It is perhaps unfair of me to fault Mother Flipper for slightly overcooking their burgers, missing by less than a minute the liftoff from the flat-top griddle to juicy medium rare. This has happened twice, first in February at its original home ground at Brockley...
medium rare
My Confidence Cracked in the Bistro du Vin Burger
I figured my visit to the new Bistro du Vin at 36 Dean Street in Soho would be uneventful. To update my top 10 burgers in London list I needed only to verify its burger was as good as the chargrilled sensation at the Bistro du Vin on St John Street. I was also curious...
el doble my double burger benchmark
The El Doble at Txikito (pronounced "chic-kee-toe") Â - a Basque restaurant in New York's Chelsea. The chubby double burger is draped with smoked sheep's milk cheese and peppery salsa especial. The version seen above was requested to be on the rare side of...
2 signs your burger will be subprime
If you order a burger and the server pivots away without asking you how you want it cooked, that is already a bad omen. Restaurants that don't elicit doneness orders may not think a burger is worth the bother. (A waiver for the doneness designation should only be...
My burger doneness color strip
Looking at them now these almost look more like Mark Rothko paintings than hamburgers.
Does anyone know what rare is anymore?
When I ordered my bespoke burger rare at the Santa Monica  (California) location of The Counter, my waitress asked, "Do you know what rare is?" Odd question, I thought, to be asking a native English speaker fluent in basic menu vocabulary. I nodded yes, missing my...