My all-time favorite burger, hands down, is the one served at a hole-in-the-wall place on Roosevelt Island called The Terrace Restaurant. Maybe it’s the fries, which are also fabulous, or the fact that the bun is always perfectly toasted. I’ll put it up against Jackson Hole anytime.
I’ve had the burger at least a dozen times over the years, and only once was it sub par. That was when a new waiter, whose English was poor, got my order wrong and the burger was well done (the kiss of death to any burger.) Don’t worry – he’s got it now. Medium-rare. The only way to go. Make sure you order the burger deluxe platter.
We ate at The Terrace Sunday night before seeing “Short Shorts”, a reading of one act plays written by the teen playwrighting class at the Main Street Theater and Dance Alliance across the street. Truly amazing what these kids have written.
Yum yum, u made me real hungry.I love burgers too, not the HOME-MADE ones ofcourse but here burger king is a satisfaction, otherwise i’d be envying u right now.
Oh. My. God.
I’m on a diet and currently not eating this kind of food…but this picture is almost as good.
BTW, what camera are you using? Food is notoriously hard to make look good in photos, you’re doing a great job.
Lisa:
Thanks!
I use a Canon Power shot 650. I avoid the flash and use the manual settings. It’s an amzingly simple camera to use, and impossible to take a bad picture with. I want to get a flash that bounces like Dooce.com just got for Xmas. I am very jealous of her photos.
My wife and I were in NYC in October. We arrived late on a very, very rainy Saturday night, and shared a small umbrella and a long walk to The Burger Joint.
Those were the only burgers we ate on our trip, but what burgers. Cooked to order, juicy, and served with a side of fries so recently removed from the fryer that they singed my fingers.
It was also refreshing to eat a burger cooked medium rare — in Toronto most places will not cook a burger to anything less than medium well. Ugh!
That was a tasty trip.
Rob