A Hamburger Today Disagrees With Itself About Prime Burger
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Today, Serious Eats Grand Poobah Ed Levine jumped onto A Hamburger Today to pen a review love letter to Prime Burger, the full of charm old school Midtown burger spot on 51st btw. Mad+5th. It’s kind of surprising, considering that Nick Solares tore the place apart on the very same website when he reviewed the place back in April. In fairness to Nick though he didn’t follow all of the “ordering rules”.
According to Ed, Prime Burger started pre-cooking their burgers to keep up with the fast food burgers spots in Midtown- so if you want the full experience you have to “specify you want your burger made from scratch, and that you’re willing to wait the extra few minutes.” He also says to ask the broiler man to salt the burger before cookingit. Do all this, and according to Ed you’ll end up with “a juicy burger that tastes a lot like a Shake Shack burger.”
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Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:00 am, October 15th, 2009 under Prime Burger.
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because I’ve had to answer this question before, D.
See the comments under http://midtownlunch.com/2009/07/31/midtown-links-the-why-are-we-here-again-edition/
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@RudyMcBagel: I’ve had the Prime Burger and was not impressed. I wanted to like it just for that amazing interior, but the couple times I’ve had it, it was fairly flavorless and a bit gristly. I completely agree with everyone here who says you shouldn’t have to be on their ass about proper cooking. And Ender is spot on: why chase fast food to the bottom of the pit? If they did a great non-fast-food old-school burger and worried about upping their game that way, that’s the way to go. Also: Agreed. That thing is a bit too rare for my tastes.
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I’m also sure that Adam Kuban (author of the comment just before mine) is all too aware of DocChuck, and quite glad DocChuck no longer infests the Serious Eats family of websites, including Adam’s AHT and SliceNY
How do you know all of this Fred?