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The Order: Superfine burger, medium rare. With lettuce, onion, tomato. Add pancetta ($1, to add cheese is also $1).
Side Order: Comes with shoestring fries.
$12 + $1 = $13
Drink Order: Saratoga IPA
Burger Menu Rating: 6.5/15
Nestled right in the heart of DUMBO, Superfine is an airy, rustic bar restaurant with an attitude. I say 'with an attitude' instead of 'with attitude' because it's true. It can be unspoken, but every time I've been here, the servers have been somewhat surly. It's interesting, and backwards for such a nice place. The decor is fantastic, almost a throwback to the 50s, and the menu is interesting, or has been, each time I've gone. Sadly, though, the burger is not their strong point.
The menu: usually interesting.
To begin with, the burger is totally uninteresting. Between the superfine grind (see what I did there?) and the meat having been overworked into the patty, there wasn't much left for the burger to offer. It was completely uninteresting, and pedestrian. And really overcooked! Medium rare isn't that hard people! The bun was actually the best part of the burger! Soft, a great airy texture, and sopped up the few juices that came out of the burger. The other ingredients on the burger, however, were lackluster. None of them were really crisp, and the tomato was mealy and tasteless. And the pancetta? Save your money. It didn't add anything to the burger whatsoever.
Shoestring fries? Can we ban them? I hate them. Actually, they were fine, but it's really hard not to make the fries ridiculously crispy when they're so thin.
The service here is slow. Ordering, paying, everything about it is slow. Skip it, or at least skip the burger.
Cooked Correctly: 3/5
Design: 1/4
Plating: 2/3
Value: .5/3
Hey, by the way! I'm going to Minetta Tavern tomorrow. I'm excited. Are you?
