I pulled into the gravel lot in front of M&M BBQ Company’s fabrication shop in Tool and saw four offset smokers piled behind a chain-link fence like old muscle cars in a scrapyard. They’d been ...
On the streets surrounding Hodges Park in Park Ridge’s Uptown, smoke drifted through the air on an otherwise cool and somewhat rainy day Saturday. Despite the smoke, firetrucks were not needed for the ...
When Caleb and Matt Johnson opened Lockhart’s Mill Scale Metalworks, in 2018, customers had to spend the price of a small car to buy one of the company’s commercial offset smokers, sight unseen. Every ...