{"id":178527,"date":"2026-04-28T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:32:07","slug":"sudden-smokey-bones-closures-rock-pittsburgh-bbq-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178527\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Smokey Bones Closures Rock Pittsburgh BBQ Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three remaining Smokey Bones locations in the Pittsburgh region have all closed.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, locations in Tarentum (at Pittsburgh Mills), Cranberry Twp. (Route 228) and Greensburg (Power Line Drive) were all closed.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple posts on social media, the locations closed abruptly and employees were given very little, if any notice.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, the Robinson Township Smokey Bones location closed down.<\/p>\n<p> The chain restaurant offers a menu of BBQ staples including chicken, ribs, pork and more.<\/p>\n<p>Twin Hospitality Group, which owns Smokey Bones, also owns Twin Peaks restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Twin Peaks has a location right near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kdkaradio\/news\/local\/smokey-bones-location-in-pittsburgh-closes-permanently\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">now-closed<\/a> Smokey Bones Robinson location.<\/p>\n<p>KDKA Radio has reached out to Smokey Bones for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Smokey Bones in Erie, PA also reportedly closed suddenly on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three remaining Smokey Bones locations in the Pittsburgh region have all closed. On Tuesday, locations in Tarentum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3727,79717,73,75,74,976,79718,79719],"class_list":["post-178527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-closure","tag-out-of-business","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-restaurant","tag-ribs","tag-smokey-bones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}