Dear Hickory River,
I miss you so much. I live in San Francisco now and I still look back fondly on my college years and Hickory River was a big part of it. I went to U of I for 9 years and probably ate here 80 times, and loved it maybe 78 of them. I've never had a more consistently good restaurant experience than this one. My mouth is watering every time I think of the sliced beef brisket with hot sauce and hot link sausage.... soooooooooo fricken good. off the charts... the only bbq I've ever had that was better was Sam's in Austin.
Fee free to send me some sauce and brisket and I'll send you some warm winter thoughts when it's not snowing here.