There seems to be no more love for Horn Barbecue at the Chronicle, just a few years after the paper — and multiple national publications — crowned it one of the best restaurants in the Bay Area.
The Chronicle updated its list of the best barbecue spots around the Bay on Tuesday, making space for two locations of Fikscue (the original in Alameda and the new one at the Chase Center), and two locations of Pig in a Pickle (Corte Madera and Emeryville). But conspicuously absent from the list is Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn’s much celebrated restaurant that originated in West Oakland, but now has locations in downtown Oakland, Lafayette, and Elk Grove.
This snub comes a year after a Chronicle investigation into a series of wage-theft lawsuits at the restaurant, in which former employees were suing Horn over what they said was unfair compensation, and a couple of other pending suits against the restaurant, including one from its meat supplier in 2022…