Hello all! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Wednesday. I’m not working at Reservation today. No, instead I am enjoying my first day off since last Tuesday and man is my body tired. I’ve worked approximately eighty to eighty five hours in the last six days. Tack on travel time and we’re right near one hundred hours. But more on this in the flurry of posts to come over the course of the day.
You’ll remember in this post http://newbieintheweeds.blogspot.com/2008/02/dont-play-with-your-food-file-under.html that I mentioned that I was reading Heston Blumenthal’s “In Search of Perfection” and that I sent my lovely and talented fiancé C to go to Le Parker Meridian to have one of the best burgers in New York City (http://www.parkermeridien.com/eat4.php ).
At first she was a little curious that I was asking her to go to one of the finest hotels in New York City. C thought that I was sending her to a place where she was going to have to pay fifty dollars for a burger. Instead she was pleasantly surprised.
Walking through the lobby of the hotel she was taken aback at the splendour and beauty of it all. Somewhere in the back of her mind she must have thought that this was not the ideal place for the best burger in New York. But she played along and although I had given her instructions as to how to find the place inside the hotel she still could not find it. Of course that is not all that surprising given that you have to walk down a narrow hallway to find Emile Castillo’s burger joint.
As she walked through the door C was transported to a lovely juxtaposition, a friendly and warm hamburger joint that you’d sooner find on a street corner diner than a beautiful hotel. The first thing she remarked about was the fact that the place was packed. It was almost impossible to get a seat. But being the beautiful lovely young lady that she is (and fairly lucky) a table opened up which she quickly and deftly grabbed. The next thing she remarked about was the décor. It was authentic, cluttered (but in a good way) with all kinds of memorabilia plastered on the walls.
Having secured a table she joined the line and read the no nonsense menu which I’ve included with the URL above. She ordered a Hamburger, fries and some beer. Quickly she realized why I had sent her to this place. It was AMAZING. The burger was served plainly but to order and was beyond all things DELICIOUS. The fries were as fries should be crispy on the outside and like mashed potato on the inside.
Thus, after her experience I was assured that Heston Blumenthal was in fact correct (no big surprise here) that one of the best burgers in all of the United States is at Le Parker Meridien.
That said Heston once said; “But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.”
Have you found your hobby yet?
Dream big and INSPIRED!
A la prochaine
SDM
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