Danyelle 'Restaurant Girl' Freeman on the Best Sliders in the City

Posted by Adam Kuban, June 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM

Shopsin's sliders are as good or better than many on Danyelle Freeman's list.

Danyelle "Restaurant Girl" Freeman comes correct with her list of the best sliders in the city.

Rare Bar & Grill
The Stanton Social
Wall Street Burger Shoppe
David Burke at Bloomindales
Little Owl
Blue Water Grill
Swifty’s
Stand

Sliders are pretty much my favorite form of burger, so it's always great to read someone else's list. I like her choices of Burke Box, Rare, and Stand, but I'm not sure if the Little Owl is a slider slider. It's a meatball on a bun, not a burger. I'm also not that keen on Stanton Social's Kobe sliders, as they suffer from all the faults that Kobe burgers do. Meh.

The Blue Water Grill's mini lobster roll is not a slider in the least, and Swifty's, though it sounds intriguing, doesn't even place its patties on buns, so they don't even qualify as sandwiches, much less sliders.

Two obvious omissions are the sliders at Shopsin's and the O.G., the Original Gutbomb, the little lovlies at White Castle. [via Serious Eats New York]

9 Comments

Tags: bloggers, Danyelle Freeman, Listburg, sliders, tiny hamburgers

9 Comments:

Lobster? Meat without buns?

That's weird, and wrong. You can't just go around calling everything sliders.

FastFoodCritic at 5:36PM on 06/16/08

@FFC: Agreed. But I think the non-burger world takes liberties with such things, unfortunately. I'm sure what Ms. Freeman has rounded up is good, but they're not sliders in the true sense.

Adam Kuban at 6:07PM on 06/16/08

IMHO, the best sliders are NOT from nyc...think New Jersey, any place with the "white" prefix and minus the "castle" suffix...

edroogie at 10:04AM on 06/17/08

"as they suffer from all the faults that Kobe burgers do. Meh."

What is that which they suffer? I have never had a kobe burger.

Just wondering.

SpandTex Pants at 10:14AM on 06/17/08

The network of fat marbling in Kobe is what makes it so great. Once you grind it, you've effectively minced up that network, making the Kobe essentially indistinguishable from a burger high in fat content. Not necessarily a fault there, I guess. But what I really don't like is that the extreme tenderness of the Kobe/Wagyu beef often leads to an unpleasant mushy texture, especially when they're cooked medium-rare, as many burger chefs insist on when they put these on their menus.

Adam Kuban at 11:13AM on 06/17/08

The term "slider" has officially reached the overuse/misuse level of "martini" circa 1996.

worldcupfever at 12:28PM on 06/17/08

Yea, I remember my First "Slidini"
Liquid beef fat, Vodka and Vermouth just don't go together! (with or without the onion!)

I believe that "Girl" list of Sliders is Just that...
A list about girl food, not about burgers!

I think some of those "So-called Sliders" are Proof the Apocalypse is near!

phauxtoe at 1:08PM on 06/17/08

There was a mention during the Cubs-Rays game last night of "BBQ rib sliders". I threw my ashtray at my TV.

worldcupfever at 12:12PM on 06/18/08

Okay, a local restaurant has listed in its weekend specials "coconut shrimp sliders". I'm getting mad.

worldcupfever at 3:36PM on 06/20/08

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