Honky Tonk Barbeque

4.0

6 Reviews

$30 and under

Barbecue

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Honky Tonk is family-run and located in the Pilsen neighborhood just a couple miles southwest of the Loop in downtown Chicago.

We serve our meats in the traditional Memphis-style--dry rub, roasted with wood and charcoal and the sauce always on the side. Our dry rub is the perfect combination of salty and sweet, pepper and spice. Three house-made sauces are served for your enjoyment: Chicago Sweet, Memphis Tangy, and Carolina Mustard-Butter-Garlic.

Prime Brisket and Premium Pork are roasted for 14 hours over a wood burning fire pit. Slow and low makes for perfect tenderness and a tasty smoky combination. St. Louis Spare Ribs and Baby Back Ribs are likewise slow-smoked for 6 hours until they are just right juicy and tender.

Sides are zesty and full flavored, the perfect compliment to the meats! And remember, all our sides are vegetarian or vegan. Even our two red BBQ sauces are gluten-free! Regardless what kind of diner you are, everything we serve is healthy!

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Party Size

2 people

DateTime

Mar 24, 2023

7:00 PM

Booked 7 times today

Order delivery or takeout

Options

Additional information

Dining style
Casual Dining
Cuisines
Barbecue, Comfort Food, Vegetarian
Hours of operation
Thu 4:15 pm–10:30 pm Fri 4:15 pm–10:00 pm Sat 1:00 pm–10:00 pm Sun 1:00 pm–7:00 pm
Phone number
(312) 226-7427
Website
http://honkytonkbbq.com/
Dress code
Business Casual

Location
1800 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608-3214
Neighborhood
Pilsen
Parking details
None

Bacon Candy
- (1)$7.00
- (3)$20.00
Fried Green Tomatoes$13.00
Vegetarian Empanadas$14.00
Manchego Cheese - Shiitake Mushrooms Corn -Peppers
Girlfriend Salad$14.00
Spring Greens - Jiciama-berries - Walnuts - Goat Cheese - House Dressing
Goat Cheese Salad$14.00
Warm Goat Cheese Rounds - Spring Greens Garlic Soy Dressing
Classic Wedge Salad$13.00
Iceberg Wedge - Blue Cheese - Bacon Tomatoes - House Garlic Chive Dressing
Corn Bread Muffins
- (1)$3.00
- (4)$10.00
Tim's Brisket Chili$10.00
Add Mac & Cheese
Smoked Jumbo Wing
Mango Habanero-Buffalo, Soy Ginger Serrano, Garlic Butter-sweet BBQ
- (3)$12.00
- (5)$18.00
Garlic Bread$5.00

Sandwiches

Sub Garlic Bread on Sandwich Add $3

Pulled Pork$13.00
Beef Briskets$15.00
Dinky Dunkers$14.00
Pork/Brisket
Pulled Chicken$13.00
Hot Link$11.00
Portobello Mushroom$12.00
Fried Green Tomato BLT$14.00

Sides

Reg $5, Large $12, Family $18

Mac & Cheese
Garlic Mash
Candied Yams
Coleslaw
Savory Beans
Beans with Pork
+$2
Southern Style Greens
Portobello Mushrooms

Smoked Meat

Add a Side Hot Link $5

Delux Personal Platter$27.00
Choice of Pork Or Brisket, 1 Side Hot Link & Corn Bread
Personal Platter$21.00
Choice of Pork Or Brisket & 1 Side
Baby Back Ribs
Slaw & Hawaiian Roll
- Full$29.00
- Half$19.00
St. Louis Ribs
Slaw & Hawaiian Roll
- Full$28.00
- Half$18.00
Smoked Chicken
- Full$18.00
- Half$12.00
Ribtips$12.00
Full Slab Chopped

Sampler Platter

$48. No Substitutions

Half Rack of Ribs & Half Chicken
Dunkers (1 Pork Brisket)
2 Hot Links & Slaw
Savory Beans
2 Corn Muffins

