Forking Tasty

Stand for Something

I don’t have much to say today. I think this pic of last nights dinner says it all. I like stand. I go there a lot. When I read the menu I noticed this burger was NEW. Somehow in the description I missed the TWO pattie part.

BOLD BURGER: brioche, two 7oz, beef patties, applewood smoked bacon, sauteed onions, american and cheddar, pickle, tomato, chipotle sauce, fried egg. Now tell be that isn’t a Huckleberry?!

Stand
88 University Place
New York, NY 10003-4566
(212) 488-5900
www.standburger.com

When Everything is Closed, Grab a Burger

Burger Fuel, Auckland NZ from Anthony Anello on Vimeo.

Apparently on Sunday’s Auckland New Zealand shuts down. I walked around the city for a while and everything was closed. I went to go and check out a couple different places to grab lunch and they were closed. However, on my travels I passed by a Burger Fuel. This is a local fast food chain in New Zealand. I had to try it out. Without hesitation I ordered 2 burgers. These were not your average burgers. Burger one is called the Burger fuel (I figured I should get the burger named after the joint) 1/3 pound ground beef, free range egg, beetroot, salad, relish, aioli. Burger two was on the special list and in the family tradition; you have to try the special. Burger two is called the Santa Boars. Char-grilled strips of wild boar, Crispy pork crackling, whole cranberry sauce, apple puree, fresh handmade salad, sweet potato relish and natural aioli. Lets see the video for the results…

My Latest Fast Food Burger

It’s been a while since I had a fast food burger. I can’t even remember the last one I ate. In Hong Kong I only had a couple hours to go out and see the city before I had to be back on the ship. With not much knowledge of Hong Kong I ventured into the city to wonder around. Being in a huge city with multicultures made me feel like I was at home in New York with a Chinese spin to it. I was impressed with the city but like I said I only have a couple hours.

8oz Burger Bar(gain)

So if my last LA post was the LA I love to mock, this is the LA I love to miss. I was in Hollywood refusing to valet my car on my way to meet my friend Marc and Jonell for some dinner. Both NY transplants, I had no doubt that the place Mark suggested would have a touch of east coast to its vibe and certainly not have that pretentiousness I experienced the other night.

Mark is a casting director and Jonell is a writer. That explains why they both live in LA but ironically, when I sent out a note letting them both know I would be in town, both responded that they weren’t.

All of us flew in that day or the day before but we still got it together to meet. We met at…

In ‘N Out of My Mind

This is probably the most real time post I have done to date. I just landed in San Jose California. I was hungry. I went straight to In ‘N Out and wacked down this Double-Double, Fries and a Coke. Yes a coke! I don’t even drink that stuff. Super indulgence. Since I am still on NY time it’s almost 2am and I am tired. So, I just put a full fast food meal in me and now I am going to sleep. Bit it was goooooood. mmmmm. zzzzzzz.

Max – Sweden

Max – Sweden from Anthony Anello on Vimeo.

I have been to Stockholm Sweden a bunch of time and some of my friends raved about this local burger joint called Max. Now I am a huge burger fan. A good burger is definitely in my top 3 meals to eat. Some say I am a burger cynosure because I eat so many. Check out this video and you’ll see what I thought about the Max burger…

Organic Burger

I recently saw a movie called Food Inc. It’s about what we know about the food we buy in our supermarkets and serve to our families. It is really eye opening.

Bromance Burger

Last night my buddies, Ross and Urbanos, met me at the Black Iron Burger Shop in the East Village. Ross, Matt and I decided to do a guy night, grab some burgers and catch up on all things work, play and potential.

Ant’s last supper

Ant heads back to the ship tomorrow so before he left we had one more throwdown. Ant has this crazy attachment to Burgers. In honor of that, we headed up to Big Nick’’s for some classic greasy spooness. On the roster was Josh, Serena, Sarah, Athena, Seth and a fairly pregnant Tracy. As usual we went over board with the order getting ourselves in deeper than necessary with cheese, grease, oil, meat and fried things…