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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Q-BBQ Named a Michelin ‘Bib Gourmand’ Restaurant

The La Grange restaurant is one of 64 Chicagoland diners in the guide’s 2013 recommendations for dining at under $40.

The 2013 Bib Gourmand awards in the 2013 Chicago Michelin guide include 19 new restaurants, including the three-year-old Q-BBQ of La Grange. Q-BBQ is one of only 12 of the 64 named Bib Gourmands in the suburbs, and the only one in the Lyons Township area. “It really is a testament that we do make great food here,” said restaurant owner Michael LaPidus. “Our service is just over the top and our staff that we’ve assembled downstairs is really an [asset] to this award.” The restaurant, formerly a Roly Poly location, celebrated its third anniversary in October. It specializes in traditional Texas-style barbeque with meat smoked in-house and dishes made from scratch. Bib Gourmand awards are the elite Michelin guide’s “value” recommendations, …

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

If You Want to Eat at Q-BBQ, You Will Have to Dine Inside

In a unanimous vote Monday, La Grange village trustees denied Q-BBQ’s request to build a year-round outdoor enclosure for additional seating.

Village of La Grange trustees denied a request from Q-BBQ for a special use permit to add an outdoor structure for additional seating next to its restaurant at Monday night’s meeting. At a Plan Commission meeting on July 10, commissioners voted 4-1 that the request be denied as well. The commission’s denial was largely because the design of the structure would not comply with requirements of Illinois Accessibly Code. Although Q-BBQ revised its design of the outdoor structure prior to the La Grange Village Board meeting, the issue was more of a “philosophical” one, said Trustee Mark Langan, who led Monday’s meeting because Village President Elizabeth Asperger was out of town. “The code issues were resolved,” Langan told his fellow trustees…

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