The Pit Stop restaurant, a long-time BBQ smokehouse on Morton Street, was sold by the Debnam family last spring to a pair of brothers from Jamaica Plain, who won approvals this month to open a Dominican-style restaurant at the site.

Public records showed that the property sold for $310,000 in May to Stamatos Family Properties LLC, controlled by Christ and George Stamatos of Centre Street. The Pit Stop has been a staple for southern-style BBQ since 1985 when Lawrence Jeter opened for business at the corner of Evans Street with a large meat smoking operation and a parking lot. Jeter sold the business and the building to Darrell Debnam in 2007 and few things changed except moving the smoking operations outside. Inside, a 450-square-foot eatery was mostly a standing-room business with a few barstools by the window. The specialties were ribs, smoked chicken, and sides like collard greens.

The property has been tidied up and outfitted for a restaurant dubbed ‘La Cibaena Esaa Restaurant’ under manager Marileydis Cabrera that will be open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to midnight and will have limited seating, a steamer, and counter and preparation room in the back.