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At b.B.d.'s the hamburger comes first and foremost, using USDA Certified Prime Beef that is hand-butchered and pattied in the restaurant’s fully visible butcher room. This New York-based restaurant brings an innovative approach to the neighborhood restaurant featuring burgers, handcrafted milkshakes, wood-fired custom-cut steaks, an extensive vegan and vegetarian selection, and a curated craft beer program.
Closing November 30, 2019.
This restaurant was reviewed in the January 2019 LVA; some of the information contained in this review may no longer be accurate.
One of several new restaurants at Palace Station is bBd’s, a funky burger joint out of Long Island, NY, that specializes in the items its initials stand for—burgers, Beer, and desserts. What do we mean by “funky”? The place is decked out in dark art, with heavy-metal music playing and a four color newsprint menu that also provides a company history and profiles of those dark artists. A big selection of burgers—grilled, griddled, or steamed—are all made with 100% prime beef. There’s a lot more than burgers on the menu, including hot sandwiches, several veggie items, and a Long Island duck ramen ($18) that we’re going back to try. On this visit, though, we went with the burgers on both ends of the price spectrum and a side of French onion rings. The rings are top notch, made from brined Vidalia onions and tempura-fried. But $9 for 13 rings is a pretty stiff 69¢ per. Similarly, the burgers are excellent, but pricey. The $8 steamed burger might use a better grade of meat, but it seemed like an oversized slider compared to other $8 burgers around town. And the 12-ounce steakhouse cheeseburger for $21 didn’t quite feel like a “twentydollar burger.” Desserts are interesting, running $7-$13 for seven choices, including cheesecake, custard, and Valrhona liquid chocolate cake. We had a decent bread pudding for $9.
Finally, the place does justice to its capital B for beers, with “26 direct-draw draught brews, two cask engines, a nitro tower, and 60+ bottles.” The least expensive on the list is Miller High Life for $3.50, and you don’t have to feel common for ordering it. The bartender spewed about a dozen procedural reasons (that we didn’t understand) for why it would be the “best Miller we’d ever had” and that crisp and ice-cold pint just might have been. The play: Get the steakhouse burger and a frosty Miller and use the MRB’s new bBd offer for $10 off and you’ve got yourself a banger burger and a best-ever brew for under 15 bucks.
