Maryland’s 2Fifty Texas BBQ has earned another national honor, this time being named one of the best barbecue restaurants in America by loveFOOD.

loveFOOD, a popular international food and travel website, recently released its ranking of the best barbecue restaurants in the U.S., placing 2Fifty Texas BBQ in Riverdale Park (Prince George’s County) at No. 17 in the country. The publication says its ranking is based on user reviews, awards and accolades, along with the opinions of its food and travel team, while acknowledging that “some level of subjectivity is unavoidable.”

In highlighting 2Fifty, loveFOOD points to the restaurant’s Texas-inspired barbecue and Central American influence. The publication specifically highlights its wagyu brisket, along with sides including mango salad, sweet potato mash, and sweet beans with brisket.

2Fifty was founded in 2020 by husband-and-wife team Fernando González and Debby Portillo, who are originally from El Salvador. The restaurant has since received recognition from a number of national and regional publications and organizations.

Earlier this year, 2Fifty also earned national recognition on Yelp’s list of the “Top 100 BBQ Restaurants in the U.S., According to Yelp Elites.”

2Fifty describes its cooking approach as “Central Texas style barbecue,” explaining that the style revolves around fire, wood, and simplicity. “For us, it means more like a culture that revolves around fire. It means using 100% wood and mainly salt and pepper to season our meats. The meats are commonly cooked at an offset propane tank-shaped pit,” the restaurant says.

The restaurant also incorporates sides and flavors inspired by its owners’ Salvadoran heritage, blending traditional Central Texas barbecue techniques with their own cultural influences.

2Fifty has built a devoted following for both the quality of its barbecue and its limited daily availability. According to the restaurant, its meats can take between six and 14 hours to cook using a low-and-slow smoking process, limiting how much can be served fresh each day.

“Even though our 100% wood smokers operate at full capacity, the smoking process is done low and slow (at a low temperature for a long period of time). It takes between 6 to 14 hours to finish the cooking process so we have a limited capacity to serve our menu fresh everyday,” the restaurant says.

The latest recognition adds to a growing list of accolades for 2Fifty. The Riverdale Park restaurant was named Casual Restaurant of the Year at the 2025 RAMMY Awards, and González was named Restaurateur of the Year at the 2026 RAMMY Awards.

2Fifty Texas BBQ operates locations at 4700 Riverdale Rd in Riverdale Park in Prince George’s County and 414 K St NW in Washington, DC.

Wayback Burgers is still planning to open its first Montgomery County location in Damascus, but the restaurant’s anticipated opening has been delayed.

The burger chain signed a lease last year for a 1,925-square-foot restaurant at 9811 Main Street, with plans at the time calling for a late 2025 opening. In a recent update provided to The MoCoShow, Wayback Burgers confirmed the Damascus location remains in the works but has encountered an issue with the property’s grease trap. “Still planning to open. Had some grease trap issues so we are trying to resolve that. Stay tuned,” Wayback Burgers told The MoCoShow.

The restaurant is owned by franchisee Shahzad Manzoor and is expected to feature dine-in seating and an open kitchen. Wayback’s menu includes burgers, hot dogs, fries, chicken sandwiches, milkshakes and salads.

The Damascus restaurant would mark Wayback Burgers’ first Montgomery County location. The chain previously planned a restaurant at The Shops of Potomac Valley on Darnestown Road in Gaithersburg, where signage was installed and initial construction began, but that location ultimately never opened.

Buffalo Wild Wings GO is now open at 3231 Spartan Rd in Olney. The scaled-down Buffalo Wild Wings concept focuses primarily on takeout and delivery.

The Olney location has taken over the space that was previously home to Three Points Cycles, which closed at the end of May 2024. Buffalo Wild Wings signed on for the Olney location in early 2025.

The Olney restaurant is the fourth Buffalo Wild Wings GO to open in Montgomery County. The Gaithersburg location, which opened in August 2025, was the first of the GO concepts to open in the county. Additional BWW GO locations have opened in the Crossroads at Kensington shopping center at 10619 Connecticut Ave and Burtonsville Village Center at 15500B Old Columbia Pike. A fifth location is planned for Bethesda.

Sabor Mixteco Taqueria, located in Wheaton in Montgomery County, has been named one of “The Best Cheap Eats Around the DC Area” by Washingtonian.

The recently published list highlights 60 restaurants where diners can get a satisfying meal for less than $25 per person, excluding drinks, tax and tip. More than 200 restaurants across the region were considered.

Washingtonian highlighted Sabor Mixteco’s tlayuda, a large Oaxacan tortilla topped with beans, cheese and other ingredients, as well as the chileajo and alambre. The restaurant’s menu also includes carne asada, enchiladas, chilaquiles, tortas, burritos and other Oaxacan specialties.

Sabor Mixteco opened in 2023 at 2462 Ennalls Avenue in Wheaton. The restaurant is operated by Juan Solano, a veteran of the longtime Adams Morgan restaurant Mixtec, along with Apolinar Cervantes and Marisol Gonzales. Mixtec operated in DC for approximately 40 years before closing in 2014.

Sabor Mixteco occupies the former Kantutas space.