
Steak house The Butcher’s Bar & Grill opens in Williston Park

The team at The Butcher's Bar & Grill in Williston Park includes executive chef Oscar Martinez, left, and managing partner George Theodosiou. Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus
The Butcher’s Bar & Grill, a stylish steakhouse specializing in charcoal-grilled meats, has opened on Hillside Avenue in Williston Park.
With its whitewashed plaster, light wood and subway tile, the dining room resembles Newsday Top 10 Seafood restaurant Kyma in Roslyn — not a surprise since the two restaurants share a few owners. But in place of an iced fish display, BBG has a glass-fronted case of prime beef: sirloins, rib eyes, porterhouses, filet mignons and cowboy steaks (long-boned rib eyes) as well as pork chops and lamb chops.
Aside from the decidedly Hellenic-chic décor, another difference between BBG and many steakhouses is that, instead of being broiled under a gas flame, the steaks and chops here ($33 to $46) are grilled over oak charcoal.
Steakhouse classics on the menu include a raw bar, wedge salad and thick-cut slab bacon. You can detect a little Greek in the zucchini fritters with tzatziki sauce, Cretan salad and avgolemono soup. Also of interest: a starter of veal sweetbreads with creamy polenta and capers, seafood spaghetti and charcoal-grilled salmon. Most appetizers are in the low teens, non-steak mains in the high 20s. The BBG special burger, with aged cheddar, buttermilk onions rings and hand-cut fries, is $18.
Managing partner George Theodosiou served as maitre d’ at the Old Homestead Steak House in Manhattan, and for BBG he tapped Oscar Martinez, most recently the executive chef at The Old Homestead. (From 2012 to 2014, he ran the kitchen at Havana Central in Garden City.)
The Butcher’s Bar & Grill is at 75A Hillside Ave. Williston Park, 516-213-0019, tbbgny.com.