Lillie's Q 1-Year Anniversary Party Held 8/1

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), will celebrate it's 1-Year Anniversary Party on Monday, August 1.

McKenna will pass out all the different cuts of his signature 30-pound smoked whole hogs (ham, belly, pulled shoulder, tenderloin, bark) for free to patrons starting at 9pm during the Lillie's Q 1-Year Anniversary Party on Monday, August 1.

Lillie's Q will sell $1 samplers of their latest moonshine cocktail, the Lillie's Q-Rita, for only $1 from opening to closing on during it's 1-Year Anniversary Party on Monday, August 1. The Lillie's Q-Rita is PatRon Silver, Grand Marnier, Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon Carolina Moonshine, and Lillie's Q "Smoky" Memphis-style BBQ sauce, housemade sour mix, and it's rimmed with the Lillie's Q signature "Carolina Dirt" rub.

Lillie's Q will also run a video contest leading up to its its 1-Year Anniversary Party where they will give away for free a 30-pound whole hog with 8 starters and sides for six to eight people that's normally sold for $325 to one lucky patron. To participate, people must make a video of themselves saying and demonstrating why they should win the free whole hog dinner. Participants must post their video on the Lillie's Q Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/LilliesQ ) by noon on Monday, August 1 to be eligible to win. The contest winner will be announced at noon on Tuesday, August 2 on the Lillie's Q Facebook page.

Lillie's Q is also now serving the Lillie's Q-Rita everyday for $10. Lillie's Q is also now serving another moonshine concoction -- Lillie's Oyster Shooter - which features Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon Carolina Moonshine, a fresh raw oyster, and Lillie's Q housemade bloody Mary mix for $6 each.

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 whole pork shoulder category and placed in Top Ten every year from 2006 through 2010 and finished 12th in 2011. 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-10pm Sunday thru Wednesday, and 11am-11pm Thursday thru Saturday. "Like" Lillie's Q on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LilliesQ and follow Lillie's Q on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LilliesQChicago and check out Lillie's Q on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/LilliesQChicago

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