Worst Hamburger I’ve Ever Had in Midtown
In case you missed it, on Friday I was grilled over at A Hamburger Today– giving them my thoughts on the almighty hamburger. Here were my picks for best and worst burgers in Midtown:
“Tough to say. Fast food, thin burger: Five Guys (on 55th btw. 5+6th). Fast food, thicker burger: Burger Joint (on 56th btw. 6+7th). Burger from a Cart: Carnegie John’s (on 56th & 7th). As for the more expensive, sit down burgers, I haven’t had very many. But HB Burger (on 43rd btw. B’way+6th) and Beacon (on 56th btw. 5+6th) are both really good. And the worst burger I’ve ever had in Midtown was at this place called Arome Cafe on 32nd between Broadway and 7th Avenue. Somebody twittered @midtownlunch that their burger was “$5.50 and bangin'”. Against my better judgment (Arome Cafe is one of those terrible generic delis that Midtown is famous for, and Midtown Lunch does its best to fight against) I tried the terrible terrible burger. Bad meat (not unlike what I got in my Jr. High Cafeteria), bad flavor, poorly cooked. Couldn’t even finish it. Damn you, Twitter!”
Check out the worst burger I’ve ever had, after the jump…
I guess it’s not the worst burger I’ve ever had… clearly somebody likes it enough to recommend it to me on twitter. And for the price, it’s a great deal ($6.25 for a really large bacon cheeseburger w/ fries). But the meat was overcooked into this strange gray matter, and after eating half of it I gave up (it was that unappealing.) I suppose if it was halfway decent, these generic delis would put the more expensive places like Goodburger and Burger Joint out of business.
Part of me thinks that there must be a decent one of these cheap deli burgers in Midtown, but there’s another part of me that thinks you get what you pay for. Maybe $6 is too little to pay for a giant burger (w/ fries) that also tastes good. On the other hand Carnegie John’s Cart seems to have no problems putting out a really tasty burger for under $5.
Thoughts? Anybody have a great deli burger recommendation? Put it in the comments. (As long as it’s not “bangin'” we should be ok.)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, August 3rd, 2009 under Burger, Deli.
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Cavonberry’s on 45th between 5th and madison has a great burger. They don’t skimp out on the freshly ground beef and they have pretty tasty fries.
A coworker and i used to walk over from the met life building to go there on a weekly basis and people on our team got jealous every time we had them. Eventually the entire group started ordering them every friday without fail.
I always get them with grilled onions and american (medium). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!