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I finally popped my White Manna cherry:

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DAMN. That is a good, good burger.

http://prod.newsday.com/blogs/long-island/feed-me-1.812004/bobby-flay-betters-his-burger-palace-1.1370486

Good news as now the burgers can be cooked to order.

It is so wasteful, it is surprising that it is not in America!

Erin:

Someone sent me a link to the blog you did on QSR oatmeal (Jamba Juice won). I've since discovered what an oatmeal afficionado you are and wanted you to know two things:
1. Jamba Juice serves Country Choice Organic Steel Cut Oats
2. You can buy them at a variety of local retailers

Just thought you would like to know.

Warm regards,

John DePaolis
Chief Cookie (and Oatmeal) Officer

Even though this place is only a few minutes from our house we have made other choices for our burgers.

$7.50+ for just a burger is pretty steep compared to other places in the area. Add in a side and a drink and it totals to $12+.

The burgers itself are pretty good. I had the Crunchburger and my wife had the Palace Classic. I like my burgers medium rare and as covered above it was not possible. The burgers had a nice char/crunch on the patty and the buns were nice and soft. The fries were ok and the onion rings were decent. The shakes were nothing spectacular.

What bothered me was that there were seperate windows and cooks for the sides, shake, and burgers. We watched our onion ring and fries sit on the counter while waiting for our burgers. Our shake had the longest wait and was a goopy mess when it came with everything else.

American Roadside Burgers in Smithtown was a cheaper bet with burgers a notch below.

had my first experience with bbp last week. i got a large order for takeout - 8 burgers and 6 sides and had to wait about 20 minutes. it was very busy. there were 2 kids at the registers taking orders and even bussing tables to keep everything moving. it is not a big place and i thought the set up was sort of odd - half booths, half counter. i think they definitly need bit more organization at the front, especially when busy..people were stacking up on line and at the takeout area. not that the wait was bad, but its difernt when you are alreaday sitting and hav to wait for your food than if you have to wait just to order while standing in line. (one dirtbag refilled his soda while his friend blocked anyones view and walked out with the glass)

foodwise - its a burger joint. don't think of it as mesa grill...the prices are very reasonable and the food is basic and good. i personally don't like rare meat of any kind, so just the wee bit of pink in the middle of the burgers was fine. the onion rings were good...fries were the weak part - very dull - they need spice or crunch - something to perk them up....the 'hot chips' i thought would be spicy, hence the blue cheese dip, but i think they just mean hot tempature-wise, so by the time i got home, they were just chips. the blue cheese dip was good though - nice and chunky. the burgers were a decent size. we tried the crunchburger, l.a. burger, napa burger (all good), blue burger (very good) and buffalo burger (my favorite!)

the bottom line is i will definitly go back for the couple of burgers we really enjoyed, when i am in the area. the best burgers i have found yet are in a hole in the wall called 'american burger' in rockville centre - check them out!

worldcupfever: don't be sad. I was just being defensive. for me, pizza is about cheese and sauce and bread.

i am embarrassed that my typo would be publicized like this (i don't know why i didn't notice before) but that first part should say

"I just discovered Slice the same way Columbus discovered the new world, since really it was there the whole time!"

"Toppings are for suckers".

This makes me sad. Isn't that the whole idea?

Ewwwwwww...these are ugly.

Forget the bottles...Coca Light is the BEST! There's nothing like sipping an ice cold Coca Light on a hot summer day in Paris. Coke Zero kinda tastes similar, and believe it or not but the Wal-Mart brand coke does a pretty good job too. I've been obsessed with CL since 8th grade!

I went to college at UW-LaCrosse. Pizza Doctors is not only a place with a cool theme but the pizza is really great!

They have a bunch of medically themed pizzas like the "Heart Stopper" (tons of pork on that) and the "Frankenstein" which is a pizza that has about everything on it. They also have some pizza with a boat load of super spicy peppers and stuff on it. I think they call that one the "Cardiac Arrest".

That was the first place I'd ever heard of that had peanut butter and jelly pizza, thanksgiving dinner pizza (turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy), macaroni and cheese pizza and so on...

If you have the means and the opportunity, you won't be dissapointed!

if you are interested in going to the Mitsuwa Marketplace (I don't think Trader Joe's and whole foods is worth the trip) there is a shuttle bus that goes there from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Yeah it may seem strange to take the path into NYC and then take the shuttle to edgewater but it'll do in a pinch.