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Sounds good to me.

I’m going to Manny’s the day after tomorrow. Never been before. What should I order?

Isn’t there a recession on?

That said, I will look forward to lobster foie gras Jucy Lucy.

It will never replace the Rice Street Gangster Burger.

BTW, I stopped at the new gay bar in The Rat’s hood. $5.25 for a ordinary rum & Coke isn’t exactly highway robbery, but with most other NE Mpls bars offering early Happy Hours, they may want to reconsider.

@kurtis

The steak.

bob, was it super strong like a good gay bar drink was supposed to be?

Maybe they have two tier pricing did you show them your copy of the gay agenda?

Q: Did you hear the one about Burger Jones?
A: He got so high they had to take him home.

@ Kurtis…who’s paying?

if it’s you, go with a beer, a caesar salad and baseball steak.

if it’s somebody else, get a heart of palm or caesar salad, side of bacon, side of mushrooms side of hash browns with onions. A reasonably priced bottle of Napa Cab (reasonable by manny’s standards starts around $80) and the Beef Bludgeon(36 oz ribeye on a stick) or split the double-cut porterhouse with a loved one (something like 48oz) Also,

Already looking forward to our annual Fathers’ Day Manny’s blowout.

I usually order Martinis in gay bars, because they usually make them right –so few bars do.

I was in a hurry, so I just had one and run. It was nothing to turn gay over.

Terri Rock at the Knightcap pours a house Cuba Libre that rocks your world at half the price.

bob…did you say Gay Bar?

Just what we need, another establishment serving embellished and overpriced items that are better left inexpensive and more traditional.

We have a struggling market for any and all restaurants and someone seriously is going to come in and expect to thrive selling designer hamburgers at a price point that doesn’t deserve the “hamburger” name?

This reminds me of The Original Soup Man in Minneapolis (which doesn’t exactly seem to be pulling them in while its nearby and inexpensive competitors continue to do so). Do people really want to come back again and again for overpriced food that they’re happier eating for $1 at McDonald’s or $2 to $5 at any number of other excellent burger establishments statewide?

Dear South of the River Foodblogger,

some of us yuppies like to pay more for quality ingredients at fancy locations.

Sincerely,

a guy who knows what’s in McDonalds hamburgers.

I’ll still with the $11 loaded burger at The Strip Club.

When we were dating, cjc sent me in to the Monte Carlo with a $20 to pick up our two orders of hamburger and fries (with onions, cheese, and mushrooms.) I came out with the food, and his $20. It wasn’t enough and I had to put it on a card.

But those hamburgers are freakin’ good. So it was worth it.

We will easily pay $10 for a hamburger that tastes good and is made out of good meat, especially if it is ground on site. We like our burgers rare and you have to pay good money to get a safe to eat, good rare burger.

stick*

My wife is paying, G Rote. Or maybe my dad, if his birthday check gets here in time. I’m thinking the medallions, but it may be a game day decision.

< will eat no hamburgers till they re-open the nugget in glen lake...bastards!

I am a fan of all the restaurants in their parasole family that I’ve tried. Love Mufallettas, PB, CL, and GE. I’m not in the Calhoun area much, but I’ll drop in for a good burger when I am, presuming my own finances haven’t caught up with the recession.

could be a tough sell…those pomme frites at barbette are damn tasty even if they aren’t freedom fries.

i shy away from tenderloin cuts…too lean!

totally with Ryan L. on the GOLD NUGGET (RIP). that humble little ramshackle restaurant served one of the consistently best hamburgers anywhere. Apparently there might be good news on the horizon for Gold Nugget fans.

i shy away from tenderloin cuts…too lean!

You give well-marbled girls like myself hope.

well marbled & wet aged. my kind of gal.

Vincent burger.

G rote if your a facebooker you might join us over at the group “I heart the gold nugget”

Oh! I thought that was a fetish group!

well marbled & wet aged. my kind of gal.

Wet aged? I think you wanted to post this under the necrophiliac post.

funny…that’s just what I thought when Kurtis upthread said:

My wife is paying, G Rote.

I may be cold and heartless Dougnuts, but I ain’t dead.

It is max we focus exclusively on hot greasy meat preferably with bacon!

hot greasy meat preferably with bacon

Are we still talking about mb21?

tee hee… stop flirting with me!

Speaking of culinary magnificence, do you all think bacon ice cream would be good… or is it flying too close to the sun?

funny…that’s just what I thought when Kurtis upthread said: My wife is paying, G Rote.

Context! Comma! Argh!

Agreed with g_rote on the Hearts of Palm Salad, but as much as I enjoy the Bludgeon of Beef, I’d probably go with the NY Strip. You can share the Bludgeon, though, if that’s your thing

Get the Oysters Rockefeller, too.

BTW, the Double cut Porterhouse checks in at a massive 72oz., not a puny 48. There was a time in my life where I would have tried to take that down, but no more.

If you like Prime Rib, that’s good too, but not later in the evening. Last time I was there, the only Prime they had left was medium. Ish.

rule of thumb…if you still have your own teeth, prime rib is not for you.

Terri Rock at the Knightcap pours a house Cuba Libre that rocks your world at half the price.

I learned in a rather unpleasant exchange with a bartender at the Town House that Minnesota’s defintion of “Cuba Libre” is different from Puerto Rico’s. So I hope you got more than just a plain ol’ rum and coke. I’ve stopped even asking for a Cuba Libre by name unless the bar has it on their menu.

I’d pay money for a quality, fancy burger. Except since my gf doesn’t eat beef, the chances of my making to Burger Jones in the first place seem pretty slim.

@garcia: You get what you pay for. I’m sure that $1 McD burger you’d enjoy isn’t a 1/2-pounder, with bacon, cheese, etc. Yes, a McD double 1/4-pounder is priced cheaper than the 1/2-pounder bacon burger I enjoyed earlier this week at Sweeney’s but the quality between the two cannot be compared … and I got twice the volume of fries — and a pickle! — with my burger at Sweeney’s than I otherwise would have by super-sizing a McD order.

So, there.

That some of you think garcia would actually like a McDonald’s hamburger is nothing short of hilarious.

Hamburgers are grunt food. $7.95 is a ripoff. Go to McDonald’s

Here we go again…

I’ve tried to get Rat to define “grunt food” and he has carefully eluded my
questions.

I need to know if grunt food is good or bad?

It’s good if you’re hungry and you need to get some groceries down your neck.

Anyone who thinks a McDonalds hamburger is the same burger you get at a place like Bulldog has either not eaten at both places or is the gustatorial equivalent of tone deaf.

I would like to know what DOESN’T constitute grunt food?

The better the food, the more I grunt when I eat it.

Haven’t eaten at the Bulldog. I go to Whitey’s across the street. But I think the McDonald’s quarter pounder with cheese is superior in general because it’s consistent, not sloppy and difficult to eat like most of the pretentious hamburgers at joints like the one that’s going to open up, and inexpensive. 

Because the most important thing when eating out is NOT taste, texture, smell, healthiness, ingredients, condiments, or extras but consistency and convenience and perhaps a bit on price.

Rat’s burger motto: if it’s easy to eat, who cares if it’s meat?

not sloppy and difficult to eat

All the better for dashboard dining. I recommend always eating your fries first; they get cold fast.

if it’s easy to eat, who cares if it’s meat?

That’s what she said.