Pine Island Experience

Pine Island Experience


S1E30, John Petrus, Owner, That BBQ Place in Matlacha

November 24, 2023

This episode features John Petrus, owner of That BBQ Place in Matlacha.  John creates Central Texas-style barbecue using salt and pepper smoked slow over oak wood.   After hurricane Ian,  the restaurant needed to be rebuilt however, his smoker survived.  John felt he had a responsibility to feed people stating,  “People needed to be taken care of and I had the equipment to feed people”.  John fed people for almost one hundred days under a tent in front of his restaurant.


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