Great Quezon City Burger Finds (Part I)
I've recently been cruising around the Katipunan and Sikatuna areas and have noticed a great proliferation of diners all laying claim to having great burgers. I’ve not finished my tasting trips on this side of town and I’m sure I will discover more great and pleasurable finds. But here is one of two that I’m adding to my list of favorites.
The Burger Project – This is on 122 Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village, Quezon City. I was curiously taking a spin looking for some options in this area that has all these quaint little restaurants and I saw prominent signs that said The Burger Project and Angus Beef. The restaurant catches you immediately as a fun place where you can make your own burger with a whole slew of hot and fresh ingredients in front of you for you to visualize and conceptualize your creation. A lot of thought went into this Burger Project concept having a costly hot and cold display area of ingredients in front of the customer with such a wide selection to choose from. Chef Edward Bugia, one of the principal owners of the place says that the burger patties here are very innocently made. The patties are just coarsely ground with just salt and pepper and no binder. This school of thought gives you the true flavor of beef with a lot of tenderness because there are no binders to hold the beef bits together.
Call me decadent, but in this place I definitely will recommend the Angus patties rather than the regular burgers because the beefy flavor becomes very pronounced after grilling and definitely a double patty packs flavor on your palate. I even recommend an extra patty with their designer burgers in order to balance the frills that have been added to the classic. Such additions may veer your taste buds away from the original intent of what you came for which is the burger.
I recommend the newbies to try a classic double Angus patty and if you are two or more, get the designer combination to compare the flavor step ups or variants.
Although for me there is really no need for a burger that flirts with all the combinations because I’m a downright classicist when it comes to this dish, I would recommend the double Angus patty as the main focal point of the Bleu Buffalo, which has blue cheese dressing, hot buffalo wings sauce, onion rings, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles. An extra patty softens and gives a good subtle flavor to the blue cheese dressing and also tempers the heat from the Buffalo wing sauce. The other is the Western Bacon Melt which has cheddar cheese, bacon, sautéed mushrooms, onion rings, tomatoes and barbecue sauce. Probably on a next visit I will try their Sloppiest Joe with chili con carne, Canadian bacon, cheddar cheese, caramelized onions and tomatoes. For fixins, the onion rings are most impressive. They are large, puffy and fried to a correct gold. The chicken or buffalo wings are correctly glazed with no sweet Pinoy or sacrilegious renditions but a good wing sauce with a bite that comes with the correct blue cheese dressing. The glaze is a little superfluous but the wings still come out with a crisp exterior though I miss a carrot, cucumber and celery stick or two on the plate. Definitely, the Burger Project is a great place to add to a carnivorous craving or mood.- Article Courtesy of Manila Bulletin.
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