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Is Smoke'N Ash BBQ Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 41 Arlington, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Smoke'N Ash BBQ is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 21, 2026.

What the source shows: Re-checked 2026-09-21: smokenashbbq.net is still live under the 'Smoke'N Ash B.B.Q LLC' title with the same 5904 S Cooper St Ste 110 address and phone number, consistent with the prior verification. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Smoke'N Ash BBQ, an Arlington restaurant that pairs traditional Texas barbecue with Ethiopian dishes and Tex-Ethiopian fusion plates, in the episode "Barbecue, Beignets and Barbacoa" (aired 2025-05-23). According to English Wikipedia, owners Patrick Hicks and his wife Fasicka started the business as a food truck in 2012 before opening the current Arlington restaurant in 2018, adding Ethiopian dishes to the originally barbecue-only menu in 2019. Since the episode, the restaurant's own website has continued to show current activity: a 2026-09-08 check found an active online-ordering system and a same-day last-modified timestamp.

Google Places separately lists Smoke'N Ash BBQ as operational at 5904 S Cooper St in Arlington. The founding history recorded on Wikipedia, the same-day site update, and the operating Places listing are the most recent facts on record for the restaurant since its DDD appearance.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 41

Episode 10
Aired
Title: Barbecue, Beignets and Barbacoa · What was featured: Texas barbecue with Ethiopian fusion specialties
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. smokenashbbq.net http://www.smokenashbbq.net/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke'N_Ash_BBQ
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Record ddd-1548 · checked by Cal Marchetti.