Milwaukee’s barbecue community is about to sustain a loss. Heaven’s Table BBQ (5507 W. North Ave.) is closing on Oct. 7, a move that owner Jason Alston says “is time.” Between teaching in the culinary arts program at MATC and his community work, he says he was ready. And this: “I got tired,” he says.

After starting Heaven’s Table in 2018 with a location in the now-closed Crossroads Collective food hall on the East Side, Alston opened his brick and mortar in 2021.

Alston didn’t start his career in the restaurant industry making BBQ. Before Heaven’s Table, he worked in the kitchens of restaurants-no-longer, such as Umami Moto and Mikey’s. The cooking he grew up with inspired him to start his own concept. Barbecue was “something I grew up seeing my grandparents and my uncles making, and i

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