Sweets

All Served as Classic Parfaits

Banana Pudding$10.00
Peach Cobbler$10.00
Butter Pound Cake$10.00
With Bourbon a Sauce

Soda

Buy 6 Pack for Kitchen Crew $15; 6 Packs to Go $15 PBR & Old Style

Cola$3.00
Diet$3.00
Sprite$3.00
Lemonade$3.00
Ice Tea$3.00
Sweet Tea$3.00
Squirt$3.00
Cheerwine$3.00
Orange Cream$3.00

Cocktail

Moonshine$11.00
Whiskey, house spice cherry syrup, lemonade
Lonely Presbyterian$11.00
Whiskey, bitters, Ginger Ale, Lemon juice
Paloma$11.00
Tequila, Grapefruit juice, Squirt, Chamoy & Tajin Rim
Dirty Harvey$13.00
Classic Harvey Wallbanger, With OJ & Blavod Black Vodka
The Beat Down$12.00
Mezcal, Pear liqueur, pineapple, dash of Beet juice, Tajin pineapple wedge
Honky Old Fashioned$12.00
Whiskey, bitters, house spiced cherry syrup, soda finish
Southside Sunset$12.00
Tequila, Peach, Oj, dash of beet juice, Chamoy & Tajin Rim
Night Negroski$13.00
Campari, Sweet Vermouth, Blovad Black Vodka
Black Salt Margarita$13.00
Guava or Strawberry

Whiskey-Bourbon

Basil Havden
Bulleit
Bulleit Rye
Makers Mark
Knob Kreek
Rye-Maple-Reg
Crown Royal
Jameson
Reserve
Jim-Jack-Jameson
Powers
Journeyman
Tin Cup
Tullamore Dew
Jempelton Rye

Scotch

Johnnie Walker
Red & Black
Glenmorangie
Laphroaig 10 Yr
Dewars

Mezcal

Banhez
Wood-Light
Floral-Smoke
Rosaluna
Carmel-Cinnamon-Citrus
Wahaka
Earth-Light Smoke
Light Sweet
El Guel
Warm-Slight
Smoke-Smooth
Madre
Smoke-Earth-Dark
Cherry
Monte Alban
Slight Smoke

Tequila

Chinaco Cazadores
Repo & Blanco
La Gritona
Zarpado
Libelula

Beer

Modelo$6.00
Blue Moon$7.00
Corona Familiar$7.00
Brickstone APA$8.00
Revolution Hazy Hero$7.00
Guinness Can$8.00
Anti-Hero$8.00
Lone Star$4.00
PBR Tall Boy$4.00
Old Style$4.00
Coors Banquet$5.00
Miller Lite$5.00

Featured Drink

Bacon & Brew$11.00
Old Style & Stick of Bacon Candy
Chicago Handshake$10.00
Old Style & Merlot
Bacon Handshake$15.00
Old Style + Malrot + Stick of Bacon

Wine-Seltzer-Cider

Right Bee Cider$7.00
Ace Pear Cider$7.00
White Claw$7.00
Topo Chico Seltzer$7.00
Glass of Hose Wine$8.00
Red or White
Can of Rose$7.00
Malbec$9.00

