So I was New York a couple a weeks ago and had just ate some NY pizza, which you have to have a slice a pizza when you’re there but I was there to eat some all kinds of different food after all, so even though the overpriced slice of pizza pie was decent, it wasn’t exactly where I was really trying to go. I was looking for a hamburger. So, I got myself on the subway and made it down to Chelsea/West Village where I got off, happened to walk right by a café like kind of jazz music place called Cafe Loup that someone had recommended, completely by accident, and I was like of all the restaurants in this city what are the chances. I wonder if I should go in…no, next time…it would have been nice to hear some jazz, etc. but the situation was that I was on a mission already. Eventually, I made it down to 299 Bowery and picked up a burger at  DBGB, Daniel Boulud’s newest restaurant/bar over in this like hip part of town. I ordered one of their infamous hamburgers, it was called:
The Frenchie: a 6 oz beef patty with confit pork belly, arugula, tomato-onion compote & morbier cheese on a peppered brioche bun with cornichon, mustard & fries. (Though the house-made bun was delicious, it wasn’t peppered, BTW)
The fries were good but not perfect. The plate cost $17. It was a little silly paying that much for a burger, I didn’t think it would be worth it. After a few bites, however, once I stopped critiquing it and started just chilling out, enjoying my burger…it was actually pretty stellar. Sometimes, you just have to slow down a bit, let the juice run down to your elbow and stare at the people all busy trying to look cool…because it was a really good hamburger.