Here’s something new at Heim Barbecue. And it includes bacon
The home of bacon “burnt ends” has added bacon breakfast biscuits.
Now established as a dominant barbecue restaurant in Fort Worth and Dallas — with suburban locations coming in Burleson and Parker County — Heim Barbecue is opening mornings and serving scratch biscuit sandwiches and breakfast tacos.
What began as a taco take-out stand has expanded to a breakfast menu, featuring biscuit sandwiches with Heim’s new house-smoked bacon, egg and cheese ($6.99).
“We’ve really tried to make an effort to listen to our guests and one of the biggest things we heard was ‘earlier and bigger breakfast menu,’ ” co-founder Travis Heim wrote in an email.
The response was “crazy,” he wrote.
Heim had been serving tacos in late mornings, sometimes to a line of cars wrapped around the parking lot at the west side location, 5333 White Settlement Road near the West Fork.
Now, all three locations open weekdays at 7 a.m., weekends at 8 a.m. (Lunch begins at 11. The home base at 1109 W. Magnolia Ave. is open daily, but the river location is closed Mondays.)
The thick, fist-sized bacon-and-egg sandwich is served on Heim’s new biscuits, a fast favorite.
Choices also include brisket-and-egg, jalapeno sausage, Heim’s pork-belly “burnt ends” or another meat.
The tacos ($5.49) with house-made salsas remain available, now with morning coffee or, after 10 a.m., with a bloody mary or mimosa.
The breakfast menu adds both Heim locations to a list of popular morning options:
▪ On the Near Southside, Heim joins Derek Allan’s, 1116 Eighth Ave. in offering barbecue at breakfast.
Other southside breakfast cafes — all picking up business while the Paris Coffee Shop is dark for remodeling — include Brewed, Esperanza’s Restaurant & Bakery, Hot Box Biscuit Club, Old Neighborhood Grill, Paco’s Mexican Cuisine and Salsa Limón.
▪ On White Settlement Road, Heim is the newest breakfast option along with Day Break Cafe, Gemelle, Lettuce Cook, Pearl Snap Kolaches and the 1947 aluminum diner that now holds another Salsa Limón.
Heim’s breakfasts are also served at its Dallas location, 3130 W. Mockingbird Lane near Love Field.
A recent Burleson groundbreaking launched construction on what eventually will become the fourth Heim, a two-story location with a music stage at 135 W. Ellison St. Heim said he’s looking for a Parker County location, too.
Heim, listed among Texas Monthly’s Top 50 barbecue restaurants in Texas, opened in 2014 as an East Hattie Street food truck. It moved in 2017 to a full-scale restaurant and bar on West Magnolia Avenue.
To beat the line at lunch or dinner, order the Heim family pack online: two pounds of any meats, two quarts of side dishes and a quarter-pound of burnt ends, plus banana pudding ($89.99, feeds four or more); heimbbq.com.
This story was originally published September 13, 2021 at 5:45 AM.
