Mother Burger

Manhattan, NY
motherburger.com



The Order: Uncle Matt's Wing Burger, medium rare. Basted in spicy wing sauce and topped with creamy bleu cheese
Side Order: Deluxe it with fries ($3)
Movie Theater Nachos to start ($3.95), corn tortilla chips with pepper jack cheese sauce, mother's 3 bean chili and sour cream
$6.95 + $3 + $3.95 = $13.90
Drink Order: PBR ($2!)



I found a $15 Groupon for Mother Burger (I'd pay $7 for $15 worth of food), so I figured I'd check it out. My friend Jared has been expressing interest in a burger outing for some time and we were finally able to link up. Now, Mother Burger is somewhat hidden. It is located in World Wide Plaza, which is between 49th st and 50th st. If coming from 49th st, you have to walk around a building to see that Mother Burger is actually there. Once inside, this place is tiny. It can seat maybe 25 or 30 people, but at 5:30p on a Friday, it is packed.

The burger was very tasty. It was cooked just a touch over medium rare, but not enough to make it bad. The wing sauce was at times very present, and other times just complimented the flavor of the burger. The flavor of the sauce itself was great but it definitely wasn't as spicy as I would have liked, and would have expected. Something about the name Uncle Matt's Wing Burger makes me think of a small town man trying to make big city men cry. Alas, it was not true. But you really can't go wrong with wing sauce and bleu cheese. It not being that spicy meant being able to devour this burger fairly quickly.

The fries were completely not worth it. A little hard, not seasoned at all, really, and definitely not worth $3.00. That is just ridiculous for the measly amount of fries you get. The Chipotle Russian sauce that they are served with was good, but really not as good as it should have been. Both Chipotle and Russian dressing have such strong and distinct flavors that if the two were mixed they would have a different, equally strong, flavor, right? Wrong. No matter how much of that sauce I put onto each fry, it was the same bland taste. Ketchup is the way to go here.

The nachos? Between Jared and I, they were gone very quickly. You get a surprising amount of nachos, cheese and sauce crammed onto a small plate. There really isn't anything bad I can say about them. The cheese was melty, there weren't too many beans in the chili, and the sour cream was mixed in, as opposed to just being dolloped on the top. Get these instead of their weakling fries.

All in all this place is decent, especially for the price (ignore the fries). $6.95 for a good burger, and $2 beers? That's tough to beat. Come here for after work burgers and beer.