BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — All five restaurants owned by James Beard award-winning pitmaster Rodney Scott have now closed for the foreseeable future, including the original spot in Charleston, South Carolina.
Over the last few weeks, Rodney Scott’s Full Hog BBQ locations in Homewood, Trussville and Chelsea “temporarily” closed, without any formal announcement outside of signs on the door. Now, as of Sunday, the remaining three locations in Charleston, Atlanta and Nashville, where Scott teamed up with country singer Eric Church to open a location in Church’s bar, Chiefs, have now “temporarily” closed, according to management in Charleston.
Growing up in South Carolina, Scott started cooking early, working with his family’s business, Scott’s Variety Store and Bar-B-Q, as early as his teens. By 2011, he took over the business and, with Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q co-founder Nick Pihakis, hung out his own shingle, Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ, in 2017…