San Antonio’s Garcia Barbecue closes after six years in enterprise

Garcia Barbecue, which launched as a pop-up in 2019 earlier than increasing to a brick-and-mortar area final yr, has completely shut down.

“We right here at Garcia Barbecue need to attain out and let everybody know we have now closed up store within the Medical Heart at 9390 Huebner Highway,” the San Antonio enterprise introduced through its social media channels. “We need to thank each one among you for supporting us all through the years on our journey.”

Associates Alex Garcia and Jonathan Garcia — no relation — co-founded the idea in 2019 after tinkering with their very own spice rubs at yard cookouts for family and friends. 

Sensing they had been onto one thing, the self-dubbed “brothers in brisket” constructed their very own smoker and hit the highway in a meals truck — the start of what grew to become Garcia Barbecue. They made it by way of the COVID-19 pandemic, ultimately including a second meals truck to fulfill buyer demand. 

The crew at Garcia Barbecue ultimately made the transition to a full-fledged storefront in 2024. Their Medical Heart restaurant adopted a no-tip coverage for patrons whereas providing up the signature brisket, pulled pork, loaded nachos, brisket tacos and different objects that discovered a following on the meals vehicles. 

SA foodies mourned information of the closure on social media, asking if Garcia Barbecue would at the very least return as a cell kitchen.

Alex Garcia instructed the Present he plans to proceed work on the Dinorito meals truck, which operates from near-downtown food-truck park El Camino. The Garcia Barbecue offshoot presents related menu objects .

Whereas the Medical Heart storefront is closed for good, “a lot of the meals will keep the identical — however at that meals truck,” he added.  

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