Up in Cape Cod this weekend, I was reminded of a burger memory that went without documentation. The Minetta Tavern Black Label burger. This burger has certainly been all over the blogosphere, mostly due to its La Frieda “Black Label” beef mix, that is supposedly available nowhere else on the planet.
All of that doesn’t really matter to me, the burger was just tremendous.
I feel like it is actually unfair that this burger be included on this site, since I would say that it’s more like a steak on a bun than like any burger I’ve had before. It’s got this intense mouth feel that feels more like a bite of a perfect grass-fed sirloin than a ground beef burger. It’s beefy, it’s gamey, it’s sweet from the caramelized onions, it’s fatty from the beef and the clarified butter that’s on the burger. It’s like the X-men of hamburgers.
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