A Maryland Suburb’s Barbecue Boom Continues With the Arrival of Money Muscle

Montgomery County’s pandemic-born meals truck hit Cash Muscle BBQ simply expanded to neighboring Prince George’s County with a devoted location to lastly name its personal.

Cash Muscle BBQ debuted a dine-in stall on Monday, January 16 inside Le Fantome, bringing an array of smoked meats, sandwiches, sides, and standout sauces in regional kinds to the Station at Riverdale Park (4501 Woodberry Avenue). The mixed-used growth’s polished meals corridor, open since August, sits a brief drive from brisket standard-bearer 2Fifty Texas BBQ.

Pitmaster Ed Reavis and his spouse Jennifer Meltzer birthed Cash Muscle BBQ out of their downtown Silver Spring seafood stalwart All Set Restaurant & Bar in fall 2020. Imported meals truck favorites embody smoked wings, Carolina pulled pork, Texas brisket, and a vegan black bean quinoa burger topped with slaw, fried shallots, and Kansas Metropolis barbecue sauce.

New menu drops embody a Chapel Hill pulled beef sandwich on challah with horseradish mayo and crispy onions; jerk-rubbed barbecue salmon skewers; and mac and cheese loaded up with pulled pork, chopped brisket, or black bean and quinoa crumble. Dine-in, pick-up, supply, and catering choices can be found; hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday by Thursday and till 11 p.m. Friday by Saturday.

Reavis, who grew up consuming consolation meals in a small southeastern Virginia city, not too long ago purchased a 1,000-gallon, reverse-flow meat smoker to deal with its surge in enterprise. The group not too long ago took over Fryer’s Roadside in Silver Spring and added a couple of of Cash Muscle BBQ’s greatest sellers.

Cash Muscle BBQ joins choices for sushi, sizzling fried hen sandwiches, and Korean dishes on the 83-seat worldwide meals corridor, which features a full-service bar and rotating roster of ghost kitchens. The all-day lineup is curated by Hospitality HQ founding companion Akhtar Nawab, an award-winning chef and restaurateur behind Mexican hotspots Alta Calidad in New York and Otra Vez in New Orleans.