{"id":651100,"date":"2026-03-12T20:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/651100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:55:19","slug":"hutchins-new-barbecue-restaurant-in-dallas-fort-worth-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/651100\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutchins\u2019 new barbecue restaurant in Dallas-Fort Worth is now open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visitors to Dallas Cowboys or Texas Rangers games in Arlington might be able to smell the smoke from The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque<\/a> before they pull into the parking lot.<\/p>\n

The massive new restaurant, open as of March 12, 2026, is situated between Fort Worth and Dallas on Interstate 30. Its 10 puffing smokestacks beckon tourists and locals alike for a bite of brisket. Crowds are welcome; there\u2019s room for more than 450 people in the restaurant\u2019s five sprawling rooms.<\/p>\n

Zack Hutchins, grandson of the restaurant\u2019s namesake and the director of operations, said expanding from Trophy Club into Arlington was important for the company growth.<\/p>\n

Beyond football and baseball fans traveling to D-FW, the FIFA World Cup will bring people from all over the world to Arlington<\/a> in summer 2026. Soccer games will take place less than a mile south of Hutchins.<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for barbecue, it’s hard to miss the massive Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque on the side of Interstate 30 in Arlington, near Six Flags and the Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys stadiums.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to have regulars,\u201d Zack Hutchins said, \u201cbut here, we also have a chance to feed people for the first time \u2014 to give them their first Texas barbecue experience.”<\/p>\n

If the Hutchins name sounds familiar, that\u2019s because namesake Roy Hutchins opened his first barbecue joint in North Texas in 1978. Two Hutchins brothers operate Hutchins Barbeque in Frisco and McKinney, while another brother owns The Original Roy Hutchins in Trophy Club and Arlington. The Hutchins family members were once tangled in a lawsuit<\/a>, but they\u2019ve since called a truce.<\/p>\n

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They now compete for barbecue bragging rights, said Wesley Hutchins, the owner of The Original Roy Hutchins and one of Roy Hutchins\u2019 sons. <\/p>\n

Wesley Hutchins takes a jab that his brothers \u2014 unfairly \u2014 aren\u2019t here to disagree with: \u201cWe feel like we\u2019re just a little bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dozens of chickens smoke in an offset smoker at The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque in Arlington. Zack Hutchins is director of operations and grandson to namesake Roy Hutchins.<\/p>\n

Shafkat Anowar \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

When customers walk up to the restaurant, a former Texas Land and Cattle, they can ask for a free tour of the pit room. Behind a rolling metal wall are three honking offset smokers, mostly used for chicken and pork belly. Next comes a rotisserie smoker so large, M&M BBQ named it Zeus. Spend even a few minutes in there and you\u2019ll leave with a smoky cologne that lingers all day.<\/p>\n

Inside the restaurant, six smaller M&M rotisserie smokers cook the restaurant\u2019s brisket and beef ribs low and slow for as long as 18 hours. Customers can order pork ribs, house-made sausage, turkey and chicken, and they do. But beef is king.<\/p>\n

The restaurant line runs cafeteria style. Staffers will grab one of the big butcher knives magnetized to the wall and slice lean and fatty pieces of brisket to order. <\/p>\n

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Roy Hutchins, the family patriarch, isn’t involved in the day-to-day business at the restaurant named after him. But “the recipes are from Dad,” said Wesley Hutchins, owner of The Original Roy Hutchins. “None of us would be here without Dad.”<\/p>\n

Shafkat Anowar \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

Customers then scoop their own sides, like mac and cheese, fried okra, cold broccoli salad and elotes. Same goes for the peach cobbler, banana pudding and soft-serve ice cream: Dessert is scoop yourself, and you\u2019re allowed to go back for seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe in filling up as much as you want,\u201d Zack Hutchins said. <\/p>\n

In this cavernous room that seats hundreds, with buffet-style barbecue sides, we can already hear the \u201cbigger in Texas\u201d remarks from out-of-towners.<\/p>\n

The Original Roy Hutchins Barbeque is at 1600 E. Copeland Road, Arlington. Open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The restaurant opened quietly on March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors to Dallas Cowboys or Texas Rangers games in Arlington might be able to smell the smoke from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":651101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,7948,26874,1596,9733,9063,988,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-651100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-barbecue","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-restaurant-news","13":"tag-restaurant-openings","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116218201983005255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651100","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=651100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}