Belcampo
Fast food restaurant · Chelsea
20 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001
Highlights
Farm-raised meat, burgers, salads, and cocktails
Farm-raised meat, burgers, salads, and cocktails
"This Bay Area transplant is doing the sustainable meat thing and doing it well. As with a number of vendors in Grand Central Market, Belcampo combines retail and restaurant in one. Next to a butcher case full of cuts that are common (New York steaks) and others that are less so (beef heart and tongue), there’s a small counter where you should order a burger. The Fast Burger is the Belcampo take on a Shake Shack/In-N-Out-style burger, and with perfectly seasoned and crispy patties, does a good job of showing those big deal burgers who’s boss." - Jess Basser Sanders
"The New York outpost of California-based farm and butcher Belcampo has permanently closed." - Luke Fortney
"Belcampo’s Hudson Yards location, which opened in March 2019, was heralded as the company’s splashy East Coast debut. The restaurant, which featured only meats raised on its sprawling California ranch, was slammed with hourlong waits immediately after opening, pushing the restaurant to temporarily shutter its takeout counter due to 'unprecedented demand.' But the spot was later deemed a critical miss, with Eater critic Ryan Sutton finding offerings like the 28-day dry-aged burger to be 'thoroughly average' and the charcoal-rubbed ribeye both overcooked and over-salted." - Erika Adams
"Belcampo’s East Coast debut sounded like it could be game-changing entrant into New York’s meat scene. It is not. The restaurant, tucked away in an almost hidden corner of Hudson Yards, is simply where to get an affordable steak or burger in an expensive mall. The dining room piece de resistance is a giant glowing sign above the bar that says “BELCAMPO.” This does not seem like the Belcampo Jonathan Gold once wrote about. The late, great, Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic sang praises of beef heart and goat tartare and “gloriously pink and juicy” roast beef on buttered toast. Other West Coast locations tout slow-cooked lamb with harissa and pork porterhouses. There are no such wonders at the Hudson Yards Belcampo. This is not date food, nor the type of food whose quality would cause a cold-hearted skeptic to adopt a more ethical style of eating. This is shopping food." - Ryan Sutton
"The food was good, fast, and light — I had a salad with kombucha and he had the burger." - Carla Vianna
