Tyson Ho

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Expertise: Barbecue

Proprietor and pitmaster of the Arrogant Swine, a whole hog barbecue restaurant in Brooklyn, New York.
Trained under famed pitmaster Ed Mitchell.
First to open a barbecue restaurant in New York focused exclusively on whole hog cookery.

Experience

Tyson Ho was proprietor and pitmaster of Arrogant Swine in Brooklyn, an American beer hall specializing in eastern Carolina-style whole hog barbecue. Before opening Arrogant Swine in 2014, Tyson trained with North Carolina pitmaster Ed Mitchell. Tyson has a background in fine dining and worked in finance before leaving it all behind to run his barbecue restaurant.

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