My favorite burger? It’s fries.
Tonight, I joined the Burger Baroness and many others for Burger Club Philly, capping off a long week of medicating myself with meat. (It is “feed a cold, starve a flu”, right?) Including tonight, in the past 8 days, I’ve had the Swift Half burger, the Butcher and Singer $6 deal, the Windsor burger at Pub and Kitchen and the PYT burger.
Now, that’s a lot of meat. A LOT of meat. And after some reflection, I would probably say the Swift Half burger was the best of those four, for the right ratio of price, size and taste (and cheese selection. If you want to put some proper cheese on a burger, the Swift Half is your spot.) But they were all pretty darn tasty, and I ate heartily of all of them.
Over that same period, I could easily give you a ranked list of fries.
PYT and Butcher and Singer both fell below the completion level; I left fries on my plate. PYT fries were undersalted. Butcher and Singer fries were overcooked.
DiBruno Brothers is a pleasing lunchtime addition to the Center City french fry offerings, though it’s clearly their sauces that set them ahead of, say, Five Guys. Swift Half also has a solid, salty, tasty offering.
I thought no one in town was selling a fry sauce better than Monk’s/Nodding Head/Belgian Cafe, and that was after my sauce-sampling extravaganza at DiBruno Brothers. And they take their fries seriously. Those folks might have fell off the balcony at Monk’s trying to grab a basket of fries.
Pub and Kitchen apparently took that as a challenge, and went one better. Their truffled dijonnaise knocked my socks off. I could have eaten it with a spoon. (I did eat it on toast.) Every fry on the plate was delicious — crispy, salty, no soggy or limp ones, full potato-ey flavor. Fries for dinner? At Pub and Kitchen, yes, please!
