Ben's Bar-Be-Cue Restaurant

I stopped in for the large tip and hot link combo. This is some of the best bbq in the city! Do not miss this! Strictly take out. I think i at for 3 days with the portion size. Price is great. Wings are also good. Peopke are friendly. Good people working hard making good food. Dont let the neigborhood keep you from stopping in. This are overall is safe but This place deserves better than the low life criminals that occasionally wander the area. I have been there a half a dozen times now. Worth the trip.

I'm saying. So I'm coming back from Maywood yo. And I'm hungry, like a wolf, and I smell smoke, good smoke. BBQ smoke. so like a bloodhound I engage and follow it to it's source, a little cue house on the corner, son.

I'm talking bout first of all, I ordered an extra large tip cause I'm thinking. They probably on some Honey 1 BBQ sh*t  where they be steady ripping off hipsters and yuppies who don't know no better  and me too who do know better but didn't  have no choice because Honey 1 BBQ is the only real BBQ joint in Logan Square. But I don't F*ck with them no more, son. Yea, I can understand Honey 1 BBQ  "coming-up on a come-up", by getting some clandestine  "reparations" for 400 years of slavery by  over charging white folks for miserly proportions. But I'm a Brotha!  So how you gonna juke me?  

But then I remember that this is da hood, son.  And in da hood you can't get away with steady ripping folks off unless you're a JP Morgan Chase, CitiBank or Bank of America investment banker or an elected official.  But any way,  the price was only 13: 89 son instead of the 20 dollars they charge at Honey's!  And my man behind the triple reinforced bullet proof( for all you predatory jackers out there, go else ware!) counter top window, comes back with a Leaning Tower of Pisa made of firm yet tender rip tips dripping with hot and mild sauce, and, not just one, not just two, but THREE slices of Wonder Bread perched atop of it like a White LL Cool J Kangol Cap, you-know-what-I'm-saying? I'm saying though!  So I get it home right, cause it can barely fit in the boot of my scooter and I got a huge cactus also for the ride home, but that's another story. So any way, I get home and unveil this rip tip tower. I'm talking taller than the steeple of the Mormon Temple that's about five miles north of Washington D.C,son!  D.C. ain't go no BBQ, but that's another story.  Any way, so I sample on of these savories.  First I get a powerful burst of hickory infused with cherry wood with a deep hint of allspice. I thought it was cinnamon at first. Then I tasted the spicy zest and saw saw an allspice pepper in the sauce, boyyyyy! I ain't lying. How clever is that?

I ate four of them mutha F*ckers cooked to perfection. I'm talking moist grayish pink on the inside and gently charred on the outside holding it together like a sandwich. And after the third, my belly was swelling, so I put the rest away for tomorrow's dinner, keyed.  I'm saying.

Now lets add up the stars. The taste and quality of the tips, get the highest rating, three stars, son. On value, especially during what is the second American Depression, three stars. Sauce,three stars, and during these pandemic violent times in Chicago, what has become a very important rating, Thug Love, zero stars! Seriously, I saw the white socks and white T-shirt man and the Boot leg C.D man, and the scrape metal man, but no thugs hanging and or slinging, and this is a corner spot, yo.

So you might as well get there son, I'm saying.

On a historical note,

the late great Andre Williams  must have had these tips when he wrote and sang his

legendary songs........

"Rib Tips Part 1 & 2

"Guh Guh Gimme some of dem

RIB TIPS!

Ooh wee, ooh wee
Ooh wee, ooh wee.

" These rib tips show is good!

Ooh wee, ooh wee
Ooh wee, ooh wee.

Gimme some of yours and
I'll give you some of mine

Ooh wee, ooh wee
Ooh wee, oooooooh.........RIB  TIPS!

May I have a toothpick, please

uhmmm uhmm uhmm

RIB TIPS!"