Corner Bistro - The Home of the Bistro Burger

A long time before restaurants started to cook hamburgers as gourmet food, Corner Bistro was there. Treating hamburger as hamburger, but giving to it the taste and the place as it deserves.

Figuring on 10 of 10 lists of best burger in NYC, Corner Bistro remains untouchable. It is just a perfect spot for a perfect cooked hamburger or a Bistro Burger (as it is called there). The Bistro Burger is actually a bacon cheeseburger, with artisanal hamburger cooked the way you like it.

My way? Medium rare.

Bistro Burger with Fries and Dark Mc Sorley's

The side fries are amazing! Crunchy and not a deposit of oil, it makes your meal special.

What more I could say? BEERS!

With a good variety of beers, my top choice is a $2.5 Mc Sorley's Dark (they have the ale as well).  Mc Sorley’s is a local Brewery established in West Village in 1854 (http://www.mcsorleysnewyork.com/).

Corner bistro is located at: 331 W 4th St (at corner w/ Jane Street)

(212) 242-9502
http://cornerbistrony.com/

Just one more thing to remember: They don’t accept credit card, so bring money!

How many bars have glasses with shape of beer?

Don't ask for the menu - Look at the wall.

Little Branch - A nice place with a nice Manhattan

This weekend I stopped over Little Branch, a nice little Bar at 7 Ave S on West Village. If you plan to go there you must really be aware of two things:

Becareful to not miss the place

First, pay attention, since there is no sign on the wall. Little Branch is at the Corner of 7 Ave S and Leroy Street, and there is just a small sign on the door and a big line that starts after 9:30PM.

And the second, is to avoid the line, especially during the cold winter days. Since the bar is not so big, after a certain hour, they just let you in once somebody gets out (1 to 1 rule).

They are really into coktails. One option is the "bartender's choice".

The Bar is downstairs, in the basement. Once inside you will find a very nice place, specialized in cocktails, with a jazz/ Caribbean/ reggae sound, not so overcrowded, and with a mixture of New Yorkers and foreigners. For sure is a good place to go.

Since I was by myself, I just stayed at the bar and didn't order a table. At the bar, as usual, I ordered a Manhattan to Lucinda (the bartender).

The result was a really good Manhattan, very classic, and (perhaps because of the vermouth it was used) with a cinnamon and clove taste.. approaching more to sweet than to the dryness or bitter, still a good Manhattan.

The score: 9.  I didn't give a higher grade because could be a little less sweet and a little more dryer, but the spice taste of it (and still on its classical shape) worth every dollar spent on it. And the place was really the final touch.

Congrats Little Branch! And I sure recommend it!