Pasco residents will have to head across the Columbia River to get their fix for Porter’s Real Barbecue later this month. 

Owner Porter Kinney announced March 3 via the restaurant’s social media “that with a great amount of care and deliberation” the decision was made to close the Pasco location at 7425 Sandifur Parkway. The store’s last day of service will be March 16. 

The Pasco location has been open for the past five years. Porter’s has recently renewed the leases for its Kennewick, Richland and Spokane locations. 

Porter’s began in a food truck in 2013 after Kinney, a Tri-City native, returned to the region and sought to recreate the type of barbecue he encountered living in the South. His barbecue took off and Kinney moved the business into a brick-and-mortar storefront on the Parkway in Richland in 2014 before expanding to three other locations and moving its Richland store to 1092 George Washington Way.