We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
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We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
Recently visited Bobby's burgers! It left me flat...they are sissy mary burgers! The Good Steer a mile down the road beats them hands down..and you get fries or onion rings with them! If you love a real burger..don't bother..Bobby this is Long Island...We take our burgers seriously! Go visit the Good Steer! They have been in business for over 50 years and still going strong..bet you can't pass it without stopping in!
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
I sought guidance from the Talmud.
' To say too much is to say nothing ', so my commentary is to kvetch about the frozen french fries. So the young prince is so lazy or uninspired that he thinks his customers don't deserve fresh, hand cut fries ?
He should realize that 50' away in the Food Court is a Nathan's which has
delicious ones and could be sneaked in by an irate customer who feels insulted by the drecky ones he serves !
The more I type the angrier I become, he thinks we're fools, and I thought he was a classy guy. Ego blemishes judgement. He should talk to his Rabbi also about the small portions of everything. What a long conversation that would be !!
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
I also agree with Storm Cadet. Just ate there (7-22-2008 @ 5:30 pm) and it was terrible. NOT WORTH THE PRICE. We waited on the line and only one person was behind the register. Then the place was FULL of flies...everywhere. We finally found seats and waited for our food. I ordered two cheeseburgers, fries, and an order of onion rings. The hamburgers are small and the fries were just okay...nothing great. Where are the napkins??? For the amount of money I spent ($30) I really expected something quite different. Very disappointed and I wont go back.
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
I wished, I waited and hope springs eternal . . . . . however the Iron Chef was not to deliver on his promise.
God, I hate disappointment. Actually I have been to BBP on three ocassions, always varieing my order and never being very pleased. Too
many flaws. Perhaps I'll wait a year to return. It was stated earlier 'hope springs eternal'
By the way, does anyone know what ever happened to Jackie Malouf ?
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
I love steaks rare, but to be honest I really don't like burgers rare. I simply don't like the texture of it and never order them below medium.
Anyone else like that or am I the exception?
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
Never go to a restaurant the first month of opening with any expectations other than low. No matter what the restaurant, or who the restaurant owner may be. Soft opening or not there will be lots of issues & lots of disappointment.
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
I agree with storm cadet, Terrible.
I work in the area and had seen the lines out the door so I ordered to go. I had the Napa Valley burger (watercress, goat cheese and meyer lemon honey mustard) and a few co-workers ordered various other burgers. We all agreed that the burgers seemed very small, thrown together, with fancy sounding ingredients that didn't really make a difference. The buns were basic supermarket potato rolls and came soggy. Also, the lettuce on one of the burgers was old and wilted and the watercress on mine was also very wilted and the taste almost unnoticeable. I thought that may have been due to it being take out but it has never happened with take-out from other restaurants in the area (Ruby Tuesdays, Applebees, Fridays) and another co-worker ate there and was equally disappointed.
As for sides (not included in the price of the burger), the fries were ok and the onion rings were pretty good but nothing special. I made the mistake of ordering the Hot Potato Chips as a side. I was expecting thinly sliced fried potatoes, something along the lines of butterfly fries. What I got was a single serving bag size of lays-ish potato chips that were warmed (I probably should have asked about them before ordering). The milkshakes were alright, but considering there is a Carvel and Haagen Dazs in the mall food court (the restaurant entrance is right next to the mall doors to the food court) I wouldn't bother again.
It cost about $16-$17 per person (with a burger, side and shake). I would place the burgers somewhere between Wendy's or Burger King quality and Ruby Tuesdays or Applebees quality (more towards the fast food level). Also the "medium and up" cooking level is strange because Ruby's offers "Pittsburgh Rare" which is completely red.
I know this may sound a little harsh but it was truly disappointing. I may give it one more chance after it has been around for a while and gotten its act together, though I doubt that much of the problems were due to being a new restaurant.
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
Well I just ate there and had a terrible overall experience.
First, you stand in line and order your food. Well they have 3 registers at the front desk area, but only staffed by one person. The line moves VERY slowly, and when it was my turn to order the cashier said I'll have to wait awhile as the retaurant was very busy. I explained to him I don't need a table that counter service was fine. So I place the order for my son and I,($27.00 for 2 burgers, 2 fries and soft drinks)and go wait. The way it is set up is you order, they give you a plastic number, you find your own seat and the waitress looks for you when the food is ready. This from a place that charges 27 for lunch. I don't think many Long Islanders will come back for service like this, especially when you can have a larger and better meal at the other Smith Haven Mall franchise eateries.(Houlihans, TGIF's,)
Well the give you a glass bottle of soda but no cup of ice to keep it cold. They are afraid if you get a cup you'll ALSO hit the fountain machine for more. So we waited about 20 minutes for the food and of course the drinks are now not cold.
Food was OK...I had the Dallas burger, VERY SMALL for 7.50 and my sons burger was SMOTHERED in hot wing sauce and blue cheese making it IMPOSSIBLE to pick up. Do they give you forks to eat this mess with the food...NOPE...had to ask for that too. Fries were OK, nothing special. Once the waitress brings the food, she's ghost as they are trying to hustle the food to all the tables and churn business. No water, no service?
That was and will be my 1st and last visit to Bobby's Burgers!
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
JUST playing my favorite role of Devil's Food Advocate here:
We are such a forensic culture! ("CSI: Burgers")...That "It's proprietary" line may seem terse, but...it's true (plus, Adam made the context clear, following up). Restaurant practices are not like our own medical records, for heaven's sakes, where we're entitled to them.
My guess would be Bobby Flay makes his own burgers Medium-Rare.
I don't want to hector the point, but it occurs to me that we (and I'm guilty of this, because I LOVE to deconstruct dishes) tend to assume we're entitled to information, simply because we assume someone COULD tell us if they WANTED to. When you own a business, people ask you the most oddly intimate (and what could be more intimate than "what's in one's squeeze bottle?..") questions, with a look of complete entitlement on their faces. Sometimes you can tell them, sometimes you can't, and sometimes you're just drawing an arbitrary line in the sea-salt.
At the risk of being dismissed as a Flay-struck female, or appearing to receive a stipend from BF PR, my own experience "interviewing" Bobby, he was nothing but generous, witty, AND gave me a personal recipe, to boot. And I'm no one.
http://www.happyhoarfrost.blogspot.com/2008/03/bobby-flay-apple-of-my-ribeye.html
He took a lot of time with me--because he had it just then. My guess is he's flat-out tired, as the current Trojan Workhorse of the Food Network.
Bobby Flay gives away plenty--I adore him and even I will let his squeeze bottle remain sacred.
Not that I won't wonder....
We Talk to Bobby Flay About Bobby's Burger Palace
@le bump- there's a big difference between eating a cut piece of steak and beef that's been ground up and mixed. Any bacteria that's lingering on a steak will be killed when cooked/seared on a grill/hot surface, where the any bacteria that's on a piece of meat that's to be ground up, no longer just has surface bacteria, it's mixed in with the grinding process, thus, if the meat is improperly cooked, any bacteria still is alive and excited to enter your body and have a party.
I very rarely eat hamburgers anymore, because as I mentioned earlier, I've gotten food poisoning TWICE from burgers, I have yet to get sick from a rare steak or carpaccio, raw beef, which is my weakness.
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