Barbecue company and restaurant to be featured Friday night on ABC reality show.
Pork Barrel BBQ is hosting a viewing party Friday night for an episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” that will feature company co-founders Heath Hall and Brett Thompson. Friends and neighbors are invited to join the festivities at the Mt. Vernon Avenue restaurant from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday’s episode will include an update on the nationwide success of Pork Barrel BBQ sauces and dry rubs and a segment on the opening of the restaurant. The hour-long program begins at 8 p.m. and will be shown on all the televisions in the restaurant with sound. “Anybody is welcome to come by and watch,” said Bill Blackburn, who opened the Pork Barrel restaurant in November with Hall, Thompson and “Mango” Mike Anderson. “It’s going to be pretty fun like it always is at…
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Restaurant sells out of barbecue in less than four hours.
Fifteen minutes before the much-awaited opening of the Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant on Tuesday, a line formed outside the entrance on Mt. Vernon Avenue. When the doors opened at 5 p.m., the line moved to the counter, where patrons ordered their food cafeteria style before finding their seats. The line remained for several of hours until about 8:30 p.m. when all the meat prepared for the evening had been ordered and promptly devoured. “As expected, the Del Ray Community came out in force as they have from Day 1. We’re very appreciative of that,” said co-owner “Mango” Mike Anderson. With familiar neighborhood faces such as Stu Ellis behind the bar and chef Will Artley in the kitchen, the opening night of Pork Barrel BBQ was a resounding …
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Drew Hansen
6:53 pm on Thursday, December 1, 2011
Thanks for the link to the menu, Richard! more ›