{"id":141818,"date":"2026-01-20T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141818\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:56:09","slug":"fresno-welcomes-back-a-local-chef-who-is-opening-his-celebrated-barbecue-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141818\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno welcomes back a local chef, who is opening his celebrated barbecue restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A full-circle culinary journey continues in Fresno on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Matt Horn grew up in town before taking the national stage, and he&#8217;s officially bringing his critically acclaimed barbecue home.<\/p>\n<p>FOX26 reporter Alexis Govea spent the morning at Horn Barbecue ahead of the grand opening.<\/p>\n<p><p>Alexis Govea previews the grand opening of Horn Barbecue<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a really nice, big dining room for families to be able to come create events, create memories,&#8221; said Horn. &#8220;This is something that&#8217;s really cool, we have like a little stage, we&#8217;re going to be doing live music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Horn says he wanted to create a space for families to build and create experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno restaurant is Horn&#8217;s fourth location, but the first in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s a full circle moment,&#8221; said Horn. &#8220;Whenever you go out, and you leave your home, you want to come back and do something really great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grand opening takes place on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the new location in Granite Park, located at Cedar and Dakota Avenues in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hornbarbecue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to visit the Horn Barbecue website.<\/p>\n<p>Follow on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hornbarbecue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hornbarbecue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A full-circle culinary journey continues in Fresno on Tuesday. Chef Matt Horn grew up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-141818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}