Nothing much happens on the barbecue front in Del Rio. My full-time job is to travel all over the state looking for the next great barbecue joint. Until recently, I hadn’t been to Del Rio since I started this job twelve years ago because there was no reason to go. This year is different. After Hot Pit B-B-Q closed for good after operating for more than fifty years, a trio of Del Rio natives held the grand opening of their new restaurant, Humo Prime Barbecue.Hervey Huerta, Elias Mtanous, and Michael Willard left the city shortly after graduating from high school. They moved to San Antonio, where Huerta had his first barbecue experience (having never visited Hot Pit back home). It was a spot next to…
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