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| - I want my GBC. I love burgers. I really do. I will search out almost high and low for them and in my recent travels I came across the Gourmet Burger Company. And what a find.
Gourmet burgers not priced out of this world, yet such succulent, juicy patties and mouth watering combinations. I could not imagine a better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than grazing on one of the GBC's burgers.
My first foray to the GBC took me to the Mushroom Melt: the 100% GBC beef patty, lettuce, tomato, portobello and sauteed mushrooms with Brie cheese. Mmmmm. I held on the mayonnaise; I wanted nothing to interfere with the taste and texture of the Brie cheese.
The fries, tasted fresh; they were cut that very AM. Much more delicious than most fast food chains, and much better than NYF. These fries were cooked to perfection - I don't know if they were baked or cooked or deep fried - but they were not oily or heavy as some other french fries I have had. The GBC sauce is a nice twist on most sauces. Going forward, I will always take my fries with ketchup (I see french fries as a ketchup-delivery vehicle more than anything else), but the GBC sauce was a nice change of pace: tangy and sweet at the same time.
The burger itself is quite filling, so if you can, share the fries with someone else, for no other reason than to have the ice cream sandwich, one of my weaknesses. I swear, the ad for it looks so tantalizing that I almost ordered the ice cream sandwich instead of the burger. For $3.25 you get two delicious cookies filled with premium ice cream. I had vanilla, and I could taste how different it was from most store-bought ice creams. The cookies were good, and while my preference is for softer cookies, I found out that softer ones usually crumble and leave you with an ice cream mess.
The proprietor, Raffi, is what all good ol' fashioned burger chains should have: someone to walk you through the different options and regale you with tales of burgers, local politics and entrepreneurship.
As Ahnold once said "I'll be back".
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