It's the sister restaurant to Earl's BBQ in Jefferson Park and Pierogi Kitchen in Wicker Park, all run by the same couple, Artur Wnorowski and Gosia Pieniazek, who met at a Polish hip-hop festival in 2007 and have been opening Chicago comfort-food spots together ever since.
The restaurant's own site is thin on specifics — no posted menu, no listed specials — but a 2024 Axios reader roundup singled it out directly: a diner named Matt E. called out the brisket and the smoked wings as the draw, which tracks with a kitchen sharing a pit and a playbook with Earl's. Between the full lunch-through-dinner stretch and the brunch add-on most BBQ spots skip entirely, it reads as the group's most flexible location — the one open the widest window, for whichever meal you're actually hungry for.
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