there is a place in Metro Detroit that's
known for its hot dogs gourmet hot dogs
in fact that's their name atomic dog but
their burgers are taking center stage as
they start something new at the
restaurant in Berkeley and joining us is
chef Gary Brunner who is a friend of
mine and you are the purveyor of my one
of my favorite local hamburgers and you
know I've been coming there for years oh
yeah the claws pickles and absolutely
chips and whatnot so tell us about the
burgers in addition to the dogs well
well we're getting all our meat from our
J's market and in Eastern Market it's a
ground chuck I've got one that's just
about prepared here I'm like the sneakin
some veggies on a lot of this stuff you
could put on I certainly wouldn't be on
my burger
well nice baby spinach said a little bit
of lemon juice I think I got some of the
earthiness that happens a lot of times
with spinach it's gonna steam that down
a little bit yeah when you look that lit
up there's gonna be like a little mesh
one of the reasons that you're talking
burgers because people can get your food
a little later in the day now used to be
a lunch joint but with the advent of
something called a restricted liquor
license oh yes yes yes we've got beer
wine and small amount of liquor we're
doing some wonderful cocktails now we're
open 11:00 to 2:00 uh-huh and then we
close and we open up five until it nine
Oh
so at night you can go there and get
your beer on with a burger yeah and of
course I would be remiss if I didn't
point out that you also have a real
sugar sodas in your case yes and atomic
dog if you've never been there it's also
cool because if like me you're into
mid-century modern you guys have a
really cool dining room all original
antiques to indicate that the cane sugar
of really really gives you that old
flavor like when you were a little kid
you know all the corns what's up so
that's kind of I brought a bunch of
stuff so I don't worry well let's take a
look at some of the other things you
have out here
this is a good bacon burger there it is
what is this the Gouda bacon burger yeah
guru like not like the opposite of
better but guru like and we're just
gonna set that on there we got a nice
baby spinach so we cooked off and now
you're gonna top that with us by psy
Ginsberg spicy mustard so we get our hot
dogs from and there it is the Buddha
burger but yeah something really special
we brought along for us
what is that Jason Carr we could take
the lid off here so you could see all
the goodness underneath there we go
thank you so much look at that it's
tomato extra mcclure pickles just the
way you like it medium rare also medium
rare as well yeah I got to have the
cheese on there the cheddar cheese and
the McLaurys pickles and the homemade
potato chips right right over here
cabinet to do soups now to another
healthy choice would go great with the
Guru bacon burger I think this is a
sweet potato and cognac cream of course
it wouldn't be a hotdog place without
Chicago dogs our homemade chili this is
a burger champion it's wild mushrooms
sauteed and sherry cream and cognac and
then Swiss cheese it's too bad you don't
have anything for Tatia oh I know I do a
veggie burger we make them ourselves I
was eyeing yeah what's this veggie
burger made of baby chichi beans barley
lots of things Jason a little egg to
bind it together so it's not vegan no
but we make it ourselves it's just so
many chemicals and so many of the things
these days of you making your own you
know good nice very nice yeah we could
do with different styles - are you with
some of our coleslaw and some russian
dressing like a Russian style a nice I
highly recommend atomic dog not just for
the hot dogs before and you can somebody
actually walk in and get the Jason Carr
absolutely you got to know somebody you
know you got to be from the area you
know around the way we work it out we
work it out work it out that's it chef
Gary thank you thanks for having us out
so everywhere you are again oh right
downtown Berkeley
between 11:00 and 12:00 on Coolidge
Highway get the bridge you burger - it's
good
absolute and the Jason Carr burger
mm-hmm