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With my $16 voucher in hand, we arrived at Burger Bar on a Wednesday and the place was relatively empty. Mind you we arrived just a little short of 6PM.
We grabbed a seat by the window. The tables are lined with white and red picnic-esque paper then with a sheet of newspaper and finally their "place mat" is their cocktail list. Its always nice to get a visual.
Being the good Yelper that I was, I had already pre-read reviews, and when I arrived at Burger Bar I already knew I wanted to order.
We ordered:
Pineapple Juice
Mint Iced Tea
Market Burger subbed with Wagyu (Kobe) Beef
Saag Poutine
A few minutes after ordering, the server returns. Sorry we're actually out of pineapple juice, and we can't actually sub the burger with kobe beef because it is a pre-made patty mix with chorizo and rice. Novice server. Nothing worse than ordering something, not being told on the spot of its unavailability, it just exacerbates the feeling of disappointment.
The Mint Iced Tea, as mentioned by other fellow Yelpers is not pre-sweetened. I felt like a drug addict in that I started craving the missing sugar in my drink, but resisted temptation at the end. The iced tea itself was quite refreshing and was a great palate cleanser in the end.
The Saag Poutine was quite interesting. Please check all your expectations of poutine at the door. Contrary to the French Canadian style of poutine, the fries are thin-cut which, in my humble opinion are the most flavourful kind. The paneer was rather bland, though texturally it was just the right amount of firmness. The green curry sauce that smothered the fries was quite divine though it made the fries extremely soggy. It was also a bit on the greasy side. The radishes did nothing for the dish, neither from a textural nor flavour perspective. The traditional poutine uses rather heavily salted cheese curds to give it most of its flavour, while I found the Saag Poutine needed that added bit of saltiness that neither the curry nor the paneer delivered. It is an interesting dish to try, but I probably wouldn't order it again.
When the burger came I felt like it had been raped of its fixings... "What a sad looking burger," I said to myself. The bun was cold and actually quite hard - I would've preferred a warm bun. The bun itself was nothing special. The burger came sandwiched with a solo piece of lettuce, arugula pesto, and blue cheese. The patty itself was a beef-chipotle chorizo & toasted rice blend. It was extremely moist and flavourful. But somehow, this burger was all out of its element. For starters, by using a rather bitter arugula instead of the traditional pesto, it led to an unpleasant "am I ingesting some sort of Native Indian herbal medicine, Buckley's face!" kind of taste. The bitterness would've been offset by the blue cheese had they been more generous with the amount of blue cheese in the burger. Texturally it was a "softer" burger in that, other than the sad solo piece of lettuce to add a bit of "crunch" - the burger was in essence, soft. I think some onions would've kicked up the textural component a notch.
At the end of the day, although we weren't treated with snooty behaviour upon presentation of our coupon... our server did scribble in "Please tip on the original amount..." I found this to be tacky and unnecessary at the same time. I was originally going to give Burger Bar 3 stars, but because of this little incident, I have had to reduce it to a 2.5 star.
The bill, had it not been for the $16 voucher would've come to $25. I don't think I will come back again because I didn't get a $10 burger, and its simply outrageous to charge almost the equivalent amount for an order of poutine, give or take a few cents (unless its adorned in jewels or something).
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