The last time I saw Mike Hinze, he was standing amid the charred rubble of his family's restaurant in Wharton. Hinze's Bar-B-Q, a 40-year-old business that had become a community gathering place ...

Out of the corner of her eye, Lydia Hinze Kubicek watched a cook dash out the back of the restaurant into the smoke room. She'd seen this before - it was probably just a grease fire in one of the ...

They range from household names to names barely known outside their own households, and for the first four years after being named to the Chronicle's 2005 All-Greater Houston baseball team, Kody ...

WHARTON, Texas -- For almost 50 years, Hinze's BBQ has been an institution in Wharton, Texas, serving up 100-percent pecan-smoked meats alongside its famous tangy sauce. W.C. Hinze first opened ...

WHARTON, Texas -- For almost 50 years, Hinze's BBQ has been an institution in Wharton, Texas, serving up 100-percent pecan-smoked meats alongside its famous tangy sauce. W.C. Hinze first opened ...