We eat in order to stuff our feelings. So say the therapists. We felt like stuffing our feelings last night after having our flight out of LaGuardia cancelled yesterday morning, and having to settle for a flight out Tuesday evening (with an overnight sleep in the Atlanta airport!). One of us will be on an early flight and the other on a later flight to Oklahoma City. Time is tight, and the clock is running. Krap!So we decided we could not cook and we should try the newly opened Five Guys which is near Home Depot, in that new strip that has the mattress store, a martial arts academy, GNC, and Panera. There is clearly a business plan at work here: keep it simple, with a limited menu of burgers and fries. The decor is basically white bathroom tile. Budget. The plan also calls for two teenage girls at the front taking orders--very suburbia--and several young preppy white guys (and one preppy black guy) at the grill--very Long Island. The secret is to always start with a good cut of meat, and I will say that their hamburger meat looked nice and fresh and pink. There was a door open to a side room where the meat was rolled into balls and put on trays, and all I could think of was that Chris Rock movie with the drug lab, I cannot recall the name. Piled high in the front were bags of potatoes marked Special: Five Guys. That is a neat touch. I have to say the burger was just a little more than OK; the (Cajun-style) fries were almost a hit with me. But mostly it was blah-shrug. (I was reminded of a burger place that used to be on E91 St and Madison that used to put a cup over the burgers...what was that place?) Maybe Five Guys will do well with afterschool crowd once the new school on Metropolitan opens up, but we will probably let this one go by. For burgers, everyone has a recomendation or two. Mine is this place on Spring St.
Speaking of stuffing one's feelings, one of our local squirrels made a big catch a few weeks ago--a giant piece of bread almost a big as he is! Here is a pic of the happy critter.
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I went to Five Guys in Manhattan and remember the atmosphere being kinda crappy, it was a real dive, but I totally enjoyed the burger and fries. I'll have to give that a try now that I know it's open. But not tonight, tonight is French Toast with farm-fresh eggs and fresh challah bread!!
There's a Five Guys around me on 5th Ave off 86th St. Our grill guys are Latino. The cashier was a girl once and a guy another. I introduced my uncle to Five Guys when he came by my mom's for lunch one day and now he's all excited that the one has opened out in Queens. I like it well enough, but probably nowhere near as much as that squirrel was enjoying his windfall!
Oh, now I remember--it was Jackson Hole Hamburger. Good ones, cooked under an inverted cup.back in 1980 or so.
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