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…

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