{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Savor with Tiffany Pham","title":"The Organic Burger with Euripides Pelekanos, Founder of Bareburger","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1595,"description":"The Supreme Burger at Bareburger exists because of a McDonald's drive-through.\nEuripides Pelekanos ran a bar in Bed-Stuy called Sputnik through the 2000s, a room where KRS-One, Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Premier all played and where Pratt students, the housing projects and the Hasidic community all stayed until three in the morning. He would get out at half four, five in the morning, stop at McDonald's on the way home and order four cheeseburgers, large fries, and a Diet Coke. Then he would open every cheeseburger and stuff the fries inside.\n\"I'm embarrassed to tell you this story,\" he says, and then tells it anyway.\nTiffany Pham sits down with him over the burger that story became: a grass-fed patty, applewood smoked bacon, an onion ring on top with french fries packed inside it, and a special sauce he will happily tell you is ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise, because every special sauce in the world is.\nThe rest of the conversation is the harder half. His parents came from Cyprus as refugees in 1974, two years before he was born, into a five-room apartment in Astoria. He was stocking sodas at Dom's Deli at twelve. He taught social studies for two years before he opened anything. The first Bareburger was a shuttered bakery in Astoria with a poster of a bear on a unicycle in the window, and the neighbourhood decided they were California hippies. Six months later there were a hundred people waiting outside.\nThen fifty restaurants, in Santa Monica and Japan and Germany and Dubai. Then COVID, and the decision to close the ones that were not in his backyard. Thirty restaurants now, in the tri-state area, plus two in Ohio.\nAsked who he is making this for, he says: everybody.\nSavor with Tiffany Pham, a Representation production, is a companion to the television docuseries premiering May 2027. Cinematography by: Kym Pham.\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 \"So good to see you\", and the Supreme Burger\n00:38 Old school New York: Cyprus, 1974, and a five-room apartment in Astoria\n01:30 Dom's Deli...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IxuWnflAOf8GdA8Vg9De5VVZjd23x5Il6_3nWxFdE0c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNTM4/MmQ5MGMzZjMzMTAy/N2U4Y2NmMGI2MGI0/OTJlYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}