Take a Train to Flavor Town!
This former train depot is my last stop on the Champaign BBQ trail. And Im kicking myself ever since. If this was the first stop, the quest would have ended and I would have spent three days camping outside this establishment.
Cool venue, concrete bar, polite accommodating staff and "to murder a live a cow for" Brisket.
Best brisket in the midwest. I'll stand by that and possibly extent its bounds.
They tackle smoked wings with elegance and the forever elusive smoked salmon with grace. But, ultimately the Brisket is the buy. And seemingly the burnt ends, which ran out twice in our visit.
A note on sides, a smoked sweet potato may change your opinion of this super food. If your child won't eat green beans just give them the Black Dog Beans and force him/her to take a bite and watch them contradict themselves at the table.
Go here. Move in if they'll let you.