Subject: Flameless-Candle with 100,000 hours-worth of light

From: "Luma Candles" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:11:59 -0700

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order for your meal way ahead of time, if not, you could be waiting an hour or so for your order. There was also another time, where my husband waited an hour or so, brought the food home and was given the wrong food... We ordered pulled pork sandwiches, but received a half of slab of ribs and 6 buns....doesn't make much sense...Oh well, people make mistakes. The ribs were good. I have gone back since then, and will continue to go back. I've been coming to Smoque for years, primarily for the brisket, and the last two times (this past Tuesday, and about a month before that as well) it has really been off. Someone else commented that the brisket has been "pot-roastey", and that's spot on. This past Tuesday I ordered one pound of brisket, and the majority of the slices were grey with little-to-no smoke ring. The slices were also mushy and fatty, with almost no smoke flavor...and the bark, well it really wasn't bark. Good BBQ is part art and part science, and with so many variabl
es even the best are going to have an off day now and then....so I'm still giving Smoque three stars. It's quite possible that I just hit it at an off time or a bad day, and I won't give up on it yet. Smoque has definitely earned some leeway, and I hope to raise the rating to 4 or 5 stars down the road. But another bad experience, and I may be done with it. You know a place is going to be top quality when the line of people waiting to order includes BOTH cab drivers and police officers. Smoque did not disappoint, at all. I've spent a lot of time since coming to Chicago trying to find quality bbq (for a city of foodies, our bbq offerings are sorely lacking), and smoque is definitely my go-to place. Highly recommended. Eating in is sort of a pain, the dining room is tiny. And takeout is rough because its in a totally weird location, so your food is cold when you get home. And like all good bbq, it ain't cheap. Its great food though, and honestly, I think bbq is a food that sh
ould be eaten elbow-to-elbow with your fellow diners! I did not love this as much as most of the people on here, apparently, but it was still good. We stopped at the bar before our reservation, and it took more than 5 minutes for the barkeep to even make eye contact, but he was kind and helpful once he decided to acknowledge us (I think I won him over when he described The Great Divide Yeti as "motor oil", and I replied that it sounded perfect and I'll take it--apparently girls only drink light beers out here, I hear??). Our server was attentive, but lacked enthusiasm, and much of a personality, really. She immediately asked if there were any food allergies at the table, which I thought was kind of cool. We started with the sweet potato fries, as we were hungry, and we're having too much trouble narrowing down the options. The table thought they were good, but I currently live in the south, so I wasn't really impressed. My