The Arlington Entertainment District will soon have a new barbecue option.
One of North Texas’ top BBQ families has announced that it will open a new location for the original Roy Hutchins BBQ restaurant near Interstate 30 in North Arlington.
The Roy Hutchins BBQ at Ballpark is located in a 7,900-square-foot building on 1600 E. Copeland Road, once home to Texas Land & Cattle restaurants. Operations Director Zach Hutchins said the renovations began in a new location. The new location will feature a large, expanded covered patio and the best pit rooms. It is scheduled to open someday this summer.
“We’re very excited. We’ve been looking at trying to plan how we can grow and where we should go,” he said. “We actually saw that spot in Arlington before landing at the Trophy Club, but it wasn’t on the market at the time, so we were looking at it. Opportunity.”
The Hutchins name has long been associated with barbecues in northern Texas.
Roy Hutchins, son Wes and grandson Zack have been a non-smoking barbecue since 1978 when Roy’s smokehouse, east of McKinney in Princeton, the town of Colin County, opened.
The facility has gained popularity online ever since opening the door to the original Roy Hutchins BBQ at Trophy Club a few years ago.
Restaurant Chris Carroll said the Hutchins brand is taking place at his former barbecue restaurant and a steakhouse on the corner of Copeland Road and Nolan Ryan Expressway. The restaurant location faces the interstate highway, located in the north end of Globe Lifefield and the parking lot at AT&T Stadium.
“I think they’re special,” Carol, owner of Spring Creek BBQ and Shady Oak BBQ, told Fort Worth Star Telegram. “They do a great job and I’ve known my family for years. I feel really good about it.”
The Hutchins founded their heritage at the McKinney and Frisco locations, and two families split to open the original Roy Hutchins of the Trophy Club.
The family has resolved the differences, but they continue to run a variety of restaurants. However, the Hutchins BBQ and the original Roy Hutchins BBQ are similar in many ways.
“Realistically, if we’re honest, it’s all the same family. I myself, along with some of the other important people here, we all worked for years at McKinney and Frisco. I was there. I myself worked there from 2012 to 2022, so I spent a lot of time there. We’re part of it. Everything is good,” Zach Hutchins said. “Obviously, we had that little problem at first. But I mean, we’re all still cool. We’re still doing Thanksgiving together. Everyone is happy, everyone is cool. Everyone is who I want to see them succeed and grow, and I think we all fall under the same mindset that competition is healthy.”
Arlington already has a strong, stable barbecue restaurant. For example, Lockhart Smoke House runs on Texas Live! The complex Hartad BBQ, based on a mile south of the stadium, operates a location within Rangers Globe Life Field.
The first original Roy Hutchins Barbeque is a two-storey Hill Country-style restaurant and serving line located at 114 Trophy Club’s 3000 Texas Highway. The building was originally home to the Bread Winner Café, but then came to Yeschf, a Cajun/Creole restaurant.
Zach Hutchins and Israel Silva began the concept with the blessings of Roy Hutchins.
Zach Hutchins and Silva said they are continuing Roy’s legacy and strive to build on family recipes dating back to the 1970s. Their goal is to always provide people with a genuine Texas BBQ experience.
Hutchins and Silva have said they have joined forces on their love for smoked meat for the past decade to participate in the Texas Monthly BBQ Fest and a true Texas BBQ at James Beard House and Aspen Food and Wine Classic.
“It was an honor to continue our legacy with Zack and bring to life the BBQ culture that grew up in Arlington and receive the blessings of Roy Hutchins at Ballpark,” he said. says Silva, the neural manager.
Tiktock food critic Keith Lee visited both restaurants and told his millions of viewers that the flavors created by the two Hutchins were different, but he was the original Roy Hutchins restaurant rated 9 out of 10 and said he served his favourite Texas BBQ.
The original Roy Hutchins Barbeque recently announced that it will open in the infield restaurant space, Texas Motor Speedway’s official barbecue restaurant.
Zack Hutchins said they are still working on the menu for the Arlington restaurant and the new Texas Motor Speedway location.
“Arlington, that’s where you want to be. Just because it brings so many people, you want to be in the middle of it,” Zach Hutchins said. “The Arlington community itself is great, but if you add all the extra people that just came from it, they always travel to Dallas-Fort Worth, like those who come to Dallas.
“But Arlington is one of the major draws for those coming to North Texas, and that’s most of them,” he said. “So for us, we can see some of the traffic from all these events, shows, concerts, so it’s just a great opportunity to get that kind of place. Arlington has all sorts of cool stuff. I’m coming.”
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