Big Hoss Bar-B-Q Steakhouse Memphis Style The story of "Big Hoss" Hoss Orwat: Big Hoss can be found walking the floor of his restaurant traveled the country researching barbecue before opening Big Hoss in December 2006. He went everywhere, from California to the Carolinas and back again. And when he was done traveling, he took everything he'd learned, threw it out the window, and did things his own way. Big Hoss's sauce is a combination of everything that's good about deep Southern, Texan, Eastern seaboard, and K.C.