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| - I keep hoping, I keep trying but I have yet to find a "gourmet" burger joint or upscale burger that I can even like much less love.
My girlfriend and I ordered a small plate of chicken wings. Better cooked than this, impossible, they were perfect. The BBQ sauce... bring me more. And I don't know if its store bought or made on site, but that ranch sauce was insanely good. I figured, if the burger is half as good as this, we're in for some seriously good eats.
We were wrong, we were sooooo wrong...
La Belle et La Boeuf doesn't break this losing streak. Just another hipster pleasing joint with very sub-par food.
On paper it looks like it's gonna blow you away right? Well that's where the ever important balance between form and function come into play. In this case it's all form and very little function.
You can change your side of fries for a poutine, little did I know they would bring me a bucket of poutine. The poutine was cold. I don't know about you but poutine gravy should be volcanic and melt the fries (that wasn't a mistake, I meant fries). I asked to get a hot poutine and they simple nuked it and it was lukewarm at best. This on fries that were merely passable and not-melted cheese. But the gravy is the only thing that gave the fries a fighting chance.
But the insult of it all was the burger... really, shame on whoever thinks these burgers are good. The bun was OK, the toppings were well, meh. OK I took "Le Cochon". That's a patty wrapped in bacon... Look I love bacon more than the next guy but there is such a thing as too much bacon. There is such a thing as proper portions. Topped with peanut butter (blech! but that's on me) and with Port jelly which I could never taste in the burger and Port jelly usually is pretty noticeable, it's got a strong kick to whatever you put it on. The meat was overcooked, dry... I mean really dry and 8oz might be overkill. I make way better burgers that this, I mean massively better and that's using regular store bought meats, cheap POM burger buns and regular yellow cheese. A complete disappointment.
There was also a Kool-Aid marinated pickle which they claim is their idea - actually it's Joe's White Front Cafe in Rosedale, MS that gets those claims - La Belle et La Boeuf only watched Feasting on Asphalt on Food Network. Plus the coleslaw hash was OK.
The decor is Hipster paraphernalia all over the place. But still a nice decor. The service is good, unfortunately the food blows chunks. It gets a generous 2 outta 5 and only because those wings rocked.
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