Soul & Smoke - Evanston•Evanston, IL

Barbecue•$$

Soul & Smoke is a Black-Owned, Women-Led BBQ and comfort food brand with 3 locations, 2 food trucks, and a grocery store line. Executive Chef and owner, D’Andre Carter spent years running a Michelin-starred kitchen before leaving fine dining to strike out on his own. Now, for Chef D’Andre and partner Heather Bublick, it’s out with the molecular gastronomy and in with the low-and-slow traditions that Chef came to love while helping his grandmother cook barbecue on the South Side of Chicago.