Mutiny BBQ Company in Asbury Park, known for its smoked brisket, pulled pork, ribs and wings, is opening a second restaurant in the city.
Owners Tom and Martha Dunphy are expanding to the boardwalk with Mutiny Beach inside Convention Hall. The restaurant replaces Seahorse Bar & Grill at 1300 Ocean Ave N., which is closing at the end of March.
“When there’s an opportunity to bring a local established business into a really popular, really busy area, that’s fantastic,” said Tom Dunphy. They plan to open the new lunch and dinner restaurant in May.
Mutiny Beach will offer a bar and grill-style take on barbecue, he said.
“Barbecue will be the centerpiece, the main focus, but we’ll take some of the barbecue concepts and expand on them to do some creative dishes, some small plates; creative fare that will work for people having a day on the beach,” he said.
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Tom Dunphy’s Mutiny BBQ Company opens Friday in Asbury Park.
The menu is under development, but diners can expect dishes like French onion brisket flatbread, pulled pork-stuffed jalapeño poppers, smoked shishito peppers with hot honey, a smoked turkey Cobb salad, and a Nashville hot chicken sausage sandwich, along with Mutiny BBQ Company’s pulled pork and brisket sandwiches and barbecue platters.
Mutiny BBQ Company, 808 5th Ave., will remain open.
“We really wanted there to be two unique experiences, but with major concepts and themes that connect the places,” Dunphy said.
Following a soft opening in early May, the couple plan to have Mutiny Beach up and running with full service available daily around Memorial Day weekend. The restaurant will operate under a management agreement with Madison Marquette, which has overseen redevelopment of the non-residential portion of the Asbury Park boardwalk since 2007.
The “Beast from the East” prepared by Tom Dunphy, chef and owner of Mutiny BBQ Company in Asbury Park, as seen on Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” The sandwich is made with pulled pork, brisket and Texas-style sausage.
The Dunphys launched their small-batch smokehouse concept out of the Asbury Park Food Collective, a commercial kitchen on Sewall Avenue, in 2020. Their first restaurant opened in 2021, serving oak-smoked meats, sandwiches and sides like macaroni and cheese, beans, collard greens and cornbread casserole.
Last year, Mutiny BBQ Company caught the eye of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” and host Guy Fieri visited for an episode that aired in in September.
Sarah Griesemer joined the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey in 2003 and has been writing all things food since 2014. Send restaurant tips to [email protected], follow on Instagram at Jersey Shore Eats and subscribe to her weekly newsletter.
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Mutiny BBQ opening new restaurant, Mutiny Beach, in Asbury Park
