Roll down your car’s window and inhale. Soon you’ll pick up the notes of oak wood and spices wafting from the restaurant’s 72-inch smoker, packed with ribs, chicken, brisket and pork belly.

The recently opened brick-and-mortar version of the popular food truck sits in a corner of the Crossroads shopping plaza on the northeast corner of Royal Palm Beach and Okeechobee boulevards.

It is clear from the first visit that this family-owned barbecue joint is driven by the passion of the Hicks family, helmed by mom Shay and father Marcel.

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