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DC Meat Week to Kick Off in Rockville
New Urban Bar-B-Que location will host the first of eight nights of barbecue.
A new Rockville location of a local chain of barbecue joints will kick off the third annual DC Meat Week on Sunday.
Urban Bar-B-Que, which recently opened in at Rock Creek Village Shopping Center in Rockville, will host opening night of the week long “celebration of smoky, low-and-slow cooking.”
This year’s celebration of D.C. area establishments has been expanded to eight days and features four newer restaurants, three old favorites and a barbecue food truck.
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6:30 p.m. Sunday—Urban Bar-B-Que, 5566 Norbeck Road, Rockville, MD 20853. (For more about Urban Bar-Que, check out the listing for .)
6:30 p.m. Monday—Hill Country Barbecue Market, 410 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004.
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7 p.m. Tuesday—, 2312 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria (Del Ray), VA 22301.
7 p.m. Wednesday—PORC (Purveyors of Rolling Cuisine)—special dinner hosted at Torrie’s at Wilson’s, 700 V Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001.
7 p.m. Thursday—Smoke & Barrel, 2471 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009.
7 p.m. Friday—Memphis Barbeque, 320 23rd Street South, Arlington (Crystal City), VA 22202.
1 p.m. Saturday—Mr. P’s Ribs & Fish, 514 Rhode Island Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002 (in the Rhode Island Avenue Center parking lot).
Noon, Feb. 5—Rocklands Barbeque and Grilling, 2418 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20017 (in Glover Park).
Meat Week started in 2005 in Tallahassee, Fla., and has spread to 24 chapters around the world.
Meat Week in the D.C. metropolitan area began with a meet up in Rockville, .
Barbecue lovers who attend at least four events during the week are eligible to vote for “best of’s,” including the best sauce, service, sides, atmosphere and all-around.
For more on Meat Week’s traditions, visit the Newcomer’s Guide.
Bober takes a quick look at the new Rockville Urban Bar-B-Que location on Capital Spice Blog (“this Urban puts the ‘bar’ in ‘barbecue,’” Bober writes) and interviews D.C. Meat Week “Captain” Jenelle Dennis—a Kansas City Barbecue Society Certified Barbecue Judge, and “First Mate” David Gootzit.
For more information, follow Dennis’s Meat Week-related tweets here and visit the DC Meat Week page on Facebook here.
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