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The follow-up restaurant to Bryan's Black Mountain Barbecue is stepping up to the plate.

The restaurant was known for its barbecue and Chicago-style dishes. Three other metro Phoenix locations remain open.

“After a lot of trial and error, I became a pretty good cook,” he said. “And I’d have people over and it was great. But the amount of leftover food was really bugging me.” He knew there were plenty of people who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from, said Jones, who grew up in south Phoenix and Surprise after moving here from Lincoln, Nebraska, when he was 9. When dinner guests canceled at the last minute a few years ago, Jones found himself with a table full of uneaten food. “I said, ‘I’m gonna take this smoked meat downtown and see how it goes.’”