When Eugene Cleghorn and Sam Neely moved to New York from San Francisco back in 2007, they realized they had a problem. “There were, like, no burritos,” said Cleghorn. They had grown up chowing down on Mission-style burritos, the steamed and stuffed gut bombs pioneered in their hometown as a cheap eat for hungry workers. But in New York, pizza had always played that role, and the burrito had never taken hold. The duo decided that, one day, they would make this city taste a real burrito.
Today, Cleghorn and Neely are taking the next big step on their quest. After three years of running the popular Super Burrito stand on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, they’ve moved to a year-round brick-and-mortar just a couple minutes away. At 190 Beach 69th St. in Arverne, in what looks like the…
