Posted by Adam Kuban, July 24, 2008 at 2:45 PM
New York Daily News
OK. She's not really a burger waitress. She'll just be playing one on TV. The New York Daily News has photos of the starlet on location in Long Island City, Queens, shooting a scene for an episode of Ugly Betty. And there's a continuity issue. Check it:
Is it Flushing Burgers or Flushing Burger? The show told the Daily News that the fake restaurant is "Flushing Burgers." Flushing is, of course, the neighborhood in Queens where the fictional ugster lives.
This isn't the first time that burgers have played an incidental role in Ugly Betty. In the episode "Swag," Betty arranges a very important dinner for a very important designer—at White Tassel, a stand in for White Castle. Video, after the jump.
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, July 8, 2008 at 7:30 PM
D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty sports his signature fedora around town, but he'll have to share the look with city newcomer Spike Mendelsohn, the former Top Chef contestant opening Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill this week. According to this video interview with Washingtonian, "Spike," whose real name is Evangelis, doesn't have to buy his hats anymore. Fans just send them as gifts.
Mendelsohn likes his straw fedora most, which he couldn't wear while working at Le Cirque in New York. Following a strict "brigade" dress code, the French kitchen also prohibited Mendelsohn's scruffy beard. But fedoras and facial hair are all good at Good Stuff Eatery, his new fast-casual burgers-and-shakes joint. Other things that are "good," according to a wall hanging here: food, times, people, and stuff.
Mendelsohn thanks buddy Tom Colicchio for his advice: "Go for simple, and don't mess it up." Simple food is also key when the economic dip doesn't favor fine dining, even if that's his "dream somewhere down the line." For now, he has his eponymous "Spike's 5 Napkin," which includes cheese, bacon, a fried egg, Good Stuff sauce, and like all the burgers, farm-fresh beef from Maryland-based Capital Meats.
Next week, the Top Chef gang including Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, and a bunch of Mendelsohn's New York buds, will visit the nation's capital for the burger joint's opening bash.
If given the chance, would you eat at a restaurant opened by a former Top Cheffer?
Posted by Emily Koh, June 23, 2008 at 6:15 PM
The Today show featured 12-year old Joey Yarwick and his gourmet burger, the Au Brie Burger a la Francais, which won the grand prize for Red Robin's The Next Gourmet Burger Kids' Recipe Contest. Cubes of Brie are sandwiched between two sirloin patties, then topped with a generous dollop of potatoes au gratin, all on a croissant. As Joey himself says: "It's a burger like no other and each bite is a trip to France." The kid outshines the burger, though: little Joey manages to disarm Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb with his, er, precocious mock-French accent (I'm not sure if "endearing" is quite the right word for it...). Maybe his cheekiness could help him land him a plum cooking reality show gig in the future. Watch the video after the jump.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, May 14, 2008 at 9:45 AM
As ElCapitan points out in an AHT comment, Bobo's Drive-In, one of my favorite burger joints, went in for the star treatment Monday night on Guy Fieri's Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives or, as it's sometimes known, DDD.
I'd been on the fence about Fieri since I started watching his show. He sometimes seems to condescend a bit to the TV audience and the folks he's profiling. But after watching him in action at Bobo's, I've come around. He really manages to convey the specialness of this old-school Topeka, Kansas, drive-in burger joint. And when he picked up on my favorite quality of Bobo's burgers—the great crisp crust seared into it on the hot flat top griddle—my reservations slipped away. After the jump, peep the vid.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, July 30, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Photograph from theotherway on Flickr
Tonight on CNBC there's going to be a repeat of Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire. I missed it on July 25, but I'm curious to see tonight what the cable news channel has up its sleeve. Airing at 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. ET.
