Originally Posted by
linglingfool
Tried Wrigley BBQ at 3555 N. Broadway for the first time last week.
Service was also quick and friendly, and is just a few blocks from Wrigley should you have the misfortune of being in the neighborhood.
At the risk of getting hyperlocal and making it really obvious where I live / who I am, there are like seven separate neighborhoods in the mile between the Addison & Southport intersection and the lake.
1) Southport Corridor
2) Wrigleyville (the post-college residential part)
3) Wrigleyville (stadium and bars inhabited by recent grads of Big 10 schools)
4) Wilton/Fremont/Reta streets
5) Boystown (Halsted)
6) Broadway & Pine Grove
7) Lake Shore Drive
Each of these areas has their own distinct population, character, flavor, and experience. Don't knock the entire area based on neighborhood #3 above. It's a single part of it, it's easily avoidable, and all of us behaved the exact same way when we were 23.
Focus: go back to Wrigley BBQ and get the pulled pork with sweet potato fries. Delicious as always last night.