Bareburger Launches New BBQ Concepts in Astoria

ASTORIA, N.Y., September 5, 2017 (Newswire.com) - When searching for the perfect location for his new concept Salt & Bone Smokehouse, Bareburger CEO & Founder Euripides Pelekanos kept going back to one place - home. Eight years ago, the quintessential New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens embraced the forward-thinking-all-sustainable Bareburger. So when the boy-from-Queens needed a location for his newest labor of love, the decision was obvious.

Just like Bareburger, Salt & Bone was opened with community and sustainability at its core. Local partnerships with Hifi Records, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, and a small pop-up shop in Singlecut Brewery, have already given the Smokehouse deep ties to its neighbors.

When EP came to me and told me that he was going to create an all-sustainable-authentic barbecue joint I started laughing. When he didn't laugh back, I realized this guy was dead serious and the only thing I could say was - let's do it.

Spiro Koroudes, Pitmaster

To achieve Salt & Bone’s goal of being as sustainable as Bareburger’s now 45 locations, Euripides brought on fellow Astoria-native Spiro Koroudes. Spiro made a name for himself at the James-Beard -Award-nominated Delany’s BBQ in Brooklyn, New York. “When EP came to me and told me that he was going to create an all-sustainable-authentic barbecue joint, I started laughing. When he didn’t laugh back, I realized this guy was dead serious and the only thing I could say was - let’s do it,” said Koroudes about deciding to join the team as Pitmaster.

After a year of development, these two Astoria kids had a menu with a sourcing list that reads like a local weather report. Meats from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, all coming together in Queens to be slow-smoked, treated, and eaten the way properly-grown food should be. Once again this neighborhood has a new sustainable restaurant - poised to make it big like its big Bareburger brother.