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’CUE IT UP An Endless Supply of Slow-Smoked Ribs According to the BBQ cognoscenti, superior ribs should be fall-off-the-bone tender. Rub concurs, so they’ve added a sauce-slathered 12-hour smoked pork rib to their menu. And they’re honoring it with an all-you-can-eat special. Always a better idea than the commemorative wet-nap. 411: Available Wednesdays through May 31, Rub BBQ, 208 W 23rd St, 212-524-4300

First, take a moment to compose yourself and bask in the sauce-slathered glory of your previous BBQ conquests—the pork, the ribs, the sausage, the meat coma. Now take what you remember, toss in a little Southeast Asian intrigue, sprinkle a good amount of rare foreign spice and house it all in a three-story copper-and-wood-decked industrial palace, and you start to get an idea of what you’re in for when you make the BBQ pilgrimage to Brooklyn.

When you arrive from your journey—parched, fatigued, famished—you’ll find the simple meat and rum delicacies you were seeking out waiting for you: a few Dark & Stormys, some other spicy cocktail concoctions and a laundry list of tender, varied meat treats: Pork Spare Ribs, Lamb Shoulder, Red Curry Rubbed Duck and maybe a little Seafood Sausage.

But if you’re game for getting your hands dirty, you’ll want to order up a plate of the make-your-own buns, complete with a housemade bao bun, Wagyu brisket, chili jam, aioli and red onion.

Every pilgrimage should end with make-your-own buns.

Fatty ‘Cue
91 S Sixth St
(at Berry St)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-599-3090