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There's a new place to get smashburgers in Huntington and almost everything on the regular menu costs $10 or less. BRGRS is a new fast-casual spot owned by three Melville brothers.

It’s been a long, hard journey for the Singh brothers. In 2017, the oldest, Amarjit "Rana" Singh, had opened a bar and grill in Bayside, Queens and an Indian tapas spot in Manhattan when he was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. He ultimately left the businesses.

"Our family was broken," explained Jasprit "Bobby" Singh, who along with their other brother, Daljit "Raja" Singh, became Rana's caregivers. For the next seven years, the family plotted their next food concept with a goal "of giving Rana back all that he had lost.”

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Eat a plantain stuffed with bacon, bite into a cream-filled Oreo churro or try the daring pairing of shrimp in sweet chili sauce with Belgian waffles. Long Islanders can kick-start their appetites when the new Mineola Foodie Festival arrives this week.

The festival will feature more than 60 vendors serving from both trucks and booths, as well as a live DJ, kids activities and a market with food products, home goods and kitchen gadgets.

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Willie B is back. A fixture on the local barbecue front from 2003 to 2014, Will Breakstone has taken over a Long Island deli where he also mounts regular barbecue pop-ups.

There was a time when you couldn’t cover barbecue on Long Island without writing about Breakstone. The decorated pitmaster triumphed at local cook-offs such as Battle of the BBQ Brethren and Long Island Grill Kings, ran an eponymous competition, WilliePallooza, from 2008 to 2013 and set up shop at Lily Flanagans in Islip and South Shore BBQ Co. in Patchogue.

But after he left that last gig, it was radio silence. Or was it?

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It was 2002 when Brian Karp and his college buddy Chris Evans opened Press 195 in Brooklyn. The idea for the concept was taken from a trip that Karp took to Florence, Italy, for a wedding. He fell in love with the city’s casual panini shops.

The duo soon expanded Press 195 to Bayside, Queens, in 2005, and Rockville Centre in 2010, but after a series of tough setbacks — the rent in Brooklyn tripled, their third partner, Jimmy Volz, died of cancer — it was time to press reset. Now comes a new location.

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