Avoid Smelling Like Bong Water: A Guide to SF BBQ Joints Open Memorial Day

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Baby Blues BBQ will be slinging ribs on Monday

It makes us cranky: dumping the remnants of rain from the backyard barbecue's inverted lid, then scrubbing the detritus of carbonized chicken skin from the grate. Finish the scouring, the lighting, and the stoking, and you have to face the smoke, all those acrid billows of vaporized pork fat. Sure, we crave barbecue on Memorial Day as much as the next guy, but prefer not to reek as if we'd taken a sponge bath with bong water. Help!

Thankfully, five of the city's 'cue joints plan to open on Monday, slinging rib tips, hot links, and chicken halves for the carbon-averse. It's a holiday -- relax a little. That rusted-out Weber will still be waiting for you on the Fourth of July.

Baby Blues BBQ
3149 Mission (at Powers), 896-4250
11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

Ironwood BBQ
Gate Park Golf Course, 47th Ave. (at Fulton)
751- 8987
10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Lilly's BBQ
705 Divisadero (at Grove)
440-7427
11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Roadside BBQ
3751 Geary (at First Ave.)
221-7427
11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

Zeitgeist
199 Valencia (at Duboce)
255-7505
9 a.m.-2 a.m.