I revisited Bobby's Burger Palace (BBP) this week, this time with Senor Food. For those of you not up to snuff, BBP is the latest in a long line of restaurants from chef-superstar, Bobby Flay and this time he is focusing on 10 specialty burgers and the things that go with them best- french fries, onion rings, and milkshakes and malteds. It is a combination of table and self- service- you place your own order at the counter on the way in and then you take a number and your burgers are delivered to whichever counter you happen to be sitting at within about 10 minutes. It is self-seating at long communal tables and the decor is an orange 1950's soda shop style. So there is no confusion, this is not one of Bobby's high-end restaurants but the food definitely delivers.I had the "Crunchburger" which consists of a a hamburger with double american cheese and potato chips on the burger. (All burgers can be crunchified with potato chips on top). Senor Food tried the "Dallas Burger" that is spice crusted, with coleslaw, monterey jack cheese, BBQ sauce and pickles. All the burgers are served on a sesame seed bun. We shared an order of french fries and an order of onion rings. We both LOVED our burgers! They were cooked just right, were the perfect size, not too filling, but just enough. The onion rings were thick cut and obviously fried but they were so big there were only about 4 to an order. What I really liked is that sometimes when you bite into an onion ring, the whole onion slides out- not here- somehow it all holds together 'til the last bite. French fries were satisfying, but not over the top. BBP also offers sweet potato fries which we didn't have but they do seem to be a customer favorite and the shakes looked fab (I thought about getting that for dessert)!! In addition to the burgers, they are offering "griddled cheeses" and a couple of salads... AND there is a kid's BBP Burger deal with french fries and a soda.
Every counter has multiple sauces including ketchup, chipotle ketchup, burger sauce, jalapeno sauce and one or two others...be careful you take what you like...I had been to BBP once before and didn't write it up straight away because I had what I refer to as a "bad ketchup experience" which ruined it for me. I can only guess that I must have taken the chipotle ketchup by accident and since I am a tomato-Heinz ketchup kind of girl, it didn't work for me. No problems this time however.
One other thing, I have heard some murmurs about it being an "expensive burger place" but I disagree. Burgers are all $7.50 and the sides are separate, but it is much, much better than the Burger Kings, McDonalds and Wendy's of the world and if you went to any other restaurant and ordered the equivalent it would easily be the same price or more.
If you love burgers, it is definitely worth a visit. Call us, we'll meet you there.
Enjoy!
Foodie
Bobby's Burger Palace
Monmouth Mall
180 Route 35 South
Eatontown, NJ
Phone: 732 544 0200
Website: http://www.bobbysburgerpalace.com/
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Never been!
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