{"id":178454,"date":"2026-02-24T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:50:09","slug":"two-texas-barbecue-megastars-are-opening-an-nyc-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178454\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Texas Barbecue Megastars Are Opening an NYC Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two notable Texas pitmasters \u2014 Chuck Charnichart of Barbs B Q<\/a> in Lockhart and Jonny White of Goldee\u2019s Bar-B-Q<\/a> in Fort Worth \u2014 are bringing their barbecue to New York City. Kirbee\u2019s will open in Greenpoint at 55 McGuinness Boulevard South, between Engert Avenue and Newton Street, in the mid-to-late summer.<\/p>\n

Kirbee\u2019s will showcase Charnichart\u2019s and White\u2019s distinct takes on smoked meats. Hers adds South Texan and Mexican flavors and spices, while his is more of the modern approach: the brisket rub<\/a> is made with tumeric and paprika.<\/p>\n

The menu will be split into Barbs and Goldee\u2019s plates: the former through items like pork ribs with lime zest, brisket with Mexican spices, pork stew, and that green spaghett<\/a>; the latter with smoked turkey, properly seasoned brisket, coleslaw, and potato salad. White teases a mash-up of the two restaurants\u2019 desserts: the chocolate pudding (Barbs) and banana pudding (Goldee\u2019s).<\/p>\n

Kirbee\u2019s (a double-reference to the name of White\u2019s dog and the pink video game character) works as a casual Texas barbecue restaurant, with cafeteria-style ordering and cut-to-order meats and foods served on red trays lined with butcher paper. It\u2019ll be open for lunch on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n

Kirbee\u2019s 20-to-24-seat space is in the former Peeps Kitchen space, which closed<\/a> last fall, situated between McCarron and McGolrick parks. The two are working with design company Bolt, envisioning checkerboard floors, wood paneled walls, red-and-white exterior, and a sign simply stating that it\u2019s a barbecue restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re actually going to be using smoker ovens,\u201d White says, as opposed to offset smokers often used in Texas<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019ll taste exactly like Texas, it\u2019s just going to be one of those things where the purists are going to be upset.\u201d But \u201cour food here should be more consistent,\u201d he says; they\u2019ll use post oak wood chips.<\/p>\n

White tells Eater that he sold his Goldee\u2019s ownership share to Zain Shafi, who had run Pakistani barbecue truck Sabar BBQ<\/a> in Fort Worth, in December 2025.<\/p>\n

Kirbee\u2019s is in an out-of-the-way place as far as Greenpoint is concerned, yet it will likely pull the same kind of lines as they did in Texas. Since Kirbee\u2019s isn\u2019t legally allowed to give away free beer to people waiting in line (as they did in Texas), they\u2019ll sell dollar beers \u2014 ideally Lone Stars and Shiners. For a later date, the two are toying with adding a dinner menu \u2014 White mentions potentially burgers and avocado margaritas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two notable Texas pitmasters \u2014 Chuck Charnichart of Barbs B Q in Lockhart and Jonny White of Goldee\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71690,71691,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-178454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-coming-attractions","tag-nyc-restaurant-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}