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Sabar BBQ, a Texas Monthly Top 50 barbecue joint in Fort Worth, has closed for good. Earlier this month, owner Zain Shafi announced on Instagram that Saturday, December 20, would be its final day of service. But Shafi isn’t done with barbecue. He recently bought an ownership share in Goldee’s, also in Fort Worth, where he first began his journey as a pitmaster. The joint’s other owners include Jalen Heard, Lane Milne, and Nupohn Inthanousay.“If this opportunity wouldn’t have happened, we were going to take the next step [with Sabar],” Shafi said. After two years of running Sabar BBQ out of a small trailer in a parking lot, Shafi felt the business was at an inflection point. His first instinct was to expand by opening…The post A Former Goldee’s Pitmaster Returns as an Owner appeared first on Texas Monthly.
This story was originally published in December 2021 and has been updated. For years, Texas Monthly published a single guide to cover all the barbecue in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Then Fort Worth—as well as the Mid-Cities—suddenly became the most exciting place in Texas for new barbecue joints. Panther City and its suburbs are now receiving the honor of their own directory. In the June 2025 issue we published our list of top fifty barbecue joints, along with fifty more worthy of honorable mentions, but our barbecue recommendations don’t stop there. You can get a great meal of smoked meats at any one of these Fort Worth–area joints.In the City of Fort WorthAngelo’s BBQThis Fort Worth staple goes back to 1958. The brisket and ribs are plenty…