{"id":478209,"date":"2026-10-27T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:34:20","slug":"a-former-top-50-bbq-restaurant-closes-south-of-fort-worth-after-28-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478209\/","title":{"rendered":"A former Top 50 BBQ restaurant closes south of Fort Worth after 28 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longoria’s BBQ<\/a>, a two-time Texas Monthly Top 50<\/a> barbecue restaurant known for its housemade brisket sausage made from a closely guarded recipe, has closed, pitmaster David Longoria posted on social media.<\/p>\n

Longoria’s made the magazine’s state rankings in 2003 and 2013 for the beef sausage made with a recipe from Gonzales, the family’s hometown.<\/p>\n

When brother Danny Longoria opened the restaurant in 1998 with parents, Angelita and Fidencio (“Fred”), there were no small-batch craft barbecue restaurants in North Texas and few shops with housemade sausage.<\/p>\n

Years earlier, when Fred Longoria shined shoes in downtown Gonzales, he saw how many customers came for the sausage at that city’s legendary Espinosa’s, which closed in 2012<\/a>, and Gonzales Food Market.<\/a><\/p>\n

Longoria’s was one of the first Latino-owned barbecue restaurants recognized statewide.<\/p>\n

The restaurant also sold some of the region’s first brisket burgers.<\/p>\n

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A smoked brisket burger with pinto beans and potato salad, plus a whole barbecued chicken and pork ribs at Longoria\u2019s BBQ in Everman, Texas, as seen Nov. 22, 2000.<\/p>\n

“HELLO, we are closing BBQ shop,” David Longoria posted Thursday.<\/p>\n

He proudly listed Longoria’s prizes: 12 magazine articles. the top 50 and a Travel Channel episode.<\/p>\n

“I’m closing the doors and cutting the light one last time,” he wrote, adding that he’ll go “on the BBQ trail taking on the visits I never had time [to] make.”<\/p>\n

“C U Guys then. W\/ much Love, Uncle Dave.”<\/p>\n

\"Co-founder<\/p>\n

Co-founder Danny Longoria of Longoria\u2019s BBQ in Everman, Texas, talked about the high price of brisket, as seen March 31, 2010.<\/p>\n

When Food Network host Guy Fieri wanted to feature Longoria’s on :”Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” the Longorias turned him down<\/a> because they refused to give the network their sausage recipe.<\/p>\n

Longoria’s focus on sausage and burgers sometimes confused regular barbecue fans in brisket-crazed North Texas.<\/p>\n

But the restaurant had a 4.2-star rating on Google.com and 4-star rating on Yelp.com.<\/p>\n

Commenters on both sites praised the sausage and burgers and Yelp commenters also took note of the brisket chili,<\/p>\n

Longoria’s is the second regionally recognized barbecue restaurant in south Tarrant County to close in two months.<\/p>\n

The Crowley location of Cousin’s BBQ closed in September<\/a>. Two Cousin’s<\/a> remain open in southwest Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

Hickory Stick Barbecue<\/a> in Everman, a traditional wood-paneled Texas barbecue restaurant, is a readers’ favorite in Star-Telegram polls. Jambo’s Original BBQ Shack in Rendon has also been state-ranked, and the Texas-based Hard Eight and Rudy’s BBQ chains dominate business along Interstate 35W.<\/p>\n

A recent Michelin Star honoree, Goldee’s BBQ, is about 5 miles east near Kennedale and has drawn barbecue fans to Jambo’s, Longoria’s, Hurtado in Arlington or Mansfield and other nearby restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longoria’s BBQ, a two-time Texas Monthly Top 50 barbecue restaurant known for its housemade brisket sausage made from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-478209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478209","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=478209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}