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| - Bobby Flay was never my favorite celebri-chef, though I always respected how good a loser he was on Throwdown and the not-good Iron Chef (aka Iron Chef America). You may laugh, but on Throwdown he was not only going up against people who were the best at what they do, he was always playing "away games" on THEIR turf - he had his work cut out for him and did a respectable job considering, and was never a sore loser or a dick to people. That said, I never liked him as much as Gordon Ramsay, who made his name out of being a dick to people.
But Gordon spoiled my illusion of his mad chef cred with his shite burger joint at the PH. Despite being a fast casual rather than a gourmet sit-down restaurant, Bobby's place blows BURGR out of the water. After the fiasco that was BURGR we almost didn't come here, but I'm glad we took the chance as it was right outside our hotel (the venerable Mandarin Oriental -- racist name, plush hotel).
The LA burger was decent - it was no Lucky Devil's American Kobe burger with crack sauce and crack bun, but it blew away the Gordon Burg(e)r o' Shame, and was cheaper to boot. It was a bit messy because it did not skimp on avocado. I ordered it rare and it was actually served rare! (This should not be that hard to find but sadly most places can't cook a rare burger, even if they say that they do. I'm not going to sue you, so unclench. Srsly.) They even offered to cut the burger in half for us to share, and gave us the potato chips on the side.
Cons: the burger was a bit on the small side, the bun was kind of McDonald-y, and the tomato was the sad pale bullet-proof kind.
I wasn't a fan of any of the sauces, but it didn't matter because neither the burger nor the fries needed it. The regular fries were surprisingly good, and I was pleasantly surprised that the sweet potato fries were not "enhanced" with extra sweetener like powdered sugar.
The dark chocolate milk shake was surprisingly not too sweet. The whipped cream was fresh, though a tad too sweet, but was perhaps a good balance with the dark chocolate, less sweet than regular chocolate by nature.
3.5 stars for food (A-OK+), 5 stars for service.
It was weird that you could only see partially into the kitchen - I spent the whole time watching a bunch of burly chests go back and forth... Not that this was necessarily a bad thing, mind you! One of the chefs complimented my husband's Unabomber beard - of course this from a man with his very own spectacular mountain man face muff.
I feel like the logo may purposely evoke the classic Burger Time video game. I also feel it maybe should have just been called Bobby's Burgers and had pun-ny names for the different burgers like the cartoon -- "The Bobby Flayed Alive Burger: comes with pork cracklins." :D
I didn't see any of the problems with service or cleanliness other Yelpers mentioned. Surprisingly no tip line on the check, even though there was partial table service (just not full service). Too bad, I was so impressed I wanted to tip them 50%, especially after the horrible service at the full service BURGR.
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