{"id":338558,"date":"2026-06-16T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338558\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:29:08","slug":"ribbees-barbecue-joint-to-close-in-fort-worth-june-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338558\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbee’s barbecue joint to close in Fort Worth June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

The restaurant was started by three pitmasters from Goldee’s Barbecue<\/a>, the Fort Worth joint that’s been called the best barbecue spot<\/a>\u00a0in the state<\/a> by Texas Monthly.\u00a0Ribbee’s was designed as a Goldee’s offshoot that focused almost exclusively on ribs \u2014 an uncommon barbecue business model in beefy Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ribbee’s opened in 2024. The founders borrowed an idea from Raising Cane’s and kept the menu small, with fries and a roll as limited options for sides. Ribs remain the focus, but Ribbee’s sells beef back and chicken combos, too.<\/p>\n

White is the sole owner of Ribbee’s today, and he maintains that a ribs-focused restaurant in Texas can work.<\/p>\n

For now, White will turn his focus to a new restaurant he’s opening with\u00a0pitmaster Chuck Charnichart, who owns Barbs B Q in Lockhart. The two are working on a barbecue joint in New York City called\u00a0Kirbee’s. (You’re sensing a naming pattern here.)<\/p>\n

According to White,\u00a0Kirbee’s will serve Texas barbecue in Brooklyn. In addition to smoked meat, Charnichart will sell green spaghetti and White will do cheesy grits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You can get barbecue my way or Chuck’s way,” White said of the New York restaurant.<\/p>\n

As for Ribbee’s, White said he wanted the restaurant near Interstate 35W to stay open. The building has a new owner, with plans for a different restaurant, he said.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t convince them to let us stay.”<\/p>\n

White posted to Instagram that his team is “actively looking for a new home for Ribbee’s.”<\/p>\n

Ribbee’s is at 923 E. Seminary Drive, Fort Worth. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., until June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant was started by three pitmasters from Goldee’s Barbecue, the Fort Worth joint that’s been called the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,88942,95928,88643,89276,89307],"class_list":["post-338558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-barbecue","tag-tp-chefs","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-restaurant-openings","tag-tp-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338558","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=338558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}