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Another Really Good Burger and Etc.

[Hmm, this post should've went up yesterday. Oh well.]

Well another expensive good burger. So before going into meat of the post I want to explain that I haven’t really been a fan of burgers from since I was a kid. Which combined with the fact I don’t like soda makes me more weird, foreign, or healthy. I’d prefer think healthy. Anyway the reason I’ve probably disliked burgers is because the entire breadth of my experience with burgers have been with fast food. Yes even the the widely praised In-N-Out franchise. AGH! STOP YELLING AT ME I’M WILLING TO GIVE IN-N-OUT ANOTHER CHANCE! I was only a teen back then and a more picky eater than I am now. So that’s my burger backstory. I hope you can somewhat understand where I’m coming from forgive me for being a burger n00b.

Wednesday I had lunch with friends from college at the Wall Street Burger Shoppe. I’ve missed seeing them in person and I’ve wanted to check this burger place out so it was a good opportunity. I initially heard about this place from a post on NYCnosh. The $4 burger seemed pretty cheap especially in that area. But alas they have raised their prices some time ago. The “Shoppe Burger” is now $6 and is the burger I got. According to the menu it’s a “char-grilled beef burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato and Shoppe sauce.”

I kinda expected the burger to be a little bigger. The burger was nice and moist and I didn’t really feel the need to add any ketchup. A similarity that I’ve found with this burger patty and the one from that Antique Cafe is that they taste like steamed ground beef. My reference for steamed ground beef is a homecooked dish my parents have made that’s not dry and does not have fat in it. (Hmm, I should learn how to cook that dish.) So yeah it tasted like that. I’m not sure what else to say but that it was good burger. I’m just not sure it’s worth $6 (that in the picture is all you get, fries and a drink are extra).

Upon heading to work I bumped into my coworkers and we decided to get soup at Brooklyn Bagel (beware: music on site). There wasn’t much selection at the time we were there, an Indian soup and Minestrone (I think). I got the minestrone and you also get a mini bagel; I got a plain.