Dinner’s on! Popular BBQ restaurant in Parker County expands with new dinner hours
You can get almost anything at North Texas barbecue restaurants: brisket, pork ribs, sausage, even prime beef carne guisada.
But there is one thing you can’t get at many of the restaurants:
The “Sold Out” sign goes up by midafternoon at some of Texas’ best craft barbecue restaurants, known for making small-batch barbecue and closing when it sells out.
But one of North Texas’ top restaurants is finally planning to serve weekend evenings.
Dayne’s Craft Barbecue, 100 S. Front St. in Aledo, will begin serving dinner Fridays and Saturdays after years when dinners begged Ashley and Dayne Weaver.
Friday and Saturday night service will start April 11-12.
Why Texas BBQ is tougher to find at dinner
Dayne’s added a new smoker and a night crew to smoke barbecue from mid-afternoon until about 8 p.m., Ashley Weaver wrote in an email.
That’s why some restaurants stick to lunch hours. It doesn’t just take extra waitstaff to serve at night. It takes fresh barbecue.
Panther City BBQ, one of the rwo Michelin-recognized restaurants in Fort Worth, serves dinner Wednesdays through Sundays. But Goldee’s BBQ, also Michelin-recognized and Texas Monthly’s most recent No. 1 restaurant, serves only a few hours of weekend lunch. (A spinoff, Ribbee’s, is open five afternoons a week.)
“We will still be open until we ‘sell out’ — but we will plan to sell out closer to 8 p.m. than 4 p.m.,” Ashley Weaver wrote.
Dayne’s was in ‘Landman’s’ ‘Patch Cafe’
Dayne’s has grown rapidly since it moved from the Weavers’ front yard to weekends at a farmer’s market, then to a temporary home on Camp Bowie Boulevard West.
(That building is now the set for TV’s “Landman” as the “Patch Cafe.”)
The Weavers finally found a permanent home in a well-worn Aledo burrito shop along the Union Pacific railroad tracks through the heart of town.
It’s popular for “OG burgers,” for brisket or house-made sausage and for sides such as Flamin’ Hot street corn or a banana-bourbon dessert.
The menu also includes items such as beef ribs, a brisket bologna melt sandwich and bean Friro pie.
Dayne’s also serves house-made kolaches from 7 a.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.
It’s open for lunch Wednesdays, for breakfast and lunch Thursdays, for breakfast through dinner Fridays and Saturdays (beginning April 11-12); and lunch Sundays; 682-789-6590, daynescraftbarbecue.com.
This story was originally published March 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM.
