Victor L.
Yelp
"...uck fa..."
What's this distant chanting?
"...uck fat"
Isn't it getting closer?
"DUCK FAT!!!"
Stop chanting because I'M BAAAACK my dear readers!
(Nothing like a fictional hysterical crowd of readers to get me going.)
I was told I was going to have the best burger in Australia. That is a serious claim, and Betty's Burger and Concrete Co comes close, very close.
They actually came closer to this claim to fame than Hillary to walking in the Oval Office at the right time (or should I say wrong time?).
The Betty's Stack respects the International Burger Convention of New York City of 1937 (happened in Area 51 so you never heard of it):
- a home made bun
- a real patty
- tomato lettuce and onion
- creamy cheese with grated mushroom
- no sweet sh*t like pineapple or beetroot
- extras that are savoury, cool sounding stuff, like a deep fried portobello mushroom or bacon
- a real burger sauce
The bun was slightly brioched and just the right size to keep the burger together, just the right density to absorb sauce without breaking down. It is my sense the best feature of that burger.
The sauce has a twang of spiciness, ever so slight and a reminder of the famed Samurai sauce, with the consistency and home made richness of the Mother of all sauces, the Big Mac sauce.
The mushroom and the bacon tie the sauce, the bun and the patty together and are perfect extras. The creamy cheese represents the dark side, its slightly filthy drip an essential feature of a true burger.
The one thing that could propulse that burger to its seat at the round table of Burgers is a thicker patty: the patty is the central piece of a burger, its keystone.
This keystone was of good meat and cooked just right but surrounded by awesome elements, it only came out great.
Read these four star as a 4.9 stars but for burgers there is such things as perfection. And even though this wasn't it, it was very close.