Posted by Adam Kuban, November 15, 2006 at 4:48 PM
BLUE SMOKE Address: 116 East 27th Street, New York NY 10016 [map] Phone: 212-447-7733 Getting There: 6 Train to 28th Street Short Order: As the Shake Shack's sister burger, Blue Smoke's sandwich has the same coarsely ground, beefy, salty meat mixture. And it turns out, there's quite a bit of flexibility in how you can order it. Want Fries With That?No. Sub in the hush puppies at no extra cost.
Pssst: Want a great lunch for two for around $14 total (before tip) at Blue Smoke? Ask them to split their usual nine-ounce burger into two burgers.
Blue Smoke general manager Mark Maynard-Parisi said the restaurant is happy to make two 4.5-ounce burgers for the same price as the single nine-ounce sandwich on its menu ($11.50, comes with fries; cheese and bacon each $1 extra).
This is good news for people who aren't that into big-ass honkin' burgers. Especially at Blue Smoke, where the otherwise big-ass honkin' burger is especially tasty. Downsizing to two half-size burgers does the trick nicely: You still get a decent amount of meat, and because it's served on an airy brioche bun, the bread component is not as overwhelming as you'd fear -- it can be squished down nicely.
Two of us at AHT went there for lunch recently and got out with a total food bill of $13.50. Not bad for a classy Danny Meyer joint, eh?
Mr. Maynard-Parisi suggests supplementing the burgers with an appetizer or two (the sausage plate caught our eye), but ours was a filling meal without.
We probably shouldn't even be sharing this with you. Who knows how long they'll keep this up once word gets out. :(
Hey Adam...meaning no disrespect...I don't know a lot about the NY Burger scene...and am a newbie to the AHT world, but this came across my radar the other day...and I was just curious...have you ever have burgers from this place??
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BLUE SMOKE
This is good news for people who aren't that into big-ass honkin' burgers. Especially at Blue Smoke, where the otherwise big-ass honkin' burger is especially tasty. Downsizing to two half-size burgers does the trick nicely: You still get a decent amount of meat, and because it's served on an airy brioche bun, the bread component is not as overwhelming as you'd fear -- it can be squished down nicely.
3 Comments:
That is awesome.
Hamburger Yvo at 8:06PM on 11/20/06
Enough is enough already, I need to get to Blue Smoke stat. Thanks for the useful info, we'll see if I can hold back getting the full 9oz.
http://always-eating.blogspot.com/
ginsbera at 5:07PM on 07/16/08
Hey Adam...meaning no disrespect...I don't know a lot about the NY Burger scene...and am a newbie to the AHT world, but this came across my radar the other day...and I was just curious...have you ever have burgers from this place??
http://www.koolbloo.com/contact_info.html
pjacob01 at 3:23PM on 07/23/08