Finally, Heim BBQ will open a Weatherford restaurant. The Burleson location is moving
Heim Barbecue, the restaurant that launched Fort Worth’s fame as the “barbecue capital of Texas,” will open a Parker County location, a company spokesman said this week.
Heim is acquiring a property and plans to open around midyear, the spokesman said. The yet-unannounced location is in Weatherford.
On Dec. 29, Heim will close its Burleson location at 139 W. Ellison St. in that city’s Old Town.
It’s one of four Heim locations in a company that stretches from Dallas to west Fort Worth.
Reviews on social media sites often comment that the Heim in Burleson has good food but that customers expected the 9,400-square-foot, two-story restaurant to be more crowded.
The location faces the Old Town pedestrian plaza and backs up to a side street away from major thoroughfares. It was not easy to find when it opened in December 2023.
Former operating partners Emma and Travis Heim founded Heim in 2014 as a food trailer on East Hattie Street. The location is now home to Panther City BBQ.
Riding the Texas craft barbecue craze, the Heims expanded to a restaurant and bar at 1109 W. Magnolia Ave., then added a location in west Fort Worth and another in Dallas near Love Field.
Known for candied pork belly “bacon burnt ends,” Heim Barbecue expanded its menu in recent years to include burgers, smoked chicken and house-made corny dogs.
It was ranked an honorable mention in Texas Monthly’s list of the state’s top 50 barbecue restaurants. But few restaurants on the list serve regular lunch and dinner hours six days a week.
The Heims stepped away from the restaurants in March, leaving the same management team in place under investor Will Churchill.
Weatherford, a city of nearly 40,000 residents, has grown sharply in recent years as Fort Worth spreads west and Parker County draws upscale ranchers and horse breeders.
It was recently a setting for scenes in the Paramount Network series “Yellowstone,” produced by Parker County rancher Taylor Sheridan.
