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| - The butcher shop itself is great. 5 stars. I walked in and there's a case full of pig parts staring back at you (pork belly, hocks, sausages, cheeks, tongue etc) amongst rabbit, lamb, beef and goat. They carry all local and organic meats from various farms around town. Awesome. You buy some meat, bring it home, cook it up and you can taste the quality. The employees are friendly and attentive.
I'm subtracting two stars because of their burger. I'm torn but it wasn't a great burger. The meat itself was awesome. It speaks for itself. But as with majority of restaurants in the area, the food isn't given the star-quality treatment it deserves. The patty wasn't seasoned...it was fairly bland and dry....which sort of had me perplexed because my plate was soaked in burger juice. The fries were great....as well as their ketchup (i mixed it with the sriacha sauce on the table). The problem was with the bun. They were like two hockey pucks.... They weren't stale (but borderline) but it's just the kind of bread that is thick and dense through and through. It's crusty on the outside and thick and dense on the inside. You couldn't even squish it down to get the sandwich into your mouth. I had to eat the patty hanging over the bun and then sort of ate/gnawed away at the rest of the burger. There was a piece of jowl bacon accompanying the burger, but that took awY from the burger...as did the cheese....the bread was so overwhelming that it was frustrating. If the burgers were on the same buns served at Black Dog (soft and squishy), i bet it would be a completely different beast. And with Mirabelle's right across the street, why don't they use them? (Or maybe they do, then i'll have to re-evaluate). I guess my preference is a soft squishy bun as opposed to twodense hockey pucks.... Or i'd even be fine with crusty on the outside and squishy on the inside. But oh well.
As i schlepped my own plates to the bin at the front, the young man asked how my burger was... I shrugged and said that it was ok. He seemed satisfied with that answer.
5 stars for the quality of meat.... But take away two stars for the burger.
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