Point & Flat BBQ

Description

Point & Flat BBQ is a one-man barbecue operation built around brisket; the name refers to the point and the flat, the two muscles that make up a whole packer brisket. Kansas City magazine’s January 2023 profile describes a stick-burning pit run on hickory and oak, with Van Horn drawing on Texas technique and on local pitmasters Tyler Harp and Justin Easterwood — salt-and-pepper rubs, overnight smokes, and rendered trimmings used as tallow to baste briskets in the wrap.¹ In his own account to VoyageKC, the brisket is “salt, pepper, and garlic rubbed. Then, it was smoked to a certain temperature and finished in a bath of beef tallow in a foil wrap.”²

The business has no storefront. It works as a residency-style pop-up inside brewery taprooms, with the menu changing week to week around the brisket — ribs, pastrami and sausages rotating through, plus a weekly fusion item such as banh mi sandwiches or street tacos, and sides including brisket beans and street corn.² KCUR’s December 2025 roundup of newer Kansas City barbecue described Point & Flat as “a one-man pop-up operation with juicy burnt ends, briskets, and ribs,” found at Discourse Brewery, Friction Beer and Limitless Brewing.³

Point & Flat has also been booked into the Lenexa Public Market’s Rotating Table — the city-run program that hands The Kitchen space on the market’s mezzanine to a different pop-up on the last weekend of each month from March through October. The market’s own event listings scheduled Point & Flat BBQ for 2026-07-10/11 and for 2026-08-21/23.⁴ The Rotating Table is a market program rather than a tenancy, so this does not make Point & Flat a Lenexa Public Market merchant.

Ownership and history

Quentin Van Horn owns and runs the pit.¹² He spent 18 years in men’s clothing retail before being furloughed during the pandemic; offered his job back on worse terms, he left for car sales, where he bought a smoker and began cooking barbecue — including, by his own telling, an undercooked first Easter brisket.¹² He began cooking at a car dealership alongside his brother, then partnered with Marco Lopez to take the operation into breweries in 2022, opening at River Bluff Brewing in Kansas City’s River Market; the public debut was a First Friday in August.¹² Once the pop-ups became consistent he went full time.²

Van Horn characterized the brewery arrangement plainly in Kansas City magazine: “They don’t charge me anything, I don’t charge anything. I come and bring the fire.”¹

“ — Marco Lopez’s current role, if any, is not established beyond the 2022 launch; no business registration, brick-and-mortar plan, or Van Horn residency/birthplace detail was located. Recorded as an owner watchlist item.

Independent, not a house brand. Point & Flat is Van Horn’s own operation appearing as a guest at venues owned by others — breweries, and the City of Lenexa’s market program.¹⁴

Links

• Instagram (first-party): https://www.instagram.com/pointandflat_bbq/
• Facebook (first-party): https://www.facebook.com/p/Point-and-Flat-BBQ-100088082529802/
• Lenexa Public Market Rotating Table program: https://www.lenexapublicmarket.com/Food-Drink/Rotating-Table

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Sources: Kansas City magazine profile and VoyageKC founder interview (press, not first-party menu)¹² · menu_status: unverified · Confidence: Moderate for the cooking method and recurring items; the menu changes weekly by design and no published list exists.

Point & Flat runs a rotating weekly menu rather than a fixed one. Items documented in press coverage and the owner’s own interview:

• Brisket — salt, pepper and garlic rub; smoked overnight over hickory and oak; finished in a beef-tallow bath in the foil wrap¹²
• Burnt ends³
• Ribs²³
• Pastrami — rotating²
• Sausage — rotating²
• Weekly fusion item — e.g. banh mi sandwiches, street tacos; brisket tacos were served on a Friday noted in the 2023 profile¹²
• Sides — brisket beans, street corn²

Pricing

Confirmed absence of a recoverable first-party price list (checked 2026-08-13). Checked: the three candidate domains pointandflatbbq.com, www.pointandflatbbq.com and pointflatbbq.com, none of which resolve; the business’s Instagram profile page, which exposes no menu or price content to logged-out fetching; its Facebook page, which redirected (HTTP 302) rather than serving content; and the Lenexa Public Market’s Rotating Table listings, which announce dates only.⁵⁴ No online-ordering storefront was located. Aggregator listings (Yelp, Yahoo Local, Roadtrippers and similar) were not used for prices. A third-party corporate-campus food-truck listing page hosted by Shamrock Trading Corporation surfaced in search; it is not a first-party surface and was not used. No prices are stated on this page.

