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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

White fish on an everything bagel with cream cheese, tomato, cream/herring onions and american cheese.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Bagel with white fish, plain cream cheese, onions, tomato and the onions from the herring cream sauce.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Everything Bagel (from Ess-a-Bagel), topped with plain cream cheese, white fish, onions in herring cream sauce, two slices of tomato, and 2 slices of american cheese. mmmmmmm thinking about it makes me hungry!

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Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

I know that most people consider ground beef to be the only true burger, but I would highly recommend trying the turkey burger from Johnny Rockets. I get the original burger as a turkey burger, with american cheese added. Please try this and tell me this isn't phenomenal. I have never eaten a better turkey burger in my life (and I have eaten many). It's messy, juicy and delicious, just the way I like it. I would love to see some write-ups about alternative burger options (turkey/veggie/etc...) since not everyone eats ground beef.

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From Serious Eats

Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

White fish on an everything bagel with cream cheese, tomato, cream/herring onions and american cheese.

From Serious Eats

Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Bagel with white fish, plain cream cheese, onions, tomato and the onions from the herring cream sauce.

From Serious Eats

Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Everything Bagel (from Ess-a-Bagel), topped with plain cream cheese, white fish, onions in herring cream sauce, two slices of tomato, and 2 slices of american cheese. mmmmmmm thinking about it makes me hungry!

From A Hamburger Today

Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

I know that most people consider ground beef to be the only true burger, but I would highly recommend trying the turkey burger from Johnny Rockets. I get the original burger as a turkey burger, with american cheese added. Please try this and tell me this isn't phenomenal. I have never eaten a better turkey burger in my life (and I have eaten many). It's messy, juicy and delicious, just the way I like it. I would love to see some write-ups about alternative burger options (turkey/veggie/etc...) since not everyone eats ground beef.

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Best hot chocolate in NYC?

This is probably going to come off badly, considering it is not the p.c. thing to say on these boards, but I just have to put it out there that Dunkin Donuts makes the best hot chocolate (you must NOT get the milkey way kind, just the regular hot coco with whipped cream) I have every tasted. Let me also just note that I am not a dark chocolate fan, but I love milk chocolate (so all that dessert trunk, maison, etc... is not for me).

From A Hamburger Today

Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

The fries are wayyyy overrated! They must not cook them twice, or rinse them or soak them or neither. The fries are too starchy (and barely crisp) an end result. The burgers are very good though; bun has good density.

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Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

try burger 'n que's 1/2 pound cheeseburger in orland park--it beats them all

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Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

I rate the place exactly as you do. The cooked in peanut oil fries were fantastic, the burger was rather mundane. Free peanuts were a nice touch, but kinda kill the appetite.

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Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

@toad3000:
I completely agree about never writing off an establishment on opening day...that's why, if you read the rest of what I wrote, I went back again about 2 weeks later and had the EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE. Some of the things that I had a problem with really should have no bearing on when I went...the quality of the ingredients like buns and cheese are not going to change and should have been INCREDIBLY fresh on opening day. They should never be more fresh than when I went the first time. Those were two of the biggest problems for me. Gummy buns and cheese that tasted worse than what they use at McDonalds is not going to win any points. And they were the exact same the second time, which tells me that there's no reason to expect that they'll be any different in the future.

But the other things like getting an order wrong, possibly seasoning the meat wrong and cooking it poorly...I can understand that being done on opening day. So I went back and tried again...and it was all the same. Almost exactly. Should I try again and expect it to be different? Possibly, but why when there were so many other things that I didn't like about the place. There are too many good burger places in town, why waste time going back again and again that I've already been to twice and have not enjoyed?

And my biggest complaint was the price. So, if I have now waited a couple of months and go back again, do you think the price will have dropped by 1/3 to be more in line with the quality? I'm fairly sure it won't.

But thanks for the "rocket science" comment. I think I really gave them a fair shot. I didn't just go on opening day and then bash them. I went twice, had two OK experiences, but nothing that I feel that I need to have again. After all of the hype I've read about the place, I was quite disappointed. And I was blown away by the price! Thanks for trying.

From A Hamburger Today

Five Guys' Fries Make Me Weep with Happiness, Burger Is Not Bad

@bwbollom:
You should never write off an eating establishment if you went there on opening day. Better yet, you should never GO to an eating establishment on opening day. That's just asking to be a "learning experience" for the new staff members.
@Rodrene:
You should travel less. Or at least, stop eating at airports. ;-) Go to an actual, established location outside of the airport to get the true experience.

This isn't rocket science, people.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Thank you for participating, and congratulations to our winner: pickledseeds

Winner has been notified by email and also appears on our Contest Winners page.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Wolfgang Puck's Lox & cream cheese pizza. I think it even has a few capers on it. Anyway, it is a great twist on the traditional lox, cheese, & bagel.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

My favorite NY breakfast item would have to be bagels with cream cheese and lox. When I was little, my mom used to eat that too and I couldn't stand the taste of it. Now though I love it. I actually love pickled herring in cream sauce now too and I couldn't stand it growing up. Thanks for the contest!

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

what could be better than cream cheese and lox ....my mouth is watering

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Im saying Pastrami on Rye with Spicy golden mustard. rangrace(at)hotmail.com

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Smoked salmon with cream cheese on a bagel. yummy. teechbiz at yahoo dot com

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