Category: Reviews

Review #65 – West Park Tavern (Cary, NC)

Please rise for the Honorable Judge and Burgiatrist in Residence Carolyn McLain. Carolyn: We are here today to hear the arguments of Senior Burgiatrist Michael Marino and Burger Evangelist The Reverend Donald Corey. Before...

Review #64 – Mason Jar Tavern (Holly Springs, NC)

We rolled up separately in our suburban dad-mobiles so as to avoid unwanted attention. Our wily prey had taken great pains to conceal itself among the pedestrian surroundings of an infill shopping center, a...

Review #63 – Jimmy V’s Steakhouse (Cary, NC)

[Editor’s Note: Before you read this review, please take time to donate to The V Foundation for Cancer Research. We’ll make it easy for you. Just click here.] Listen, Baby, when Jimmy V was...

Review #62 – Mattie B’s (Durham, NC)

Ready To Enter TSB’s Non-Commitment Contest? Kinda? Perfect! Mattie B’s Public House isn’t ready to commit. Its menu and décor kinda feature a musical theme, kinda not. Its homemade chips kinda come as described,...

Review #61: Capital Club 16 (Raleigh)

Review #61: Capital Club 16 (Raleigh)

Review #61: Capital Club 16 (Raleigh) With guest reviewer Shawn Krest The Straight Beef was fortunate enough to break burgiatric bread with CBS sportswriter and veteran wordsmith Shawn Krest. (More about Shawn below.) That...

Review #59 – T.MAC (Cary, NC)

Review #59 – T.MAC (Cary, NC)

We’re positive people. We say yes to life. We subscribe wholeheartedly to the philosophy that unicorns and rainbows are awesome. And while the total downers of the world get their kicks from being judgy—including...

Review #58: Town Hall Burger and Beer (Durham)

Review #58: Town Hall Burger and Beer (Durham)

In The Straight Beef Podcast #17, the following assertion was set forth: Hamburgers are by definition made of beef and served on a round bun. The controversy that followed was marked by a vitriol...

Review #57 – Zinburger (Durham, NC)

Review #57 – Zinburger (Durham, NC)

The Zen of Zinburger Three Burgiatrists Ponder the Conundrum of a Boutique Burger Chain   As a wine, Zinfandel runs the gamut from cheap, tarty white zinfandel designed to be swilled by mindless twenty-somethings...

Review #56 – Gypsy’s Shiny Diner

Review #56 – Gypsy’s Shiny Diner

THIS JUST IN! The Straight Beef Ties DiMaggio’s Streak of 56 Straight by Old-Timey McSportswriter, Sr. (AP) Time to scram, Joltin’ Joe! There’s a new big cheese in town, and it’s The Straight Beef....