Hot Dog! Popular DMV Food Truck and Pop-up Preparing First Brick-and-Mortar

Acclaimed concept Catalyst Hot Dogs is crowd-funding its first restaurant.

Kelly Mintzer
Written By Kelly Mintzer
News Writer
Photo: @Catalyst Hot Dogs on Facebook

One of the DMV’s hottest food trucks is preparing to make the leap to brick-and-mortar and is inviting fans to get in on the restaurant’s ground floor. Catalyst Hot Dogs has launched a crowd funding campaign to help finance its first permanent home, allowing customers to invest in a delicious opportunity, reports Source of the Spring.

 

Catalyst, whose beloved cuisine is “inspired by the iconic culinary traditions of New Jersey’s greatest hot dog joints”, served its first frankfurter in 2020. For fans of the concept, a brick-and-mortar restaurant can’t come soon enough-and with it new possibilities. The eatery’s crowd-funding campaign, launched on Honey Comb Credit explains some of the menu expansions planned as including “ tavern burgers, mozzarella sticks, wings and classic sandwiches with breaded chicken cutlets, slow roasted pork and Italian cold cuts.”

 

The much-lauded hot dog concept has not yet selected a space for its new permanent location. Capital raised through the Honey Comb campaign will go towards securing a lease, equipment, and furnishings. 

 

Contributors can rest assured that they are investing in an incredibly quality product with a built in fanbase. Catalyst has garnered the attention of high-profile sources including the Washington Post and NPR. Catalyst manages to thread the needle between sophistication and comfort, using high-quality ingredients to craft the comfort food classic diners know and love-or, as the crowd funding thesis states: “The business offers a menu centered on premium, dry-aged Black Angus all-beef hot dogs made in Maryland by Roseda Farm, which are paired with a selection of house-made toppings prepared on-site.”

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Kelly Mintzer is a freelance writer in the greater Philadelphia area. She's been delighted to write about the Philly and DC restaurant scenes for What Now Media since 2023. Additionally, she writes about genre media for Morbidly Beautiful and co-hosts the Guilty Pleasures and No Notes podcasts. Kelly has been writing across mediums since graduating from Moravian College with a degree in English in 2008. She has covered everything from listicles to how-to articles, to movie reviews, to op-eds, to interviews about up-and-coming restaurants.
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