekend’s Ribfest Chicago

Combo 2 with mac ’n’ cheese and coleslaw
Posted inFood & Drink

At Barn & Company, it’s all about the meat

by Sam Worley September 29, 2011August 19, 2021

At Lincoln Park’s Barn & Company, it’s all about the meat.

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