A food-and-beverage business succumbing to financial stress is a story all too common lately. Such is the case with one of the top barbecue entities in Texas, which announced this weekend that part of its brand was going away for good.
Emily and Nolan Belcher of B4 Barbeque, a Texas Monthly top 50 Texas BBQ joint, took to Facebook on Saturday to tell fans that they were closing their outpost in Rhome in order to “put our full focus” on their primary location in Mabank. They opened the Rhome space in spring 2026.
“For six months, we gave this location everything we had. Early mornings, late nights, money, energy, and a whole lot of hope. We wanted so badly to make it work,” wrote the Belchers on Saturday morning. But they continued that all the work in operating the trailer-and-benches location off U.S. Route 287 in Rhome, about 25 miles northwest of Fort Worth, hadn’t paid off…