4501 Woodberry St. — Approximate Riverdale Park Expansion Location
A halal smash burger chain that built its name in Baltimore and Riverdale Park has soft-opened its first Washington, D.C. location, setting up shop in a Georgetown storefront that has seen no shortage of turnover. Munchin Burger is now serving late-night smash burgers, chicken wings, and loaded fries at 3206 O Street NW, just off Wisconsin Avenue.
Halal food is a fit for a region with a measurable Muslim population, though the available estimate is imprecise: the Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study puts the share of adults in the Washington metro area who identify as Muslim at 3%. Pew gives the metro estimate a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points, so it is a broad indicator rather than a precise head count. The figure offers regional context for a menu built around halal meat…