To Go Tall Boys

PBR or Old Style
- 6 Pack$15.00

What 6 people are saying

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4.0

4 based on recent ratings

3.8Food
3.8Service
4.1Ambience
4.1Value

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JenJen
Chicago
64 reviews
vip
4.0
64 reviews
Dined 6 days ago
overall4food5service3ambience3
What a great find! Best brisket I've ever had! And the fried pickles are so delish. Went with a few friends after an art opening in Pilsen. Left right as live music was starting, but will definitely come back for dinner and music.
JC
JeffC
Indiana
1 review
5.0
1 review
Dined on March 16, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Good ribs and nice atmosphere! Enjoyed my time here.
DC
DebbyC
Chicago
2 reviews
vip
5.0
2 reviews
Dined on February 17, 2023
overall5food5service5ambience5
Excellent service from Ariel! Food was delicious - my friend and I split a bunch of stuff so we could try as much as we could. Favorite side - yams!
OT
OpenTable Diner
Chicago
3 reviews
vip
3.0
3 reviews
Dined on January 16, 2023
overall3food2service1ambience4
Just not a good experience over all, the reason why we were unhappy were a few things. 1. We made a reservation for 8 and got a table for 6, so 2 our friends had to leave. The bigger table (for 8-10 ppl) was giving to a couple. 2. We were there for like 2 hours and only interacted with the waitress like 5 - 6 times. 3. We seated with dirty plates and empty drinks for a while, I mean a while. The food runner was more attentive than other staff. 4. Bottom line, go for the music and the candied bacon, Diet Coke also was great.
OT
OpenTable Diner
Tulsa
1 review
1.0
1 review
Dined on January 1, 2023
overall1food1service2ambience1
I ordered the brisket and it was all fat no meat. The food tasted like cafeteria food not good at all.
OT
OpenTable Diner
New York Area
1 review
1.0
1 review
Dined on December 3, 2022
overall1food1service1ambience1
Restaurant wasn’t even open

FAQs

Honky Tonk Barbeque does offer delivery in partnership with Postmates.

Honky Tonk Barbeque is rated 4 stars by 6 OpenTable diners.

Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable.

Make a reservation

Party Size

2 people

DateTime

Mar 24, 2023

7:00 PM

Booked 7 times today

Order delivery or takeout

Options

1800 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608-3214

Additional information

Neighborhood
Pilsen
Hours of operation
Thu 4:15 pm–10:30 pm Fri 4:15 pm–10:00 pm Sat 1:00 pm–10:00 pm Sun 1:00 pm–7:00 pm
Cuisines
Barbecue, Comfort Food, Vegetarian
Dining style
Casual Dining
Dress code
Business Casual
Parking details
None

Website
http://honkytonkbbq.com/
Phone number
(312) 226-7427

Honky Tonk Barbeque

Make a reservation

Order delivery or takeout

Options

Additional information

Starters

Bacon Candy

Fried Green Tomatoes$13.00

Vegetarian Empanadas$14.00

Girlfriend Salad$14.00

Goat Cheese Salad$14.00

Classic Wedge Salad$13.00

Corn Bread Muffins

Tim's Brisket Chili$10.00

Smoked Jumbo Wing

Garlic Bread$5.00

Sandwiches

Pulled Pork$13.00

Beef Briskets$15.00

Dinky Dunkers$14.00

Pulled Chicken$13.00

Hot Link$11.00

Portobello Mushroom$12.00

Fried Green Tomato BLT$14.00

Sides

Mac & Cheese

Garlic Mash

Candied Yams

Coleslaw

Savory Beans

Beans with Pork

Southern Style Greens

Portobello Mushrooms

Smoked Meat

Delux Personal Platter$27.00

Personal Platter$21.00

Baby Back Ribs

St. Louis Ribs

Smoked Chicken

Ribtips$12.00

Sampler Platter

Half Rack of Ribs & Half Chicken

Dunkers (1 Pork Brisket)

2 Hot Links & Slaw

Savory Beans

2 Corn Muffins

Sweets

Banana Pudding$10.00

Peach Cobbler$10.00

Butter Pound Cake$10.00

Soda

Cola$3.00

Diet$3.00

Sprite$3.00

Lemonade$3.00

Ice Tea$3.00

Sweet Tea$3.00

Squirt$3.00

Cheerwine$3.00

Orange Cream$3.00

Cocktail

Moonshine$11.00

Lonely Presbyterian$11.00

Paloma$11.00

Dirty Harvey$13.00

The Beat Down$12.00

Honky Old Fashioned$12.00

Southside Sunset$12.00

Night Negroski$13.00

Black Salt Margarita$13.00

Whiskey-Bourbon

Basil Havden

Bulleit

Bulleit Rye

Makers Mark

Knob Kreek

Rye-Maple-Reg

Crown Royal

Jameson

Reserve