Owner and chef Matt Horn, left, surveys damage at Horn Barbecue in Oakland after a devastating fire in late November of 2023, right before Thanksgiving. The Oakland Fire Department was investigating the blaze which gutted the restaurant. Matt Horn has been a hard man to reach this month, at least for his former business partner’s attorneys, but Alameda County officials are expected to find a way to provide him $100,000 in federal COVID-19 relief funding.and was red-tagged by inspectors.
“My line of work because people don’t want to make payments that they owe somebody,” Hinds said in an interview this week. “Mr. Horn has been particularly nefarious in that every time we think we’ve got a good address for him, we haven’t been able to reach him.” Oakland firefighters investigate the aftermath of the fire at Horn Barbecue in Oakland a day after the blaze gutted the restaurant in late November of 2023.
Carson, whose district includes West Oakland and parts of North Oakland, among other East Bay cities, didn’t respond to multiple interview requests. An acclaimed pitmaster with his own book of recipes, Horn launched the eponymous West Oakland restaurant in October 2020. Eighteen months earlier, he had allegedly formed a business partnership with Kim, who later claimed to have invested $3,000 and long hours into the business.