{"id":385830,"date":"2026-07-25T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385830\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:29:09","slug":"rising-costs-close-another-houston-area-barbecue-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385830\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising costs close another Houston-area barbecue restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Houston-area restaurant is closing down<\/a>. Wednesday,\u00a0Hiram Clarke BBQ announced it would be shutting down operations after nearly 6 years in business at 2944 S Sam Houston Pkwy. Owners Paul and Martha Jacob said in a statement that rising food and operating expenses<\/a> had made it “impossible to continue.”<\/p>\n

The restaurant’s history stretches back to a different name at a different location. Paul opened Jacob’s BBQ at 14151\u00a0Hiram Clarke Rd. in Southwest Houston in 2019. The Texas Southern University alumni had previously done restaurant management for Shoney’s<\/a> and was the co-founder of a Louisiana music festival before diving into barbecue, Houston Chronicle barbecue columnist J.C. Reid wrote in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul rebranded Jacob’s BBQ to Hiram Clarke when the pandemic hit the same year. The restaurant built a glowing reputation on its “Tex-Lou” sides, a blend of Texas and Louisiana culinary traditions. Signature sides included collard greens and Cajun stew.<\/p>\n

Hiram Clarke’s BBQ had its ups and downs in the years since. A series of thefts<\/a> at the establishment simultaneously endangered the business but also rallied the community to support it. The Jacobs later expanded the restaurant right off Beltway 8 South in 2025, but were forced to close the original due to financial pressures.<\/p>\n

“We are incredibly grateful for every meal shared, every conversation, every review, and every opportunity to be a part of your lives. Your support has meant more than words can express,” the Jacobs wrote in their statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Houston-area restaurant is closing down. Wednesday,\u00a0Hiram Clarke BBQ announced it would be shutting down operations after nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1703,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-385830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronfood","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385830","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=385830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}