Where’s the Fire?
Summer weekends for New York scenesters means ditching the pasty pallor and nut-hugging jeans for sun burns and flip-flops, and heading to the beach, right? Also it means eating burgers until you can amply fill out your muu-muu like you were Brando tromping around Tahiti. If this is your intention when you head to the Hamptons, you might want to adhere to Black Book’s method to determine the best ones: follow the local firemen. Ed “Jean Luc” Kleefeld is engaged in an unwinnable war on Main Street in Sag Harbor. The battle of the Burger—pitting his JLX against local fireman haunt the Corner Bar just across the street. JL’s $12 meat patty (the quality of which seems to depend on what supplier he’s stiffed that week) comes served on an English muffin by waiters who speak in “movie French” (as Tom Wolfe so evocatively describes the accent of false Francophones). The Corner’s juicy burger comes with a sautéed onion-mushroom mix and a Bud.
Posted on 06.26.08 to Burgers, Dining Out by Seymour Cutlets
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Ange- added these pithy words on Mar 14 12 at 1:23 pmI once saw Capt. Ahab at the Corner Bar; he ordered a fish burger, of course I was but a child then & will always be impressed by his sense of fashion. Myself, I preferred that juicy burger with a Bud.
