I live on the 3rd floor of a Southern California condo. Charcoal is so deeply against the CC&Rs that I don't think anyone would seriously consider it for more than a second or two.

And, I live on the 3rd floor of a Southern California condo. My deck is awesome and spacious for what I got - probably 48 sqft - but sit a massive grillmonster out there and there's no room for anything.

I've been rawkin' a Weber Go-Anywhere for about 4 years now.

Problem is, I live in a marine environment. It's thrashed. It's ready to die. I have to light it with a burning Kleenex under the closed cover, which eventually goes WHOOOOOM and lifts the lid up about 4 inches (which I have to hold so that it doesn't plummet 3 stories and take out a neighbor). And last year, Weber "value engineered" the Go Anywhere to the point where it is universally reviled:

It's no lie to say that I've spent 5 hours online searching for a replacement grill. There aren't a lot of choices for small, portable, gas-powered grills that don't suck. And for whatever reason, it never occurred to me to notice that I live in a marine environment with a space roughly the size of a Bayliner's cockpit. I had to wander down to West Marine in a vain search for metric stainless cap screws before discovering the solution:

...not that I have one yet. But it's gonna happen.

ALL THAT TO SAY

I'd ditch it in a minute if I could still cook with mesquite charcoal. There is no substitute.