AUSTIN (KXAN) — After an almost four-year hiatus, Austin’s oldest pit barbecue restaurant is getting ready to open again.
In 2020, House Park Bar-B-Que burned down, destroying much of the interior of the restaurant, but the city’s oldest pit made it through, with only a little damage.
At the time of the fire, owner Matt Sullivan made a promise to his customers that he would rebuild around the pit and bring back his iconic spot.
“It survived (the pit),” Sullivan said in 2020. “It will need a little love. We will need to put new steel doors on it, but the pit did survive thank goodness.”
Sullivan even posted a sign outside the restaurant that read “We’ll be back.”
‘We plan on bouncing back,’ Owner of legendary House Park Bar-B-Que says after Tuesday fire
“My father bought it in 1981 right before the Memorial flood of ’81, so we have been through a couple tragedies before, if you will, here. So, we plan on bouncing back,” Matt Sullivan said back in 2020.
House Park Bar-B-Que opened originally in 1943.