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Real wood.Real smoke.Real barbeque.

Brisket, pulled pork, sausage and chicken, smoked every day over seasoned oak on Route 50 in Aldie. When it's gone, it's gone.

See the menu

Wednesday to Sunday11am to 7pm, or until we sell out

A tray of ribs and grilled chicken with green beans and mac and cheese on butcher paper
Briskets and pork shoulders on the racks of the smoker

Smoked today. Gone when it's gone.

Every meat comes off the smoker the day you eat it, and we never serve it a second day. So we sell out, sometimes early. Call ahead or order online to hold yours.

  • A 1,000-gallon smoker
  • A cord of oak a week
  • Sides made here

Call 703-542-8692

On the board

By the half pound and up, in a sandwich, or as a platter with two sides.

Sides, dessert and drinks
Sliced brisket with a dark bark
Brisket
A pile of pulled pork
Pulled pork
Smoked ribs on a tray
Ribs
Ken slicing a brisket at the block
Ken slicing brisket
Ken leaning out of the window of the Hammerdown food truck

From a Jeep to Route 50

  1. 2010

    Ken Soohoo, a first-generation American and Marine veteran, builds a smoker on a trailer and tows it behind his Jeep to local farm markets.

  2. 2014

    The lines outgrow the trailer. Ken rebuilds an old food truck and rolls it out in the Middleburg Christmas Parade.

  3. 2017

    Ken and the team gut an old tea house on the John Mosby Highway in Aldie and build the restaurant.

Ken and his brother Bing built the smoker too: 1,000 gallons, four bays, and a firebox that goes through a cord of seasoned oak every week.

Come early, stay late.

Inside it's barn wood from local farms, work by local artisans, and iron foundry plates made more than a hundred years ago for the Hudson Coal Company of Scranton. At the bar, beer, wine and spirits from local makers: ask what's on today.

The dining room: wood tables, metal chairs and barn-wood wallsThe bar with beer taps and two beers pouredAn old iron gear wheel on the wall

Feeding a crowd?

Graduation parties, school banquets, church events, office lunches, block parties, holidays, or just a big family: catering is one of our gigs.

Plan on half a pound of meat for each adult.

Plan your cateringCall 703-798-4413
Catering trays of bacon-wrapped bites and sweet potatoes
The front of Hammerdown Barbeque: slate siding, the sign and an old Coca-Cola machine by the door

Find us on Route 50

41153 John Mosby Hwy
Aldie, VA 20105

  • Wednesday to Sunday11am to 7pm
  • Monday and TuesdayClosed

Meats sell out, sometimes early. Call ahead to hold yours.

Directions703-542-8692