Is Smoque Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update (Chicago, IL)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 2, Episode 6 Aired November 5, 2007

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Smoque BBQ in the "Real Deal BBQ" episode, which aired 2007-11-05, highlighting the restaurant's Texas-style smoked brisket. Smoque is a barbecue restaurant in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on North Pulaski Road, offering a full food menu alongside a separate catering operation. A check of the restaurant's own website, smoquebbq.com, on 2026-09-07 returned an HTTP 200 response with a server last-modified date of 2026-09-08, current posted hours for Thursday through Sunday, and an active online ordering system for pickup and delivery. The site also displayed a customer quote praising the brisket as changing their opinion of barbecue from outside Texas. No news coverage of a closure, sale, or relocation was found in this check.

Food Paradise, Season 18, Episode 1

Food Paradise's "Sweet Home Chicago" episode featured Smoque BBQ, a barbecue restaurant in Chicago known for smoked brisket and other slow-cooked meats. According to the business's own website (smoquebbq.com), which carried a same-day last-modified header on the 2026-09-08 check, the restaurant operates at 3800 N Pulaski Road with posted hours of Thursday 11:00am-8:00pm, Friday and Saturday 11:00am-9:00pm, and Sunday 11:00am-8:00pm, closed Mondays, and offers online ordering for pickup, delivery, and catering. The site's current, dated content confirms the business remains active at its Pulaski Road location.