Joe T. Garcia’s is 90 on July 4, a remarkable anniversary for one of America’s oldest, largest and busiest restaurants.
Opened in 1935 as a barbecue market in a tumbledown former Lebanese grocery near the Fort Worth Stockyards, Joe T.’s now serves up to 2,000 diners at once across seven city blocks of dining and parking.
It has won national dining awards, including one of the very first James Beard Foundation prizes honoring “America’s Classics.”…