A new food truck is ready to serve Fort Worth some soul food and unusual Philly and Chicago-style eats: Called Adams Boy Mobile Food Catering, it will be located at 6300 McCart Ave., in front of a tire shop, where they're planning a grand opening on October 1.

Adams Boy is owned by Billy Adams Jr., a chef and restaurateur from Freeport, Illinois who moved to Fort Worth four months ago.

"My wife and I decided we needed a change," Adams says. "We wanted to go somewhere that was bigger, where we could really explode like we want to." (The population of Freeport is 23,413.)

Adams Boy is the fulfillment of his dream of operating his own food truck. Looking for a high traffic area, he settled on the tire shop, where he'd had work done before on his car. The shop agreed to let him park his truck there, and they set up a rent agreement.

They'll be open daily, unless they have a booked festival or catering event. Currently, the truck pops up as a vendor at events until the grand opening arrives.

The menu features chicken wings, pork chops, and fried catfish plus Southern sides, such as collard greens, candied yams, potato salad, and mac & cheese.

“We'll be doing a little barbecue, just a little bit of everything; we try to give customers a good product and still be able to afford it,” Adams says.

There are $15 lunch combos with fries, Texas toast, and a drink and $18 dinners featuring cornbread and two eight-ounce sides.

“I know down here in Texas, a lot of people like their meats dry, so we’ve actually got the sauce,” Adams says. “Any of your chicken or your pork chops, that stuff, you could dip it in any one of those five sauces (BBQ, garlic parm, hot honey, Chicago style mild, and buffalo)."

There are a few unique options under the lunch combo options, including a crazy deep-fried take on the Philly cheesesteak with chopped sirloin beef, bell peppers, onions, American, provolone, and Swiss cheese, wrapped in a 12-inch flour tortilla and deep fried. He also does a deep-fried version of an Italian beef beef sandwich, with roast beef, American cheese, white queso, and hot or mild giardiniera vegetable mix — also wrapped in a tortilla and deep-fried.

He's also forged a partnership of sorts with R&R Soul Food, a restaurant specializing in American dishes, soul food, and barbecue that opened at 3329 Altamesa Blvd. in 2023.

Adams partnered with R&R Soul Food owner Renelle Davis to add some of his dishes to the restaurant's menu, including rib tips — slow-cooked pork spare ribs in BBQ sauce.

Adams learned to cook as a child at age nine, observing his grandmother in the kitchen and cooking for family. It was something he believed brought his brothers and sisters closer.

"I learned a lot just from experience and trial and error," Adams says. "I felt like when I cooked, we went out to parks and did everything that kept my brothers and sisters together. I would do that all the time, and didn't even really know that was my passion and that's what God was getting me prepared for later on in life."