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Beach Avenue BBQ

Iconic/NotableBrookfield (suburb) · Barbecue Community-sourced, unverified
📍 3453 Grand Blvd, Brookfield, IL 60513

Beach Avenue BBQ has one of the more unusual origin stories in this whole dataset: it was opened by a sitting police lieutenant and his neighbor, which is the kind of detail local papers can't resist writing up — and they did, more than once.

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A Brookfield barbecue joint opened by a police lieutenant and his neighbor, known for whole smoked hogs, a WGN TV feature, and a roadside-attraction-famous giant pig on its roof.

The food backs up the story: brisket, pulled pork, ribs, and genuinely whole smoked hogs, the kind of low-and-slow commitment that takes real equipment and real time, not a quick-smoke shortcut. It's become enough of a local landmark to earn its own entry in a roadside-attraction database for the giant red pig sculpture on its roof, plus a WGN Sunday Brunch television feature.

For a town the size of Brookfield, that's a remarkable amount of genuine, independently-earned attention for one barbecue joint.

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Beach Avenue BBQ

Iconic/Notable
Whole Smoked Hogs
Brookfield (suburb)Community

Hours

Wed-Sat11AM-8PM
Sun11AM-3PM
Mon-TueClosed
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

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❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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