Jul 27, 2026 | 9:21 am
The small Hill Country town of Brownwood is going big for its 2026 Feels Like Home Festival, a barbecue and country music event scheduled for Saturday, October 3. A first wave of 10 participating pitmasters has been revealed, including a few familiar names from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The local restaurants represented will be The Original Roy Hutchins Barbecue in Trophy Club, Hurtado Barbecue of Fort Worth and Arlington, and Olmos BBQ of Fort Worth.
The first wave of pitmasters at the Feels Like Home Festival are:
- Bosque River Taphouse (Stephenville, TX)
- Brantley Creek Barbecue (Odessa, TX)
- Hill City Chop House (Tolar, TX)
- Hurtado Barbecue (Fort Worth and Arlington, TX)
- Olmos BBQ (Fort Worth, TX)
- Pody’s BBQ (Pecos, TX)
- Rossler’s Blue Cord Barbecue (Harker Heights, TX)
- Schoepf’s BBQ (Belton, TX)
- The Original Roy Hutchins Barbecue (Trophy Club, TX)
- Victorian’s Barbecue (Mart, TX)
Brownwood is located between Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Abilene, about a three-hour drive from Dallas. Texas Monthly recently detailed some unique ways to spend the weekend there, a place that’s “still obsessed with trains.”…