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Hot Chocolate: The Burger

Apr 25, 11

Posted by Edmund in Chicago, Eclectic, Featured Articles, Restaurants

Cuisine: Dessert, American. Location: 1747 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647-5508. Price: $13 for a burger. I was on the last leg of my burger run through Chicago. I had already had 4 other burgers that same day, ranging from the intensely gourmet foie gras-loaded burger at Sweets and Savories to the most basic, bare-bones...

Billy Goat Tavern & Grill

Feb 17, 11

Posted by Edmund in Chicago, Featured Articles, Gastropub, Restaurants

Cuisine: Gastropub/Slow Fast Food Burger. Location: Numerous Locations in Chicago, but the original is at 430 N. Michigan Ave. Price: $2.85 for a cheeseburger. No menu item exceeds $6. It was St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, and I was in the mood to go to some traditional Irish pubs for a good beer and a burger, i.e. some real...

Custom House Tavern: The Burger

Jan 05, 11

Posted by Edmund in Chicago, Featured Articles, Gastropub, Restaurants

Cuisine: American, Bar Food. Location: 500 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60605-1532. Price: $14 for a burger, $6 for fries. When I think of “tavern,” I always think of a run-down, outdated pub serving up dirty grub in a shady part of town. I know that’s a little bit stereotypical, but a bar’s typically just a bar,...

Sweets and Savories

Dec 30, 10

Posted by Edmund in Chicago, Featured Articles, Gastropub, Restaurants

Cuisine: Eclectic, with a heavy American and French influence Location: 500 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60605-1532 Price: Entrees run about $20-$25. $17 for a Kobe Beef and Foie Gras Burger, $5 for Fries. Ah, the mythical foie gras burger. It’s a legend that’s been attempted countless times before in the search for the...

Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage

Dec 22, 10

Posted by Edmund in Boston, Burger, Featured Articles, Restaurants

Cuisine: Gourmet Burger Restaurant/Slow Fast Food. Location: 1246 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Price: About $10 for a burger. $3-$5 for fries, milkshake, onion rings (each). Before I headed over to Boston to check out Harvard, I had a chance to talk to a few friends of mine who lived in the area about the eating scene....

Radius

Sep 18, 10

Posted by Edmund in Boston, Featured Articles, Gastropub, Restaurants

Cuisine: Eclectic, Fine Dining, Bar Food. Specialty: Radius Burger, Deconstructed Boston Cream Donuts. Location: 8 High Street, Boston, MA 02110. Price: $19 for the Burger w/ Fries. I’ve traveled the nation, eating at the great burger Meccas of the United States: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. Yet I’d...

Ray’s Hell Burger

Sep 14, 10

Posted by Edmund in Fast Food, Featured Articles, Restaurants, Washington, DC

Cuisine: Slow Fast Food Burger. Location: 1725 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22209. Price: Most signature burgers cost $8-$10, but there are a couple for about $17 (they come with foie gras). I’ve touched on the DC-Virginia-Maryland gourmet burger craze quite a bit recently. Residents just can’t seem to get enough of this...

Father’s Office

Father’s Office Gastropub/Burger Bar $12 for the Office Burger, extra for fries and drink. 2 locations in Los Angeles I’ve been to both locations, and both are the same experience, more or less, though the one in downtown LA is much larger. The addresses are: 1018 Montana Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90403 3229 Helms Avenue Los...

8 oz. Burger Bar

8 oz. Burger Bar Gastropub About $10 to $15 for a burger. 2 locations—one in LA and one in Miami I went to the one in LA, at: 7661 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA My brother wanted to take me out the other day just to hang out, so we went to grab some food. He’d been craving a real gourmet burger for a very long time, so we did...