Twin Cities Burgers First Blog

Burgers: the purest form of the American culinary experience.

From fast food to greasy spoons to 5 star restaurants, the burger sits in an uncompromising position on all most all menus.

In my opinion, a burger should be able to stand on its own merit. A burger should have a piece of ground meat, (sorry, no moo no chew, for vegi burgers or other “burgerlike” items I will discuss them at a later date.) the meat should be beef, but if other meat such as pork or perhaps wild game is added all the better. A piece of bread, while a crown top bun is most common, I love to see a slider on a piece of Texas toast or between two English muffins. At this point I am not sure if a piece of meat slapped between a couple pieces of tortilla is acceptable but I will hold judgement until later. Anything else but the bread and beef is just additional fluff.

I am actually a lover of the bacon cheese burger. Honestly I could eat BCB for every meal every day 365! Cheese and bacon! The only two items in this world that can actually make a burger better! What type of cheese? A sharp cheddar is usually my favorite but who knows a mild munster or spicy pepper jack? Anything short of cheese sauce I will accept!

Now I have to admit, I am an elitist when it comes to bacon, while i accept the notion that if it is bacon it has to be good, I find it a shame when bacon is limp and thin! Thick cut bacon whether crispy or barely cooked is a wonderful thing, smoked or dry cured, hickory or maple flavoured it really doesn’t matter as long as it matches the rest of the burger.

Yesterday while having a hot date with my girlfriend I had a burger at MOA Ruby Tuesdays. I went with the Triple Prime Bacon Cheddar Burger. It was actually quite good. It was probably a half pound burger with what they say is garlic mayonnaise on a bun. The cheese was supposedly an aged cheddar but wasn’t very memorable. The bacon was about a medium thickness that wasn’t crispy nor did it have a strong flavor. They actually asked how I wanted it cooked and it came as requested, medium of course! My only complaint was that the exterior wasn’t charred as I prefer it to be, it had sort of a fast food sliminess to it, all in all it was a very good burger. It came with fries that are hard to beat. In a pinch I would recommend Ruby Tuesdays, you know what you are going to get, but for 12 bucks a burger, not sure on the value. Our waiter Josh was as good as they come.

The dinner was quite good but it may have had more to the company that I kept.