Smoke is in the air at the Slab BBQ and the Full Slab

Two new barbecue joints shore up south-side barbecue supremacy. The last five years have been terrible for Chicago barbecue. For reasons I still don’t fathom, a relentless plague of half-assed new barbecue restaurants multiplied as insidiously as split-face concrete block, and provoked a kind of fury in me that would ignite my hair every time I had to sit down and write about it.…