Pete’s Firehouse BBQ is a small, family owned and operated BBQ Competition Team, and Catering company based in Temecula, California.  What started as a hobby and passion, has quickly turned into a second career.  Pete works full time for the Riverside County Fire Department, thus the name “Pete’s Firehouse BBQ!”

Pete, our pitmaster, has been BBQ’ing since he was tall enough to reach the grill.  About 7 years ago we discovered what real BBQ was, cooking meat low and slow over real wood. We bought our first smoker, and the rest is history.

Six years ago we developed our first BBQ spice rub for our own use.  Our Original Rub we developed for pork and chicken. For Christmas one year, we gave people mason jars of our rub. Well shortly after that, folks were asking for more, and so it began.

We have since developed two BBQ Spice Rubs, our Pete’s Firehouse BBQ ORIGINAL Rub and our Santa Maria Style Rub.  In the past 18 months we finally bottled our own Pete's Firehouse BBQ Sauce!

Three years ago we entered our first BBQ Competition and have been hooked ever since.  We have done very well in competitions, especially being a new team to the circuit. 

In October, 2010 we won the GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP at the annual Flamingo BBQ Contest in Las Vegas Nevada, and just recently in April, 2011, we won the RESERVE GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP at the Stagecoach Music Festival California BBQ Championship......BREAKING NEWS:  We just won the GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP again at the 2011 Flamingo BBQ Contest in Las Vegas!  Back to back wins, way to go TEAM!