NEW: Smoked Whole Hog Dinners at Lillie's Q

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dave Andrews
Founder, Good Life PR
847.909.5511
dave@goodlifepr.com

Smoked Whole Hog Dinners at Lillie’s Q
25- to 30-pound whole smoked hog dinners with starters and sides for 6 to 8 people coupled with competition BBQ circuit presentation and info session with Chef Charlie McKenna

CHICAGO (January 13, 2011) – Lillie’s Q, where chef/owner Charlie McKenna serves award-winning competition BBQ along with Southern favorites and sides in Bucktown (1856 W North Ave), is now offering 25- to 30-pound smoked whole hog dinners complete with starters and sides for parties of six to eight people for $325.

The locally-sourced hogs will prepped and presented the same way Chef McKenna does on the competition BBQ circuit. The hog will be seasoned with McKenna’s signature 15-ingredient “Carolina Dirt” rub and will be smoked for about 10 hours in the custom build Lillie’s Q smokers.

McKenna will present the fully smoked hog whole tableside and will walk patrons through the hog’s anatomy and prep while conducting a Q&A session. McKenna will then return to the kitchen and will pull and cut the different parts of the hog before re-presenting the cuts to the table while providing additional information.

All of the smoked whole hog dinners will feature the following parts of the hog:
* Ham (pulled)
* Belly/”bacon” (pulled)
* Shoulder (pulled)
* Tenderloin (cut)
* skin/”bark” (cut)
* natural juices from the whole smoked hog as a dipping sauce

Starters and sides included in the smoked whole hog dinners for the table are:
* hush puppies
* fried pickles
* coleslaw
* baked beans
* collard greens
* hand-cut French fries
* hand-cut sweet potato fries
* brioche buns to build sandwiches

The smoked whole hog dinners also include a table reservation. Lillie’s Q does not accept regular dinner reservations.

Reservations for a smoked whole hog dinner must be booked at least 48 hours in advance by calling Lillie’s Q at 773.772.5500. A credit card is required to hold smoked whole hog dinner reservations. Cancelled reservations and no shows will be charged half the amount of the whole hog dinner ($162.50).

For more information please contact Dave Andrews of Good Life PR at dave@goodlifepr.com and 847.909.5511.

About Lillie’s Q: Chef Charlie McKenna (formerly the sous chef at Tru and Avenues) opened Lillie’s Q restaurant in July 2010 specializing in award-winning competition BBQ, Southern favorites and sides in Bucktown as a homage to his family’s deep cooking roots. McKenna has competed on the competition BBQ circuit with his father and friends the last 10 years, and the team won the prestigious Memphis In May BBQ competition in 2007 in the pork shoulder category and placed in top then the past five years. McKenna opened an outpost of Lillie’s Q in Destin, FL with his parents in 2008. At Lillie’s Q in Chicago, McKenna is smoking pork shoulder for pulled pork, tri-tip, baby back ribs, and chicken in two custom built smokers over peach wood and lump charcoal. McKenna began cooking Southern favorites and sides with grandma Lillie and his mother at an early age and those standouts make their way onto the Lillie’s Q menu via shrimp & grits, an individual low country boil, pimento cheese, fried pickles, boiled peanuts, Brunswick stew, baked beans, macaroni & cheese and banana pudding. Lillie’s Q features moonshine-based specialty cocktails (like the “Morning Lillie” that’s a play on a Bloody Mary and the “M&M&M” that’s a mint julep riff), 10 All-American craft drafts (including a specially made copper lager by Chicago’s Metropolitan Brewing that pairs with the BBQ), and a rotating selection of All-American craft bottled beers. Located at 1856 W North Ave (773.772.5500), Lillie’s Q serves lunch and dinner daily from 11am-2am Monday thru Friday, 11am-2am Friday, 11am-3am Saturday, and 11am-2am Sunday. Become a fan of Lillie’s Q on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LilliesQ and follow Lillie’s Q on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LilliesQChicago

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