Staff Blog
EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: The Slate Stuffed Burger
posted by Drew Lazor
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| Photos | Drew Lazor |
Chef Matthew Hartnett, who’s been cooking at Slate (102 S. 21st St.) since this past December, has a foreal-foreal best-burger candidate on his hands with this unapologetically delicious beast, which we tried for the first time on Friday night. Slate’s signature burger, at $14, is a hair more expensive than your average bar snack, but it’s so very worth it here: Hartnett stuffs his burger patties with a mixture of tender short rib and mushrooms, which creates some savory textural trickery upon first bite. (Imagine eating a silky soft-serve cone and finding a bunch of Twizzlers tucked into the ice cream. OK, now imagine a beef-fat-laden version of that.) Finish it off with a heap of melted bleu and a side of truffled fries and you’ve got a serious contender.
What’s most appealing about the burger, flavor bombasticity aside, is that it’s really easy to eat — there’s no seared foie or heirloom tomato or frisee or pickled rhubarb shotgun-spraying in every direction every time you sink your teeth in. It’s interesting enough to stand out from the bunned pack, but traditional enough to grub on without feeling like you should be wearing dry-clean-only slacks.
Eat this immediately.
that’s the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen.
I, too, recently ate at Slate and had the MOST delicious fried chickpeas. Eat those immediately Philadelphia!
this looks most delicious, i’m getting a food boner.