As May is indeed the month of the hamburger, it’s the time of year when a man must ask himself, where do I go for the best burger in town? To me, the Burger Joint in Le Parker Meriden and Corner Bistro in the West Village spring to mind, then off course there’s the surf shop Island Burger in Hell’s Kitchen.
I dare not argue or presuppose what ingredients are required to make the best burger, rather I rely on one simple rule: If it tastes good, it usually is. And the tastiest I’ve had in a while was at The Dram Shop Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, located on 9th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
The bar is elegant and high-minded with a pool table located in back, a shuffleboard on the side, TVs and lights fixed appropriately, so they’re easily found, but not in your way and music that is familiar and new and in a word, cool.
The Dram Shop Bar has a selection of good, not obvious, beers on tap with fine whiskeys and vodkas decorating a bar, whose mirror the mighty Jack Nicholson could possibly deceive himself in. The six unisex bathroom stalls demonstrate a change in the paradigm of modern restrooms, where privacy can be had and the long lines women endure due to bottleneck avoided.
The bar menus are simple and to the point and feature a blurb about how this delightful concoction originated in Dallas and found its way to Brooklyn three generations later by a dude named Clay, presumably the proprietor. Admittedly, I thought this tale rather self-indulgent along side a nine-dollar price tag, but my hunger prevailed.
The Brooklyn version of this beauty consists of two thin patties, slightly charred like good bbq with fixins that are crunchy and full of zest and served in a basket with a healthy portion of hand-cut fries that are crispy and lightly dusted with kosher salt. The first bite is kind of like the first bite you take of an IN-N-OUT Burger in SoCal, where your appetite wells up like a tsunami and crashes down on anything in its path. Oh, and they serve their beer in frosty mugs, too!
I encourage everyone to stop in The Dram Shop Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn (take the F Train to 7th Avenue) for a beer and a taste test and who knows, maybe I’ll challenge you to game of shuffleboard.
I dare not argue or presuppose what ingredients are required to make the best burger, rather I rely on one simple rule: If it tastes good, it usually is. And the tastiest I’ve had in a while was at The Dram Shop Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, located on 9th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
The bar is elegant and high-minded with a pool table located in back, a shuffleboard on the side, TVs and lights fixed appropriately, so they’re easily found, but not in your way and music that is familiar and new and in a word, cool.
The Dram Shop Bar has a selection of good, not obvious, beers on tap with fine whiskeys and vodkas decorating a bar, whose mirror the mighty Jack Nicholson could possibly deceive himself in. The six unisex bathroom stalls demonstrate a change in the paradigm of modern restrooms, where privacy can be had and the long lines women endure due to bottleneck avoided.
The bar menus are simple and to the point and feature a blurb about how this delightful concoction originated in Dallas and found its way to Brooklyn three generations later by a dude named Clay, presumably the proprietor. Admittedly, I thought this tale rather self-indulgent along side a nine-dollar price tag, but my hunger prevailed.
The Brooklyn version of this beauty consists of two thin patties, slightly charred like good bbq with fixins that are crunchy and full of zest and served in a basket with a healthy portion of hand-cut fries that are crispy and lightly dusted with kosher salt. The first bite is kind of like the first bite you take of an IN-N-OUT Burger in SoCal, where your appetite wells up like a tsunami and crashes down on anything in its path. Oh, and they serve their beer in frosty mugs, too!
I encourage everyone to stop in The Dram Shop Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn (take the F Train to 7th Avenue) for a beer and a taste test and who knows, maybe I’ll challenge you to game of shuffleboard.