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Is Texas Pride BBQ Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3 Adkins, Texas

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Texas Pride BBQ is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 21, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Yelp listing (Aug 2026 update) still shows 487 reviews, current hours, and a working phone number, consistent with the prior check. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Texas Pride BBQ in the "All Kinds of BBQ" episode (aired 2008-07-07), highlighting the restaurant's smoked barbecue plates. Texas Pride BBQ is a barbecue restaurant in Adkins, Texas, east of San Antonio along Loop 1604. Yelp's business listing, last updated 2026-08, shows the restaurant at 2980 East Loop 1604 South with 487 reviews and an active phone line, and is not flagged as permanently closed. The restaurant maintains its own website, texaspridebbq.net, and a separate menu-listing page, texas-pride-barbecue.res-menu.net, carries a menu labeled as a 2026 update, a further signal of ongoing operation. Texas Pride BBQ opened on January 1, 1996, founded by Tony and Joni Talanco along with their young daughter Tara, who continues to help run the family business today, according to a Voyage San Antonio Magazine interview with Tara Talanco.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 3

Episode 13
Aired
Title: All Kinds of BBQ · What was featured: smoked barbecue plates, brisket and sausage
How Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Season 3: 25 of 42 still open · 6 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/texas-pride-barbecue-adkins
  2. texaspridebbq.net https://www.texaspridebbq.net/
  3. voyagesanantonio.com https://voyagesanantonio.com/interview/meet-tara-talanco-of-texas-pride-barbecue/
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Record ddd-0122 · checked by Cal Marchetti.