{"id":476519,"date":"2025-12-28T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476519\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:17:50","slug":"top-50-bbq-pitmaster-rejoins-goldees-near-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476519\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-50 BBQ pitmaster rejoins Goldee\u2019s near Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Sabar BBQ<\/a> owner Zain Shafi<\/a>, who started a small Fort Worth trailer serving Pakistani-Tex barbecue and made the state Texas Monthly Top 50 list, is joining the owners of Michelin Guide<\/a>-recommended Goldee\u2019s BBQ, he said this week.<\/p>\n

Shafi told Texas Monthly he will join Jalen Heard, Lane Milne and Nupohn Inthanousay as owners of Goldee\u2019s, a former state No., 1-ranked barbecue restaurant started by Arlington school classmates Heard and Milne on a rural backroad south of Kennedale.<\/p>\n

Shafi joins the partnership in place of co-founder Jonny White, he said. Heard, Milne and White had learned the craft barbecue business in Austin and then came home to open a consistently top-ranked restaurant..<\/p>\n

Shafi worked at Goldee\u2019s, then left to open his own Sabar BBQ in South Main Village. He closed it two weeks ago, saying only that he had a \u201cnew opportunity we couldn\u2019t pass on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabar BBQ was praised in Texas Monthly<\/a> for Shafi\u2019s brisket, seekh-kebab sausage and Sichuan lamb ribs. Sabar was also noted for the spicy lentil stew.<\/p>\n

Goldee\u2019s, 4645 Dick Price Road, opened in 2020 and has always served barbecue from a variety of cultures, notably Laotian sausages.<\/p>\n

The core menu is made up of traditional Texas barbecue classics: brisket, housemade sausages, beef and pork ribs, plus sides and homemade bread.<\/p>\n

\"Zain<\/p>\n

Zain Shafi, the owner of Sabar BBQ, is photographed at his barbecue trailer parked at the corner of East Vickery Boulevard and South Main Street near downtown Fort Worth. <\/p>\n

Goldee\u2019s is usually open weekends for lunch only and will reopen Jan. 2 after the holidays.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s open from 11 a.m. Fridays through Sundays. Lines are long until about 12:30-1 p.m., but the brisket may sell out earlier.<\/p>\n

Goldee\u2019s is 4 miles south of Interstate 20 off Mansfield Highway, or 6\u00bd miles east of Interstate 35W off Everman Parkway and Shelby Road; facebook.com\/goldeesbbq.<\/a><\/p>\n

White continues at Ribbee\u2019s, open Wednesdays through Sundays at 923 E. Seminary Drive, Fort Worth; ribbees.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sabar BBQ owner Zain Shafi, who started a small Fort Worth trailer serving Pakistani-Tex barbecue and made…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,215857,7371,7372,70305,215856,215859,215858,358,70016,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-476519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-barbecue-restaurant","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-goldee","13":"tag-jalen-heard","14":"tag-jonny-white","15":"tag-lane-milne","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-texas-monthly","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115795742723298220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}