Burger Club

[Suzanne F]

I just realized I can't make the 13th. I'll be selling cookies and pies etc. In Bloomfield.

Would you be willing to push it up a day, or choose some place I'm not going to anyway?

Uh oh. Now I'm lost. Could we do it the next week, or will everyone be too busy getting ready for Xmas?

[sherribabee]

I just realized I can't make the 13th.  I'll be selling cookies and pies etc. In Bloomfield. 

Would you be willing to push it up a day, or choose some place I'm not going to anyway?

Uh oh. Now I'm lost. Could we do it the next week, or will everyone be too busy getting ready for Xmas?

The 13th is just about the only day I have free until after new years. So if we have to do it another day, I won't be able to make it.

[JosephB]

I just realized I can't make the 13th. I'll be selling cookies and pies etc. In Bloomfield.

Would you be willing to push it up a day, or choose some place I'm not going to anyway?

Sunday, 12/14?

[Suzanne F]

Well, Blue Smoke is open for lunch on Sundays. We have no problem changing to Sunday 12/14.

[tommy]

i can't make sunday.

[Blondie]

I can't make Sunday either.

[elyse]

Why don't you change it to Corner Bistro, Fairway, or Jackson Hole, then? If you wouldn't mind.

[JosephB]

We're in if it's Corner Bistro or Fairway. I don't think you can reserve at Fairway, and it's pretty busy on Sat. afternoon. On the other hand, they have some tables where 8 could squeeze in.

[Suzanne F]

So shall I tell Blue Smoke we have to postpone?

[elyse]

Ja mind?

[sherribabee]

Hmmm...

Do we really have to go somewhere else? My 2 friends who were planning to join us wanted to come because it was Blue Smoke. They probably won't come if we go somewhere else.

[tommy]

Do we really have to go somewhere else?

yes. it's not Burger Club without elyse.

[elyse]

Can't they come another day?

[sherribabee]

Do we really have to go somewhere else?

yes. it's not Burger Club without elyse.

Then what difference does it make if we go somewhere else then?

[Lurker]

Wait -- has anyone mentioned that The Lurker and his friends came directly from eating at Daisy Mae's BBQ across the street? Fat guys in training (except they're all skinny ).

Lurker & his friends DID come from Daisy May's and will "preview" the ribs, cornbread, okra, and beer at Blue Smoke, too. We're also planning a January road trip to Montreal b/c we've heard that 4 star beef is stacking up at the border.

My feelings toward this burger (priced at $8): It's like vanilla pudding - I wouldn't ever seek it out, but I also wouldn't refuse it if it were served. If the burger was $8 and a friend said "my B-Day party is a Landmark", I would go.

Now that I know that was a $13 burger, however, I feel a lot different. This is vanilla pudding priced like a truffle. At the $13 price point, if a friend said "my B-Day party is a Landmark", I would either skip or eat beforehand.

BTW, a HUGE shoutout to whoever recommended the JUdson Grill burger. I took my client there yesterday and got a big thumbs up. It's expensive at $15.50, but worth it, especially when the fries are good and the onion rings are some of the best in the city.

[elyse]

Do we really have to go somewhere else?

yes. it's not Burger Club without elyse.

Pfft. Like you'd know.

[elyse]

BTW, a HUGE shoutout to whoever recommended the JUdson Grill burger. I took my client there yesterday and got a big thumbs up. It's expensive at $15.50, but worth it, especially when the fries are good and the onion rings are some of the best in the city.

Worth it if you're on an expense account?

[elyse]

So, another day, or another restaurant?

I might not be able to make the next Saturday or Sunday for Christmas baking as well.

Pies or pao de queijo, anyone?

[tommy]

BTW, a HUGE shoutout to whoever recommended the JUdson Grill burger.  I took my client there yesterday and got a big thumbs up.  It's expensive at $15.50, but worth it, especially when the fries are good and the onion rings are some of the best in the city.

Worth it if you're on an expense account?

i bet it's worth it if you have $15.50.

[elyse]

$15.50 = $25 - $30.

[Suzanne F]

$15.50 = $25 - $30.

Huh?

So where do we stand? Sat 12/13 is now out because elyse can't come, and if she's not there, it's not BC.

Beyond that, ?????

[elyse]

You can't order a $15.50 burger and leave paying $15.50. Like I had a $13.50 burger and a fucking COKE for 20 fucking dollars at Landmark. Totally out of hand.

You can have BC without me. I'd prefer if you went somewhere I'm not going to anyway, though. But you guys choose what you want to do.

[MHesse]

Here's an alternative:

Don't change the venue, change the menu (hey...that rhymes!)

We could still go to Blue Smoke, but not eat burgers. I haven't been there yet and it seemed a bit of a shame to go to a 'barbecue' place and eat hamburgers.

[elyse]

And the chances for going back again for burgers would be...?

[MHesse]

Every month, a group of my high school alumni meet at the Old Town for food (usually brugers) and beverages. Tonight was the night, but the upstairs room was booked for a party. So we ended up 2 blocks east at Pete's Tavern. I had a burger there.

Without the official form in front of me, here's my account.

Big burger - 10.5 ounces, served on a toasted roll. Hard to fit in mouth. One alum removed her reading glasses so the large burger wouldn't scare her.

No thermometer, but served hot. Ordered medium rare, but received rare. Good layer of char. Nice meat flavor. Curiously not juicy -- mine at least -- others were using multiple napkins. Served with pathetic tomato slice and one lettuce leaf piece and a pickle spear. Also thick, butcher cut fries that were done, but I like my fries well done. $8.50 for plain burger. What else? I don't remember, still jet lagged from sleepless Tuesday night redeye flight from California.

Double Diamond on tap. I like DD.