Is Hometown Bar-B-Que Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 9, Episode 12

Best Thing I Ever Ate visited Hometown Bar-B-Que in the 'Let's Do Lunch' episode (S9E12), highlighting the Brooklyn restaurant's smoked barbecue menu. Hometown Bar-B-Que is a restaurant at 454 Van Brunt Street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York, with additional locations in Industry City and Miami, according to the restaurant's own website. A Yelp business listing for the Red Hook location, updated July 2026, showed the restaurant active with current reviews and posted hours of Tuesday-Thursday noon-10pm, Friday-Saturday noon-11pm and Sunday noon-10pm, according to Yelp. The restaurant's own website (hometownbbq.com) also listed an active online-ordering system for pickup, delivery and catering. No closure, relocation, or ownership-change notice appeared on the Yelp listing or the restaurant's website during the July 2026 check.

Food Paradise, Season 11, Episode 9

The episode featured Hometown Bar-B-Que's live-fire barbecue, including whole-hog and brisket cooked low and slow over wood smoke in the Red Hook smokehouse. The restaurant's website lists the Red Hook, Brooklyn location alongside newer Industry City and Miami outposts, plus catering and merchandise operations. The site's online ordering system for pickup and delivery was active at last check, with a note that pickup orders are limited to the Industry City location. Google Places lists the Red Hook address, 454 Van Brunt St, as operational.