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The sign for M’Jays House of Smoke is so small you can’t see it from the street. Owner Marcus Jerod Campbell got it from a festival where he served his barbecue and hung it above the door of TJ’s Catfish & Wings in Arlington, owned by Travis “TJ” Johnson, an uncle of his wife, Koyia.Johnson has run his restaurant for twenty years, and he let Campbell sell smoked turkey legs and ribs inside a couple days a week starting in 2019. Two years later, Campbell went into barbecue full-time. TJ’s took over a closed GameStop next door and doubled its dining room, and now Johnson and Campbell are business partners. A menu for TJ’s and another for M’Jays sit side by side at the ordering…

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