Maggie Burnt

Today for brunch I visited Clinton Hill's own Maggie Brown. It's a nice little place and it's generally pretty friendly. I've been there often and had their burger 75% of the time. It's usually pretty good, so at brunch I decided to have the burger. The burger at brunch comes with cheese, horse radish, lettuce, tomato, onions and bacon - and it's only $10. DEAL!

I dont think our wait staff was too excited about the fact that we had more people than expected and it showed during our entire service.

When our food came I couldn't help but to notice that the outter edges of my burger and bacon were burnt - not just over cooked, but actually charred. I also noticed the excessive amount of onions; maybe that was to cover my burnt burger? I don't generally like to send food back, so I prepared my burger anyway. Before prepping my burger I ate a pinch of the horse radish and it tasted like nothing, literally nothing....BORING. But everything else looked great - nice bun, nice tomato, fresh onions, melted cheese, spotty lettuce - but it looked fresh.

The first bite was revolting. It tasted like nothing but char. So I think to myself, maybe it's just this bite. Second and third bites - char again. Pretty much the rest of my burger was ok and not so charred until the end. However, pretty much every bite in between was ruined with the char taste from the first two or three bites. It goes without saying that because it was so over cooked in the broiler that the burger was far from the medium rare that I ordered.

The fries were good and fresh and crispy, but slightly under salted.

I've had great burgers at Maggie Brown's, but all three burgers that were ordered were burnt and was very disappointing. Also, maybe I've watched too much Hell's Kitchen, but who lets burnt food go to the floor? Maybe it's my fault for accepting a burnt burger, but I seriously thought I could find some redemption in the whole. The only redemption I got was Bob Marley being playing on the overhead speakers.

In time I'll give Maggie Brown's burger another try, but for now. I'm going to steer clear.

Food Average: 3.1
Total Average: 3.4

Note: Burger total was a 2.4 - the fries totally saved the food average. Also I would take a O'Neill's burger over the burger I had today.