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- On a quest to find the best cheeseburger in New York City.
My husband and I, a few months ago,
started doing these burger tours.
We'd wake up on a Saturday,
we'd go hit up five or six
of the best cheeseburgers in the city.
We'd rate them, we'd figure out which we love best,
turns out I don't need him to do that.
I'm gonna eat five cheeseburgers today,
I'm gonna do it all by myself,
I'm ready.
I don't know if you can tell
but my pants are unzipped.
We're here at Le Rivage for the French Onion Soup Burger
and we should start eating.
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Chef mentioned back there while we're making it
that you're gonna be able to see the French onion soup
as if it were on top of a burger,
he wasn't kidding.
It's just puddles and puddles of onions.
It is quite literally falling apart in the best of ways.
Also, we need more burgers on English muffins.
Another thing that you don't expect to get from all of this
is there's a super vanilla dijon on top
and you get that even though
there are piles and piles of onions here.
I just feel the need to pull and eat one by one
but we'd be here all day.
So it does feel like this is a super untraditional way
to start a burger tour like this
and burgers blur.
This is a burger that's not going to blur.
Have you ever seen anything like this?
Highly recommend.
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This is Chumley's,
which makes sense because that place
says "not Chumley's."
It's pretty magical in there.
They have an incredible (bleep) burger.
It has bone marrow, crispy shallots
and this crazy Chumley sauce
which has like eleven ingredients,
it's completely insane.
I am very excited, itching and ready to go.
Burger number two.
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What's so special about this burger
is this patty of bone marrow
that they torch the (bleep) out of.
Sorry, I cursed.
So we have double patties here,
super thin, one layer of cheese,
and we have Chumley sauce.
Crispy shallots,
I didn't even realize there were shallots
that's why it's a little bit sweet.
Then we have the patty of bone marrow,
best thing on the planet.
You're not going to use this as b-roll, are you?
You are, okay.
Oh my God.
My favorite burger in this whole (bleep) city.
There's a lot of sweetness going on on top
and that is the shallots.
I don't know why I thought they were onions,
they're super sweet shallots.
It's greasy and drippy.
Sometimes that's a bad thing
and it's not a bad thing here.
In fact, it's really beautiful.
I just wanna keep eating.
Oh, I just touched my face
and now I feel meat grease all over.
Do I have burger in my teeth now?
We're here for burger number three
at Suprema Provisions.
I'm laughing cause I just caught a glimpse of myself
in the window of this place.
I look like a pink potato sack of meat sweats.
I don't even, that's just where we're at.
So, it's time to eat.
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Chef made it really clear,
there are no substitutions on this thing.
And I think that's because it's quite literally
a work of art that he's very proud of.
I wanna get a bit of everything,
I don't know if my mouth is big enough.
I don't know what it means to be a luxurious burger
but this is a luxurious burger.
So there is some of this cheese sauce
that's pooled at the bottom here.
We have brisket and short rib patty
which is wildly different than anything
we've eaten today so far.
There's black garlic sauce, iberico jamon bacon jam,
and we've got these roasted cherry tomatoes on top
which is so pretty.
By far the most gram-able burger
we've tackled today, I would say.
Words betray me.
Let's cool down a little bit.
It's exciting because again, the whole meat sweats thing.
We're at Emmy Squared in the East Village.
This burger is supposed to be (bleep) fantastic
even though it's a pizza place.
That's a whole other story.
I'm ready to eat more, again.
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It's taken us four stops to get to this point
but we have pickles and we have a little bit of heat.
And if you don't want a slightly spicy pickle
I don't know that I want to know you.
This is like a two hand ordeal.
It's an extremely layered burger.
We're looking at double patties here
and each of them is coated with cheese.
We've got the Sammy sauce,
that's where the heat is coming from.
All the pickles in the world.
Oh, there's lettuce down here.
I don't really care about the lettuce
but I care about all the other things.
And a pretzel bun.
Is that butter, did you put butter on it?
I missed the butter, that's why it's so shiny.
Anyway, burger time.
(bleep) fantastic.
The pretzel bun's what hits you first.
You can taste all the layers, it's like whoa.
This is like a burger architectural achievement.
Okay, stop number five,
there's a big pig in the door.
It says, life is short, eat the bacon, so that's fun.
This is supposed to be an incredible burger.
Actually, I've had it before, it's an incredible burger
and I'm so excited to rap on it so this should be great.
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This guy into all the burgers it seems we've got here,
but it feels important to point out
how salty these fries are.
See how salty they are?
It is falling apart in my hands.
I want a bite of everything
especially because the bun is super buttery,
which is why it's falling apart.
Firstly there's this sauce
that's on every single layer of this thing.
And I think she had said it was ketchup and habanero,
so it was quite literally that mayo I'm obsessed with.
But with some dijon-y, mustard-y aspect to it.
So we've got this super buttered bun,
then we've got the pickles, which I have destroyed.
Double patties, cheese on each,
which again is incredibly important in the art of a burger.
This burger is not trying so hard, do you know what I mean?
We have had some burgers that are trying really hard.
This one, it just is.
I've thought about it a lot
and I would say that I know more about cheeseburgers
than probably anyone on this planet, so,
that's about all you need to know.
I'm happy.
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