avram | Shake Shack, baby! (Reply)

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.