Cue Point’s street food is London’s first drive-through barbecue. Now try their brilliant recipes at home
Barbecue business Cue Point is only in its fifth year and already it has shifted from pub kitchen to catering events with a trailer and sending out meal kits around the UK – featuring a menu that Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner “rampaged through”. More recently, it opened London’s first drive-through barbecue at Chiswick’s Pavilion, since joined by a dine-in service. Drawing on co-founder Mursal Saiq’s Afghan and head chef Joshua Moroney’s Guyanese-British heritage, there are briskets, smoked for 14 hours and then sliced and folded into brioche buns, or piled on platters with chicken wings, slaw, fries and sweetcorn. There are fried chicken and veggie buns, and smoked racks of ribs – beef or lamb – with herby Afghan-inspired condiments .
The couple met 10 years ago, when they both worked at a street-food market in east London. Saiq’s background was as a manager in small businesses, Moroney was the head chef at barbecue outfit Smokestak when it was a food trailer. They loved the bustle of the street-food scene, but became disillusioned as growing popularity meant growing prices, a cover charge to enter some venues, and increasing barriers to who could enjoy the food. Saiq remembers trying to get her family and friends to come along, then realising how little, as Muslims or vegetarians, they could actually eat.
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