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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 11, 2021
Dhuaan BBQ Company smokes meat Desi-style

A weekly Pilsen pop-up is moving toward permanence.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Sheal Patel, Dhuaan BBQ Company, Indian food, barbecue, Indian barbecue, BBQ, Desi food, Amul cheese, pepper and egg, Philly cheesesteak, masala, Gujarati food, frankie rolls

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 27, 2020
Cookbooks for isolates

Lose yourself in two more local food books, about barbecue and ramen
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Soup & Bread, Ramen_Lord, Craig Meathead Goldwyn, Clint Cantwell, Mike Satinover, barbecue, ribs, Leor Galil, AmazingRibs.com, Amazing Ribs Made Easy, Everything You Need to Know About America’s Favorite Food, Reader Recipes: Chicago Cook and Drinks at Home, Giuseppe Tentori

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Apr 15, 2020
Grill your way through the pandemic

Leela Punyaratabandhu’s new cookbook Flavors of the Southeast Asian Grill is a remedy for isolation.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Leela Punyaratabandhu, Flavors of the Southeast Asian Grill: Classic Recipes for Seafood and Meats Cooked Over Charcoal, Thai food, shesimmers.com, Southeast Asia, COVID-19, coronavirus, Barbecue

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Mar 8, 2019
Recommended
Give yourself a tongue lashing at Friend BBQ and Gao's Kabob Sports Grill

Two new Chinatown spots warn of the coming northern-barbecue outbreak.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Chinatown, Friend BBQ, Gao's Kabob, Lao Pi, barbecue, Richland Mall, A Place by Damao, Recommended

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Feb 8, 2019
Recommended
Smoke is in the air at the Slab BBQ and the Full Slab

Two new barbecue joints shore up south-side barbecue supremacy.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, BBQ, Slab BBQ, The Full Slab, barbecue, Chicago barbecue, Smoque, Lem's Bar-B-Q, Bro-N-Laws Bar-B-Que, Recommended

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Mar 7, 2018
Recommended
Lamar Moore takes the kitchen at the Currency Exchange Café

Theaster Gates’s Washington Park restaurant may be setting the stage for a soul-food comeback.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Currency Exchange Café, Theaster Gates, Washington Park, coffeehouse, coffee shops, south-side restaurants, Lamar Moore, Smoke Daddy, Tanta, barbecue, Miss Lee's Good Food, Lem's, State Street, soul food, soul bowl, Ars + Public Life Initiative, University of Chicago Arts Incubator, Bing, Gladys' Luncheonette, Izola's, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 1, 2017
Recommended
Strawdog's Barbecue scores an 11 on the Honey Boo Boo scale

Robert O’Hara skewers the showbiz of race in this sly satire with a twist.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Barbecue, Robert O'Hara, Strawdog Theatre, Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre, Damon Kiely, Celeste M. Cooper, Anita Deely, Barbara Figgins, Deanna Reed-Foster, Ginneh Thomas, Abby Pierce, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 17, 2017
The Chicago moviegoer’s guide to bucking summer blockbusters

Skip the popcorn movies in favor of a season full of dynamic screenings.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Summer Guide, Black House Cinema, Portrait of Jason, Shinemen, Petty Biennial Film PRogram, Raising Bertie, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Working Girls, Car Wash, The Match King, Melvin & Howard, The Old Fashioned Way, Chicago International Film Festival, The Taste of a Country, Barbecue, Good Business, Gene Siskel Film Center, Le Silence de la Mer, Un Flic, Bob le Falmbeur, Le Samourai, Army of Shadows, Two Men in Manhattan, Leon Morin, Priest, Music Box, Office Space, Waiting for Guffman, New York Dog Film Festival, Best in Show, Idiocracy, Facets Cinamatheque, Silent Film Society of Chicago, The Lost World, Terror in the Aisles, Friday the 13th, DuSable Museum of African American History, Suzanne, Suzanne

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2017
Myron Mixon’s Smoke Show BBQ vs. Rylon’s Smokehouse is a no-contest barbecue showdown

Two new barbecue spots perpetuate low standards.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, barbecue, BBQ, Honey 1 BBQ, Myron Mixon's Smoke Show Barbecue, Rylon's Smokehouse, brisket, ribs, pulled pork, rib tipe, hot links

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 14, 2016
Dan Whitaker & the Shinebenders work hard for hard-working country fans

Plus: ESS hosts its ninth annual Experimental Garage Sale, Myth Fest debuts with an ambitious bill of international electronic music, and more.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Dan Whitaker and the Shinebenders, Dan Whitaker, Shinebenders, Truck Ride, Cole’s, Bernice’s Tavern, country, Stony Island Stomp, Booze Is Good, Experimental Sound Studio, Experimental Garage Sale, ESS, ninth annual, circuit bending, electronics, raffle, Myth Fest, Myth Festival, Irish American Heritage Center, Jonas Rathsman, Waze and Odyssey, Tyree Cooper, Hieroglyphic Being, Steve Mizek, Savile, Argot Soundsystem, Contintental, ten years, birthday, anniversary, barbecue, bar, Humboldt Park

Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2015
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.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Q-Tine, poutine, barbecue, Logan Square, Montreal, Memphis, Merguez Banquise, ribs, classic poutine, Q Philly Steak

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2015
At last, here's hunter beef pastrami, the Low and Slow way

It's Pakistani pastrami.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Cooking, One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, hunter beef, corned beef, brisket, Pakistani food, barbecue, Gary Wiviott, Colleen Rush, Low & Slow 2: The Art of Barbecue, Smoke-roasting, and Basic Curing, Low and Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons, Barn & Company

Blogs, Bleader Mar 31, 2015
The long day of a BBQ man, continued

With a food truck and a standalone BBQ spot, Joe Woodel has a long day of smoking ahead of him every day.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Husky Hog Bar-B-Que, Joe Woodel, Bridgeport, barbecue

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2015
Video
Honey 1 Barbecue is moving to Bronzeville and taking Chicago's barbecue heritage with it

The only south-side style barbecue on the north side is heading down south.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Honey 1 BBQ, Robert Adams, Southern Pride, barbecue, aquarium smoker, bucktown, bronzeville, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2014
Alice's Bar-B-Q is still smoking in Bronzeville

A classic, decades-old south-side barbecue joint keeps on keeping on.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Alice's Bar-B-Q, barbecue, Bronzeville, rib tips, Maraca, Lem's, Barbara Ann's, Gregory Johnson

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 10/5: Taste Talk's All-Star Cookout, CHIRP Record Crawl, and Slaughter & the Dogs

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, October 5
- By Megan Thielking
- Tags: Do This, Taste Talk's All-Star Cookout, barbecue, Slaughter & the Dogs, CHIRP Record Crawl, vinyl

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2014
Barbecue heaven is for real and it's in Kentucky

Kentucky's Knockum Hill BBQ smokes the mother of all pork chops
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, barbecue, Kentucky, Knockum Hill Bar-B-Q, Oscar Hill

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2014
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
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Bro-N-Laws Bar-B-Que, barbecue, bbq, ribs, rib tips, aquarium smoker, Husky Hog BAr-B-Que, The Last Pit Stop Barebcue, Calvin Woods

Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2014
Video
First visit: Evanston's Smylie Brothers Brewing Co.

At this new Evanston brewpub, a veteran of Arcadia Ales debuts with a half-dozen solid, easy-drinking traditional styles.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Smylie Brothers, Smylie Brothers Brewing, Evanston, barbecue, brisket, Chris Rimer, Brad Pulver, Mike Smylie, Arcadia Brewing Company, Arcadia Ales, In Fine Spirits, California common, Cali Common, dunkelweiss, porter, pale ale, IPA, farmhouse ale, Purple Line, smoke, Smoque, Ufomammut, Godlike Snake, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 16, 2014
Supermarket barbecue that's better than it should be

This Todd guy at Mariano's knows what he's doing.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Mariano's, Todds BBQ, barbecue, brisket, pulled pork

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Apr 18, 2014
Recommended
Green Street Smoked Meats: Praise god and pass the pork ribs

Brendan Sodikoff's new Texas-style barbecue joint is down-home simplicity just off Randolph Street.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Green Street Smoked Meats, Brendan Sodikoff, Dillman's, Texas, barbecue, Chartreuse Mule, ribs, smoked salmon, Frito pie, hot links, Mesquite, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2014
One bite: Ajida's curry age mono ramen

A mediocre Loop ramen joint has one saving grace.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Ajida, ramen, Japanese food, tonkotsu, tonkatsu, curry, miso, noodles, barbecue, Q-BBQ

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2014
Q-BBQ: Please make it stop

The Lakeview outpost of suburban minichain gets the same things wrong that they all do.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Q-BBQ, barbecue, ribs, brisket, Smalls Smoke Shack, Ben's Bar-Be Cue, Ravenswood Q, Old Crow Smokehouse, Wrigleyville BBQ, Rib's Backcountry Smokehouse, County Barbecue, Milt's Barbecue for the Perplexed, Rust Cohle, True Detective, Matthew McConaughey, Michelin Guide

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2014
The return—and departure—of Larry Tucker at Ravenswood Q

A north-side barbecue pioneer returns to Irving Park Road
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Ravenswood Q, Larry Tucker, N.N. Smokehouse, N.N. Spice Island, Smoque, barbecue, Honey ! Barbecue

Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2014
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.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Old Crow Smokehouse, barbecue, BBQ, Tony Scruggs, MasterChef

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