{"id":110511,"date":"2026-01-04T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:36:27","slug":"this-iconic-austin-bbq-restaurant-is-opening-its-first-location-outside-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110511\/","title":{"rendered":"This iconic Austin BBQ restaurant is opening its first location outside Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/article\/terry-blacks-barbecue-new-braunfels-opening-21217428.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:iconic Austin barbecue restaurant\u2019s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">iconic Austin barbecue restaurant\u2019s<\/a> first venture outside of the Lone Star State is a go after permits were officially issued in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas-based Black Family Hospitality, which owns Terry Black\u2019s Barbecue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/news\/2025\/12\/29\/terry-blacks-barbecue-nashville-permit-open.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:landed two permits;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">landed two permits<\/a> worth nearly $12 million to expand to Tennessee, the Austin Business Journal reported. New Terry Black\u2019s and Opal\u2019s Oysters locations will open at 1220 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., near Nashville\u2019s historic Germantown neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first permit is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epermits.nashville.gov\/#\/permit\/4747320?orderBy=fullAddress%20ASC,permitNumber%20ASC&amp;page=1&amp;searchText=1220%20Rosa&amp;searchCode=ADDR&amp;searchType=permit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:worth $9 million;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">worth $9 million<\/a> and covers construction of two full-service restaurant shells with a shared kitchen. The second permit is <a href=\"https:\/\/epermits.nashville.gov\/#\/permit\/4747317?orderBy=fullAddress%20ASC,permitNumber%20ASC&amp;page=1&amp;searchText=1220%20Rosa&amp;searchCode=ADDR&amp;searchType=permit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:worth $3.42 million;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">worth $3.42 million<\/a> and will cover build-out costs. The work will be performed by Eshelman Construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The permits were issued on Dec. 22, but Nashville&#8217;s ePermit portal shows multiple construction permits for the project are still pending. The timeline for completion of the project has not been shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DINING GUIDE:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/project\/austin-2025-food-guide-best-restaurants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Austin&#039;s Best Restaurants of 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Austin&#8217;s Best Restaurants of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terry Black\u2019s Barbecue was founded in 2014 in Austin by the Black family and has since expanded to brick-and-mortar restaurants in Dallas,\u00a0Lockhart, Waco and Fort Worth. The Black family opened the original Black\u2019s Barbecue in Lockhart in 1932, but family disagreements led them to create a new entity through which to\u00a0establish Terry Black\u2019s in Austin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family\u2019s other venture, Opal\u2019s Oysters, started in Waco in 2024 and offers an upscale seafood menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An iconic Austin barbecue restaurant\u2019s first venture outside of the Lone Star State is a go after permits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,11297,49237,134,133,46698,49239,49238,26550],"class_list":["post-110511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-american-statesman","tag-austin-business-journal","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-barbecue-restaurant","tag-black-family-hospitality","tag-terry-black","tag-terry-blacks-barbecue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}