Sources

Disputes

None at this time. Venue schedules differ between the 2024 interview and the 2025 KCUR listing; treated as ordinary change over time, not a dispute, and both are dated in the source notes.

Footnotes

1. Kansas City magazine — “A stick-burning pop-up BBQ pit sets up at Limitless Brewing in Lenexa,” published 2023-01-22 — asserts: owner Quentin Van Horn; the stick-burning pit fired with hickory and oak; Texas-style technique drawn from pitmasters Tyler Harp and Justin Easterwood, salt-and-pepper rubs and overnight smoking; use of rendered trimmings as tallow when wrapping brisket; his 18 years in men’s retail, pandemic furlough, move to car sales and purchase of a smoker; the undercooked first Easter brisket; brisket tacos served on a recent Friday; the pop-up’s operation at Limitless Brewing in Lenexa; and the quotation “They don’t charge me anything, I don’t charge anything. I come and bring the fire.” (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. VoyageKC — “Meet Quentin Van Horn of Point & Flat BBQ,” published 2024-05-13 (founder interview) — asserts: Van Horn’s move from an 18-year clothing-retail career to barbecue after the pandemic; cooking at a car dealership with his brother; the 2022 partnership with Marco Lopez launching brewery pop-ups, beginning at River Bluff Brewing in Kansas City’s River Market; the decision to go full time once pop-ups became consistent; the weekly brewery rotation model; the brisket method quotation (“salt, pepper, and garlic rubbed. Then, it was smoked to a certain temperature and finished in a bath of beef tallow in a foil wrap”); rotating ribs, pastrami and sausages; fusion items including banh mi sandwiches and street tacos; sides of brisket beans and street corn; and the handles Instagram @pointandflat_bbq and Facebook “Point and Flat BBQ.” The brewery days listed in this 2024 interview (Servaes Brewing Tuesdays, Discourse Brewing Wednesdays and Fridays, Friction Beer Saturdays) are cited as of that date only and are superseded by the 2025 KCUR list. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

3. KCUR — “5 new-ish Kansas City BBQ restaurants to try,” published 2025-12-20 — asserts: as of 2025-12-20 Point and Flat BBQ was “a one-man pop-up operation with juicy burnt ends, briskets, and ribs” and “can be found at Discourse Brewery, Friction Beer, and Limitless Brewing”; the article does not name the owner. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Lenexa Public Market — “Rotating Table” program page and pop-up event listings (City of Lenexa first-party), archived capture 2026-07-08 (live URL: lenexapublicmarket.com) — asserts: the Rotating Table is the market’s own program in which a different pop-up takes The Kitchen space on the mezzanine level on the last weekend of each month, March–October; and that Point & Flat BBQ was scheduled as the pop-up restaurant on 2026-07-10/11 and on 2026-08-21/23 at the Lenexa Public Market, 8750 Penrose Ln., Lenexa, KS 66219. The live URL returns HTTP 403 to direct fetching (site-wide bot block), so the archived capture is cited. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. Point & Flat BBQ — Instagram, @pointandflat_bbq — asserts: the business’s own Instagram handle and that the account was live on 2026-08-13 with 401 posts and roughly 3,014 followers. The logged-out page exposes no bio, address, phone or menu content. Separately checked on 2026-08-13: pointandflatbbq.com, www.pointandflatbbq.com and pointflatbbq.com all failed to resolve (curl exit 6, no DNS), establishing that no standalone domain is in use. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