Nash & Smash, a halal eatery serving Nashville hot chicken sandwiches and smash burgers, will be opening its first Montgomery County location in Silver Spring in early to mid-September, according to owner Zayan Abbasi.
“Everything is almost done,” Abbasi told MoCo360 Monday, noting the store in the Woodmoor Shopping Center at 10121 Colesville Road has received its final permits and inspection approvals from the county.
Signage and window decals for the shop have been posted at the restaurant since around late June, according to the MoCo Show, which first reported the restaurant opening in December.
The new shop will be in the former home of a Subway sandwich shop and will sit in between Bento, a Japanese restaurant, and the Woodmoor Cleaners.
Nash & Smash opened its first shop in Manassas, Virginia, in February and the business has been doing well in that community, according to Abbasi.
“People love our sandwiches,” he said.
Aside from hot chicken sandwiches and smash burgers, the menu includes fried chicken tenders and wings, mac and cheese, waffle fries and mocktails. According to the Nash & Smash website, the eatery aims to use high-quality and local ingredients in its products.
Abbasi said the Nash & Smash concept had been in the works for about three years before he opened the Manassas shop. Since opening the first shop, he opened two locations in Maryland in Ellicott City and Laurel, and also in Ashburn and Herndon in Virginia.
Abassi said he chose to open a location in the Woodmoor shopping center because he has always liked the busyness of the center at the intersection of Colesville Road and University Boulevard. It also helped that the landlord of the shopping center where the Manassas shop is located also owns the Woodmoor center, he said.
When Nash & Smash opens, Abassi said he looks forward to being in an area with plenty of eateries and transit options near Montgomery Blair High School, which is about a block away on an opposite corner of the intersection.
