Texas BBQ favorite Original Roy Hutchins to add second Fort Worth-area location
The Original Roy Hutchins BBQ, a family spinoff from one of Texas’ best barbecue restaurants, will expand from Trophy Club to a new second location this year in Arlington.
The address has not been confirmed. But the Arlington move was announced Jan. 31, along with the news that The Original Roy Hutchins BBQ will be the official barbecue restaurant at Texas Motor Speedway.
The restaurant’s trucks have been parked at a vacant restaurant on Interstate 30 at Nolan Ryan Expressway. The location, officially 1600 E. Copeland Road, is a 7,900-square-foot restaurant built as a Shady Oak Barbeque and later a Texas Land & Cattle.
It is at the exit to AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field.
The new Arlington location is expected to open in summer, according to the speedway announcement.
The Original Roy Hutchins BBQ, 3000 Texas 114, opened as part of a family split with Hutchins BBQ in Frisco and McKinney. But the rift is settled, and family members have gone ahead with different restaurants.
Both restaurants were spotlighted last year when TikTok food critic Keith Lee visited both, not knowing the difference. He told his millions of viewers the two Hutchins flavors are different — the oak is different, for starters — but he still rated The Original Roy Hutchins a 9 out of 10.
The Trophy Club restaurant is a cavernous Hill Country-style barbecue palace, serving prime brisket, beef and pork ribs, house-made original or jalapeno sausage and seared rib-eye steak.
The Original Roy Hutchins BBQ joins an Arlington market dominated by Hurtado Barbecue, a state-ranked craft barbecue restaurant near downtown with a location inside Globe Life Field, and small craft operators such as 225° BBQ, Smoke’N Ash BBQ and Zavala’s in Grand Prairie.
The Arlington area is also home to David’s Barbecue in Pantego, a traditional inexpensive commercial barbecue restaurant carrying on the 115-year-old Arlington and Dallas tradition of the Red Bryan family.
This story was originally published February 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM.
