DBDB and the rise of burgers

The weird initials stand for Daniel Boulud does Burgers. For those not in the know Daniel Boulud is the genius behind uptown restaurant Daniel (where I had the best and second most expensive meal of my entire life). Why would a man with such credentials in fine cuisine stoop as low as to open up a semi industrial bistro that specializes in burgers? Because people eat shit tons of burgers that's why. The American burger has followed a similar path to another American icon the Levi's jean. When Strauss first put rivets in the 501 and made it available to the hardworking farm people of the American west he stooped the blue jean in working class lore. Nowadays however everyone wears jeans, and a pair of 501's goes for around 100 bucks. In the US hamburgers have long been associated with fast food, never a classy venture, but now they've crept into the trendiest of the trendy joints across new york and the world. Take DBDB for example. One of the places three types of burger, "the frenchie" has so many words describing the toppings and seasonings after "6 oz patty," that you should just skip to the part where it says 22$. Fuck, a burger for 22$? that's as crazy as jeans for 100$, or maybe its not crazy at all.

Alan Richmen gives a much better review then I could (probably because he gets a 300$ allowance to eat whatever he wants there and I had to use the money I had just gotten from using the coin thing in commerce bank ) head over to his blog to check it out, links on the right