JB’s in Rexburg closed in June. Now this restaurant is moving in.

REXBURG – A Texas-style barbecue edifice will return complete nan building wherever JB’s edifice stood for half a period successful Rexburg.

JB’s Restaurant, formerly located astatine 150 W Main Street, closed its doors connected June 24 aft 51 years of operation. Now, Sparks Barbecue will return its place.

Sparks Barbecue began operating successful January arsenic a shade room successful Pizza Pie Cafe, meaning nan nutrient was prepared successful nan room for transportation aliases pick-up. But nan extremity has ever been for nan edifice to person its ain location.

“We created that abstraction successful nan backmost of Pizza Pie to beryllium capable to create these caller concepts that we want to do and to beryllium capable to get our systems and recipes down,” says Chris Sparks, 1 of nan owners of Sparks Barbecue. “It’s a bully spot wherever we tin create and beryllium capable to motorboat it into a building.”

Sparks is partners pinch Jacob Muller and Matt Smith, who besides owns Red Rabbit Grill and Pizza Pie Cafe.

The group traveled to Texas to investigation and trade precocious value recipes.

“[The nutrient is] going to beryllium smoked for 12 to 14 hours to make judge we’re going to person bully value meat,” Sparks said.

The Texas-style barbecue paper includes 5 different meats, including brisket, tri-tip, ribs, pulled pork and turkey. Sides see coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, elotes and loaded smoked baked potato. And a caller addition? Sandwiches – by celebrated demand.

“We sewage a batch of customer feedback, which was valuable,” Muller said. “Just being capable to cognize group wanted sandwiches. People would telephone and they would beryllium upset, ‘Oh you guys don’t do sandwiches, I’ll spell elsewhere.’ We evidently want to return attraction of those people’s wants and needs truthful we took that feedback. We’re implementing it into what we’re doing now,” Muller said.

Sparks Barbecue is planned to unfastened sometime adjacent month. It will beryllium unfastened Monday done Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.