Shake Shack, baby!

[avram]

I finally got to eat at the Shake Shack! Damn, now I envy everyone who works in a one-block radius of Madison Square. Well, maybe not, since I hear the line at lunchtime gets hour-long. It opened up from winter hiatus last month, but it closes at 4 PM in April. Open till 9 now, though, so there’s plenty of time after work to get yer shake on.

I had a Chicago-style hot dog, and damn, Chicagoans know how to treat a frank! In Chicago you order a dog with everything by saying “Drag it through the garden”, and now I know why. It comes on a poppy-seed bun, loaded with pickles, sport peppers (something I’d never even heard of before), lettuce, relish bright enough that I expected it to emit laser beams, celery salt, and mustard (I had them hold the mustard). Enough stuff piled on that even though half of it fell off I still felt like I was getting a full salad with my dog.

I also got cheese fries and a chocolate shake. bugsybanana got a Chicago dog and a taxi dog (hot dog with onions and kraut, I think). Next time I gotta try the frozen custard.

Comments

[tinpan.livejournal.com]

the frozen custard tastes like a very smooth soft ice cream. melty and good. but at $2.75 per cup you won't mistake it for TCTBY anytime soon.

[avram]

Jeez, the food options around SVA are so much better now than when I went there (more than a decade ago)! Ever eat at Havana Pies? That’s another place that wasn’t there when I could have used it.

[strangeden.livejournal.com]

Wow. My arteries got hard just READING this. :)

[pnh.livejournal.com]

The Shake Shack is indeed fab. You can often get lunch there without a long wait if you show up at 11.

Their Chicago dog is excellent; it could only be improved by the use of a somewhat sturdier bun. They also do nearly-perfect canonical burgers.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

Or if you come at 2pm or later. Convienently, that's about the time I usually take lunch.

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

Maybe the rave review in the NEW YORKER has something to do with longer lines.

I fear for the same thing happening to Pioneer Pit Beef in Baltimore. As it is, we have to pick a rotten day and go at opening to avoid long lines.

[jcb.livejournal.com]

do they sell polish sausage, too? because that's a staple.

[delusionsofmind.livejournal.com]

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