{"id":969643,"date":"2026-07-30T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/969643\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:15:29","slug":"houstons-barbecue-inn-closing-after-nearly-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/969643\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston’s Barbecue Inn closing after nearly 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOUSTON<\/strong> – After nearly eight decades of service in Independence Heights, Houston’s Barbecue Inn<\/a> will be closing its doors for good this weekend.<\/p>\n

Houston Barbecue Inn shutting down <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Multiple reports say the restaurant, located on Crosstimbers and Yale Streets,<\/a> will close after service this Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Barbecue Inn has been in business since 1946. According to the business website<\/a>, the restaurant started as a house with a “storefront fa\u00e7ade” with a barbecue pit.<\/p>\n

A couple, Louis and Nell Skrehot, opened the business, and their two sons became busboys.<\/p>\n

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What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

FOX 26 is working to learn why the Barbecue Inn is shutting down.<\/p>\n

Customers react \"Barbecue \"Barbecue <\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

Facebook is flooded<\/a> with loyal Barbecue Inn patrons sharing their love for the business, memories of previous visits, and disappointment at its upcoming closure.<\/p>\n

News of the closure brought customers to the restaurant on Thursday, starting a line that was wrapping around the business by the afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Barbecue Inn website and Facebook<\/p>\n

Food and Drink<\/a>Independence Heights<\/a>Business<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – After nearly eight decades of service in Independence Heights, Houston’s Barbecue Inn will be closing its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[64,8364,4345,186930,1165,50,358,52,3187,68],"class_list":["post-969643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-business","tag-food-drink","tag-houston","tag-independence-heights","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117010533978731360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969643","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=969643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}