{"id":198557,"date":"2026-03-10T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:47:10","slug":"original-roy-hutchins-barbeque-opens-near-cowboys-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198557\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque opens near Cowboys\u2019 stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON<\/p>\n<p>North Texas\u2019 storied Hutchins barbecue family will bring a restaurant to Arlington March 13 when <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royhutchinsbbq.com\/menu\">The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque<\/a> opens on Interstate 30 near AT&amp;T Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>An <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-original-roy-hutchins-barbeque-arlington-grand-opening-ribbon-cutting-tickets-1983880001489?aff=oddtdtcreator&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawQdH7RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8Uuu1WRD6Y8aMCDZQphYq7YBIFp_u13ySvfCIXFxdSQTi_ywKl4GByv1DGM_aem_dwsEmoXit6wruRUqGRFrdw\">online invitation<\/a> announces the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of the restaurant, in a former steakhouse at 1600 E. Copeland Road on the corner at Nolan Ryan Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The location is a half-mile from AT&amp;T Stadium, the home field of the Dallas Cowboys, and 1 mile from Globe Life Field, the home of the baseball Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is opening the same weekend as a Grand Prix IndyCar race March 15 through the Entertainment District.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque in Tarrant County, following a location in Trophy Club at 3000 Texas 114 that has been listed as one of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/article\/top-100-us-restaurants-2025\">top 100 restaurants in the U.S.<\/a> by users of Yelp.com.<\/p>\n<p>                                              <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9855.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" title=\"IMG_9855.jpeg\" alt=\"The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque location on Interstate 30 near AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.\"\/>                                                                                    The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque location on Interstate 30 near AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.                                                                                            Bud Kennedy                                                                            bud@star-telegram.com                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>The Arlington restaurant is a cavernous, 7,900-square-foot Hill Country-style barbecue palace, serving prime brisket, pork and beef ribs, house-made original or jalape\u00f1o sausage and seared prime rib-eye steaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Trophy Club location opened as part of a family split with state top 10-ranked Hutchins BBQ in Frisco and McKinney. But the rift is settled, and family members have gone ahead with different restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Both restaurants were spotlighted last year when TikTok <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/restaurants\/article289892264.html\">food critic Keith Lee<\/a> visited both, not knowing the difference. He told his millions of viewers the two Hutchins flavors are different \u2014 the oak is different, for starters \u2014 but he still rated The Original Roy Hutchins a 9 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>                                              <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6BD92268-A75F-4C60-BF36-8731C06C3376.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" title=\"6BD92268-A75F-4C60-BF36-8731C06C3376.jpeg\" alt=\"Smoked chicken with brisket, sausage and sides at The Original Roy Hutchins BBQ in Trophy Club, as seen May 4, 2024.\"\/>                                                                                    Smoked chicken with brisket, sausage and sides at The Original Roy Hutchins BBQ in Trophy Club, as seen May 4, 2024.                                                                                            Bud Kennedy                                                                            bud@star-telegram.com                                                                                                                                      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_2683.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" title=\"IMG_2683.jpg\" alt=\"The Original Roy Hutchins Barbecue is located at 3000 TX-114, Trophy Club. This BBQ spot opened in 2023 from the same family who owns Hutchins Barbecue. \"\/>                                                                                    The Original Roy Hutchins Barbecue is located at 3000 TX-114, Trophy Club. This BBQ spot opened in 2023 from the same family who owns Hutchins Barbecue.                                                                                             Bud Kennedy                                                                            bud@star-telegram.com                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/222388920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BudKennedy-Profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Bud Kennedy\u2019s Eats Beat\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/222388920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Kennedy\u2019s Eats Beat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Bud Kennedy is celebrating his 40th year writing about restaurants in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has written the \u201cEats Beat\u201d dining column in print since 1985 and online since 1992 \u2014 that\u2019s more than 3,000 columns about Texas cafes, barbecue, burgers and where to eat.<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/star-telegram.com\/subscribe\" style=\"color: #5169B8; text-transform: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON North Texas\u2019 storied Hutchins barbecue family will bring a restaurant to Arlington March 13 when The Original&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,8079,21084,67,78427,63763],"class_list":["post-198557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-att-stadium","tag-i-30","tag-restaurant","tag-roy-hutchins","tag-texas-bbq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198557","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=198557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}