Last month, the Purveyors Of Rolling Cuisine, or PORC, became the latest food truck to transform into a brick-and-mortar establishment when its owners announced their plans to open a restaurant in Columbia Heights.
And today, the forthcoming haunt has a name—the Kangaroo Boxing Club, which will open later this year at 3412 11th Street NW, next door to Meridian Pint. The PORC truck’s owners, Josh Saltzman and Trent Allen, are being joined in this new venture by Chris Powers, a college buddy of Saltzman and Allen’s from their days at the University of Michigan, and Peyton Sherwood, a co-owner of the U Street NW tavern Solly’s. (And if the last name sounds familiar, yes, he’s also the son of NBC4’s Tom Sherwood.)
Given this writer’s experience with PORC’s savory and saucy buffet during Meat Week earlier this year, there’s little to doubt about what Kangaroo Boxing Club will offer. But why such an oddball name?
In a press release, they explain it was inspired by those weird conversations soused barflies sometimes have at the end of the night:
The name, Kangaroo Boxing Club, comes from long-running, drink-infused, late-night bar discussions on the fact that, without technology, man is physically unable to compete with the majority of the animal kingdom. How would you win a match with a kangaroo?
Give us a plate of barbecue and a few rounds of beer, and we’ll figure it out.