From a pandemic pop-up to a place where you can pop in for some righteous local barbecue and cheap cocktails, Night Goat Barbecue, from the owners of Fox & Pearl, Vaughn Good and Kristine Hull, will be opening this fall in its very own space directly below Fox & Pearl, their popular farm-to-fork restaurant on Kansas City’s Westside. Currently Night Goat is operating as a Thursday night pop-up in the downstairs lounge of Fox & Pearl with a small food menu and fun divey cocktails. The future home for the barbecue place is now under construction in the space that formerly operated as El Pozo, an underground bar. Night Goat’s entrance will be on the north side of the building. While the existing bones of the building aren’t changing, the couple is adding some new fixtures. Available for dine-in or carry-out, with catering and private events also available, Night Goat Barbecue won’t serve the traditional meat-and-three platters, but instead will lean into dive-bar snacks, such as in-house-crafted hot dogs, barbecue sandwiches, and tacos. The plan is to be open 5 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and possibly Sunday too, with food until midnight.