Hundred Dollar Burger
April 15th, 2006 | Published in food and music | 12 Comments
Would you? Why, yes, I would, knowing this might work out cheaper than buying wagyu beef on its own (which I won’t bear to cook since I’m so awful):
180g wagyu beef patty with a piece of seared foie gras embedded inside, truffle cream sauce and salad greens tossed in champagne dressing.
Uberburger, sister restaurant of Corduroy and Finch, raises the bar to the market for burgers ââ¬â what can I say, other than “keep them coming”? Other than that ubergourmet item, the rest are fairly down to earth and I will try to check it out before I leave.
I keep telling people when I return from my trip I’ll be so poor that I’ll be “eating bread everyday”. Let’s hope that this is the kind of bread I was talking about.
The restaurant scene has been heating up in spurts, of late. Naturally the first place to turn to would be Chubby Hubby’s ââ¬â if not for the food writing, then there’s the food porn.
Voice in my head: $100 is 2800 rupees. 2800 rupees for a burger.
Uberburger
#01-06/10 Millenia Walk, 9 Raffles Boulevard, Tel: 6837-0280.
It is open from 10.30am to midnight from Sundays to Thursdays and 10.30am to 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.
April 15th, 2006 at 6:13 am (#)
If you ultimately decide to go to Nepal, that will be Rs. 4800… heh.
On another note, your posts on travel make for great reading. Having studied there myself, there’s always a feeling of “been there, done that” (in a nostalgic way, ofcourse) while reading in your posts about India, and especially Darjeeling.
To open your window each morning and see the Kanchenjunga range bathed in sunshine… that was something.
Anyway, great blog.
April 15th, 2006 at 6:23 am (#)
sorry.. 4480
April 15th, 2006 at 8:10 am (#)
and i thought DB Bistro Moderne’s burger was the most expensive i’d ever eat! (US$26, i suppose about forty dollars.) admittedly, it isn’t kobe, and anyone who calls food ‘better than sex’… needs better sex. but doesn’t “an exterior of ground sirloin with a filling of boned short ribs braised in red wine, foie gras, black truffle and a mirepoix of root vegetables. The homemade bun is topped with toasted parmesan and layered with fresh horseradish mayonnaise, tomato confit, fresh tomato and frisée served with pommes souffles” (according to the menu, not that i actually
rememberedit all) sound good enough? :)anyway, have been lurking on your blog for ages. love your travels, so so so exotic! i totally admire your spirit of adventure.
April 15th, 2006 at 12:46 pm (#)
hundred and one dollars, if i remember the newspaper article correctly.
April 15th, 2006 at 1:28 pm (#)
One dollar will probably get you an extra sesame seed on the bun.
If I am broke, I will eat teochew porridge with salted vege and peanuts everyday. Sure beats `eating bread everyday’!
April 16th, 2006 at 2:30 am (#)
does uberburger serve burgers the average mortal can afford? (like, say, if those mortals were to mortgage/flog their Macs and iPods?)
April 16th, 2006 at 2:51 pm (#)
Hi Adrianna. Thanks for the mention. I’ve just recently been to Uberburger but did not have the uberexpensive wagyu burger. I tried the pork and beef one–the cheapest one there at S$14. What sucks is that for S$14, you get some salad but NO FRIES! What’s up with that? They make you pay extra for a side of fries, which to me is standard burger accompaniment. The burger was pretty good. Not better than the burgers at Whitebate & Kale, Marmalade Pantry or Seah Street Deli. The shakes are excellent. What amused me is that they have a S$30-something burger on the menu called a “wagyu-style” burger. When I asked a friend connected to the restaurant about it, she admitted it meant “not wagyu.” So, it’s a Faux-wagyu burger. I don’t think I’d ever shell out the hundred bucks for the top of the line burger. I think only idiot bankers wanting to impress someone would do that. A good burger is a good burger. It doesn’t need to be dressed up and made fancy. Lastly, what really annoyed me was that throughout my meal, the staff were playing Christina Aguilera’s Dirty concert on the overhanging plasma screens and were blasting the corresponding soundtrack. As one friend expressed, “the last thing I wanna see when chomping down on my burger is Christina’s crotch.”
April 16th, 2006 at 3:12 pm (#)
Perhaps P. needs more time to figure it out; while I haven’t tried it, designer-burger does not go very well with “bad location” or a concept that’s more complicated than “burger” is supposed to be.
I quite like the beef patty burger with some foie gras at the Lazy Gourmet, though I think my fave burger experience has to be sitting along an old-school burger joint by the side of a road at 2am, with an amazingly sinful burger with onion rings and a shake, at Mike’s Original Burgers (Chaiyaphum Road, Chiang Mai). Just 80 baht!
April 16th, 2006 at 5:31 pm (#)
HI !
If i were you i would concentrate on Tandoori chicken and parathas with spicy chicken curry in the streets of udaipur. or probably MOMOs in Darjeeling or Karseong (spelling mistake) or the fish curry rice of Goa.
Burgers can wait…….
April 16th, 2006 at 7:42 pm (#)
Haha Adri I was laughing quite a bit when I read about Uberburger in the papers. $101 really, sounds a little like the price of the omelettes at Lawry’s ;D
April 16th, 2006 at 9:28 pm (#)
hehe they’ve got one in london too! looks a whole lot bigger and costs a whole lot more. but i can imagine sinking my teeth into that sourdough decker! just one bite… ohh….*orgasmic shudder*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4894952.stm
April 20th, 2006 at 12:57 am (#)
That’s funny. I was just at Mike’s in Chiang Mai last month. What a wacky place. Had a burger, fries and a coke in the pouring rain. Was totally surreal.