The homemade chili and half-smoke sausage purveyor recently announced its first retail distribution deal. Kamal Ali, owner of D.C.’s famed Ben’s Chili Bowl, leads a successful ...

The feat after that, he says, is how to draw them in. HalfSmoke operates the food court’s only full bar, where bartenders shake and stir the same specialty cocktails found at Half Smoke’s other ...