Renegade Review: JG Melon (New York, NY)
Since 1972, the Upper East Side’s JG Melon (3rd Avenue at 74th Street) has been delighting out-of-town pilgrims and neighborhood faithful alike with what many call the best burger on the isle of Manhattan....
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Review #7: Johnson’s (Siler City)
Joint: Johnson’s Burger: Cheeseburger Burger Category: Classic Rocks Scott’s Review This review is a tale of two photographs. The first is of Michael’s daughter Chloe (right), who famously eats nothing but waffles and bacon....
Review #6: Carolina Brewery (Chapel Hill)
Joint: Carolina Brewery Burger: SW Scorcher (Michael), Brewery Burger (Scott), Build Your Own (John) Burger Category: Look At Me! (Michael), Classic Rocks (John and Scott) John’s Review One nice thing about writing a TSB Burger...
Renegade Review: Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien (New York, NY)
My expectations were high as I entered the spectacular Le Parker Meridien hotel, one of Manhattan’s largest and most exclusive hotels, two blocks from Central Park, one from Carnegie Hall. But I wasn’t there for...
Ask the Burgiatrist
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fixins It DEAR DR. BLUMENTHAL: Please help resolve a longstanding debate between me and my editor (who is a tool). He (aforementioned tool) believes that the word fixins should...
Renegade Review: Shake Shack (New York, NY)
It was a wind-swept rainy day in New York City. I was hungry, and I had time to kill. My brother-in-law and I decided to check out the world-famous Shake Shack—the original one, near...
Review #5: Salem Street Pub (Apex)
Joint: Salem Street Pub Burger: My Wife…(Michael), All American (John), and Island (Scott) Burger Category: Classic Rocks (John), Look At Me! (Michael and Scott) Michael’s Review To this point in my career as a...
The Pen and the Prod: USDA Prime Poetry and Prose
Love at the Gunder Street Pub & Grill By John McManus, licensed burgiatrist He leaned back and pulled open the metal-framed plate-glass door of the Gunder Street Pub & Grill with what felt like...
Renegade Review: In-N-Out Burger (San Francisco, CA)
I have traveled to the west, to the land that we in the holistic burgology community call “California,” where the sun sets over the ocean and you can’t walk ten feet without tripping over...