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Old Aug 2, 2002 | 9:27 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by E:
Sweet Willie,

Have you seen the July issue of CHICAGO magazine...bet 'Que around town. Make sure to cehck it out!
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of course! just as my subscription runs out. I'll make certain to pick up a copy.
Thanks.

As for Chicago que, I just ran into a BBQ joint on Howard (the border of Chicago and Evanston), and I do mean ran into. I backed into this place w/a UHaul trailor, thank Heavens UHaul's equipment is usually so beat up, they did not notice my rearranged gate.

Crash aside, the place I speak of is Buffalo Joe's. There are two more locations, one on Clark in Evanston and the other is ?.

I wanted to hate this place, typical neon colored signs advertising specials, Buffalo Joe's even looks very franchised. But I was hungry and had not had any Q for awhile so the green neon colored sign advertising great rib tips caught my eye.

Rib tips were tender w/a nice amount of charring. Lots of sauce, but it is not a very sweet sauce. Served over Very good fries (for some reason a tough thing for Q joints to serve well). I brought back some for the guys at our worksite. All agreed it was some tasty Q.

While there is better in Chicago Metro area, Buffalo Joe's sure was a tasty meal.

Small ribtip meal is $5.29, large is $8.59 and serves three.
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