Barbecue
Restaurants can be broken down into not only different restaurant types but also food types as well. Some examples of these may be – Asian, bakeries, barbecue, coffeehouses, desserts, family style, Italian or pizza, Mexican, sandwiches or seafood.
This page deals specifically with the barbecue restaurants. The term as it relates to restaurants is focused on meats (normally chicken and pork) that have been cooked or smoked over a long period of time. This process is normally done over a wood or charcoal-based fire. The food style is popular all over the world in various forms. Some examples of these are Sonny’s BBQ and Gates BBQ.
Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Before we can talk about the barbecue at Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que and Hof’s Hut, we need to go back to a much simpler time in the 1930s where Dirk and Sjoukje (a Dutch immigrant) Hofman…
View PostBill Miller Bar-B-Q
It is difficult to open a successful restaurant today, but it was undoubtedly as tricky or more in 1950 when Bill Miller took a $500 investment (loan) from his dad and opened his first business.…
View PostFamous Dave’s
Dave Anderson grew up in Chicago with love for BBQ instilled in him by his dad who was a Choctaw Indian and loved to smoke BBQ. It was that inspiration and passion that led Anderson…
View PostDickey’s BBQ
Travis Dickey had two things going for him when he opened his first restaurant in 1941, the love for talking and the one to make barbecue. A big personality and the ability to smoke barbecue…
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