The Smoke Daddy

My favorite place in the city for BBQ.  While pork is generally regarded as the king of BBQ meats, their pulled chicken sandwich is the best BBQ sandwich I've ever had.  Its so tender for chicken and their BBQ sauce is the absolute tops.  I have tried their other smoked meats and they are also very good.  The sweet potato fries are a very solid compliment to your entrée.  The beer list is large enough for everyone to find something.  I find that beer goes better with BBQ, so I have not tried their cocktails yet - it seems like a strange pairing to me.

When the weather is nice, make the effort to sit outside as its a great relaxing meal out there.  If you haven't already, be sure to check this place out!

While not directly related to a dining experience there, I find that their BBQ sauce available at stores (Trader Joes?) is just as good as in the restaurant and their regular appearance at Lollapalooza stands makes it a Lolla staple for me.

Overall, this place is a must visit if you are in Chicago and like BBQ.

I used to live about 500 feet from Smoke Daddy, just south of Division on Wood. It was my roommate at the time's favorite restaurant and we would regularly order take out from there, hang up the phone, count to 50 and leave to pick it up. It would almost always be ready by the time one of us got there. If you don't think that's impressive then I feel sorry for your sad, empty existence.

The move here is to get either a combination of ribs and beef or a combination sandwich of pork and beef. As one of your sides, I recommend getting the baked beans, which have so much pulled pork in them, it almost makes it pointless to make pulled pork one of the meats in your combinations. The Smoke Daddy has, in my opinion, the better meat of the 2 Wicker Park BBQ joints, but Lillie's Q's sauces are better. The ribs are clearly slow cooked, as evidenced by the fact that the area around my old apartment regularly smelled like delicious ribs at 9 in the AM.

Really, what I need, and, quite frankly, America as a whole needs, is a transformer-style combination of Smoke Daddy's meat and Lillie's Q's

I have to go back...I had the Daddy sampler, and I enjoyed it, but you never really get a sense of a Q place without going back a few times..