Entries tagged with 'burgers'
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Uber-chef Thomas Keller, French Laundry and Per Se overlord, is getting into the butcher, burger, and frozen entrée business, according to Bloomberg News. Can this notorious control freak pull all these new businesses off? I think the answer is yes, though there will certainly be some bumps along the way. For Keller, like the Mario Batalis and Tom Colicchios of the world, restaurants are much harder to clone and open because they require a lot of talented, experienced, and skilled people. So it becomes much harder to open another Per Se or even another Bouchon, because each of them has so many moving parts. But a burger place (even one called Burgers and Bottles) is a much simpler proposition....
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I'll admit it. We didn't go out this past Saturday night, so I found myself watching the Bon Appétit Best American Restaurants special hosted by Alton Brown on the Food Network. The show itself was reasonably entertaining, though no one would call it suspenseful. Brown is perhaps my favorite Food Network personality, but he looked totally bored and disengaged on this particular show. Andrew Knowlton and Barbara Fairchild of Bon Appétit were knowledgeable and credible as the magazine's on-camera experts, but they kept talking about passion without exhibiting very much themselves....
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Whenever a guidebook like Ian Jackman's Eat This! comes out, it seems like the natural inclination of anyone who loves food is to jump to the sections that matter most to him or her. It's a quick way to figure out where the writer stands and whether your tastes mesh. If they do, you're more likely to trust him on other items or locations you might not know firsthand. I paged through immediately to Jackman's chapter on burgers, and he namechecks most of the heavyweights in American burgerdom: Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, the Apple Pan in Los Angeles, and the burgers I grew up on in suburban Kansas City—Winstead's. More burger goodness follows, but for now, I'll remind...
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When you love fried chicken as much as I do you get really bugged when Bon Appétit announces its three finalists in its search for the best fried chicken in the U.S. and Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken is not on the list. Not that the other three contenders, Blackberry Farm (Walland, Tennessee), Price's Chicken Coop (Charlotte, North Carolina), and Willa Mae's Scotch House (New Orleans) are not worthy of serious consideration. I have written lovingly of Willa Mae Seaton's wondrous fried chicken in GQ and Business Week. (Those stories don't appear to be online or else I'd link to them.) My friend John T. Edge, whom I trust implicitly in these matters (he did write the book on fried...
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The Gothamist-AHT/SE QBQ BBQ II Photograph courtesy of Jason Perlow Last year, Serious Eats burger site A Hamburger Today teamed up with Gothamist for the Gothamist-AHT QBQ (that's Quality Before Quantity), we've decided to team up with them again this year for another burger bash at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens. At last year's event, chef Harry Hawk served four regional burgers from around the nation. We're doing something similar this year, but this time you get to choose which burgers will be served, with the top three vote-getters across Gothamist and A Hamburger Today/Serious Eats making the menu. Some are regional specialties, and some are original Water Taxi Beach creations. I'll get to the candidate burgers...
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The burger above might look fairly ordinary, but the patty is not ground chuck or ground sirloin or any kind of ground beef. That, my friends, is 100 percent ground bacon, skillet-cooked ("to avoid having it break apart on the grill"), and sandwiched between two slices of pepper Jack cheese....
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Earlier today, our own Serious Eats overlord was lamenting the dearth of affordable eats in Tokyo. Will Burger King do, Ed? The chain closed a few years ago, but it's back. The travel blog Gridskipper reports that the line for a Whopper (or Whaler or what have you) at the Shinjuku outlet can be as long as 1.5 hours. A second BK will open in the Ikebukuro district later this month. Photograph from yuichi.sakuraba on Flickr...
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Or, "When Doing What's Right Is Called 'Gourmet' " So this kinda gets my hackles up. A story in the Dallas Morning News headlined "Burgers go gourmet" takes on the issue of restaurants and burger chains that "take the humble hamburger to the next gastronomic level."...
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Yesterday I headed out to Aspen, Colorado, for the Food & Wine Classic. I'll be filing periodic reports from here, but since I knew I was going to be getting a lot of fancy-pants cooking in the next three days, I decided that my travel day would be hot dogs–hamburgers-and–pizza day. It actually turned into a fun food adventure day....
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Over on Serious Eats burger site A Hamburger Today, there was some serious discussion last week about readers' favorite local burger joints. There are some serious-sounding places submitted by AHT readers. After the jump, all 61 recommendations. If you have your own to add to the roster, feel free to do so in the comments, and we'll include it in later revisions of this list....
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