Photo: BareburgerElkasaurus
The burger that shows off the menu’s wild side. Grass-fed elk is leaner and a little gamier than beef, so it gets help from bacon, cheddar, mushrooms, caramelised onion and a smoky sauce. The result is deep and savoury rather than strange. A good first game burger for the curious.
The story
Elk is farmed across North America for meat, and it eats nothing like beef: very lean, faintly sweet, with almost none of the intramuscular fat that keeps a burger together. That is the whole challenge of putting it on a bun, and why the toppings on a game burger are always doing structural work rather than decoration. Bareburger opened in Astoria in 2009 selling exactly this — grass-fed beef next to bison and elk, at a time when nowhere in Queens was doing it — and the wild meats are still what the menu is known for.
What’s inside
- 6oz grass-fed elk
- uncured bacon
- sharp cheddar
- wild mushroom
- caramelized onion
- smoke sauce
- bun
Make it at home
No copycat of the Elkasaurus yet. It is on the list.
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About Bareburger
Bareburger began as burgers cooked in the cramped kitchen of Sputnik, a music venue in Brooklyn. Euripides Pelekanos and his partners, his brother among them, moved into a run-down former bakery in Astoria, Queens, in 2009 and opened a forty-seat restaurant. Within a month the dining room was packed, the place paid for itself in ten months, and they started franchising almost immediately.
Restaurants mostly in New York City and the surrounding states.
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