Popular Silver Spring eatery Money Muscle opened at Le Fantome food hall in Riverdale Park this week, continuing the barbecue boom on the Route 1 corridor.
After starting as a food truck during the coronavirus pandemic, Money Muscle moved to its first brick-and-mortar location at the food hall on Monday, part of the area’s entrepreneurial pipeline for new restaurants.
The eatery is run by Ed Reavis and Jennifer Meltzer, owners of downtown Silver Spring seafood place All Set Restaurant & Bar.
It serves a wide range of barbecue, including Carolina pulled pork, Texas brisket and Kansas City style, served along with trendy ingredients like quinoa and challah.
Money Muscle joins 2Fifty Texas BBQ in Riverdale Park and Federalist Pig, which runs a food truck and plans to open a sit-down restaurant in Hyattsville.
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Is it possible to get an update on Federalist Pig?
Last June, they said they were shutting down the food truck for construction. Then they re-opened the food truck, and shut it down again in the fall, again under the pretense of making room for construction, and the site has been completely dormant since then.
Is it permitting or some other issue stopping things from moving forward?
Really looking forward to seeing this corner of Jefferson and Rt1 come to life a bit. It’s such an eyesore…
Would love to see The Wire get the scoop on this.