{"id":98872,"date":"2025-12-17T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:01:10","slug":"socal-grilling-company-is-serving-up-bbq-in-southwest-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98872\/","title":{"rendered":"SoCal Grilling Company is serving up BBQ in Southwest Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoCal Grilling Company, a new barbecue restaurant in southwest Bakersfield, has opened its doors, offering a unique blend of industrial and country themes. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PHOTO: KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/af9f3834-d5d3-4232-8f9f-18afa5892a49-IMG_3424.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Owner Alex Ruiz, whose two veteran played a big role in the concept of the restaurant , said, &#8220;We need to do something cool in the southwest, something a little bit more American, barbecue, industrial.&#8221; The restaurant features cement columns and wood accents, reflecting Kern County&#8217;s agricultural and industrial roots. <\/p>\n<p><p>KBFX DVR_WINDOW<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz plans to honor veterans by dedicating a wall to them, displaying 20 photos of veterans. The menu boasts popular items like tri-tip, barbecue ribs, pulled pork and creative sides such as sweet potato bombs. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been eating tri-tip ever since we got to Kern County,&#8221; Ruiz said, recalling the discovery of the dish in 1995 when he and his family moved from Los Angeles to Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p><p>KBFX DVR_WINDOW<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>SoCal Grilling Company is located at 8020 District Blvd, across from Home Depot, and is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoCal Grilling Company, a new barbecue restaurant in southwest Bakersfield, has opened its doors, offering a unique blend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-98872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98872","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=98872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}