The Other Critics

Bauer Disses Burger Bar; Unterman Adores Lers Ros

Michael Bauer delivered several blows to Hubert Keller’s Burger Bar on the sixth floor of Macy’s, calling the interior “like Tadich Grill meets Johnny Rocket’s,” and saying of the Surf & Turf Burger, “I can’t figure out why anyone would want a rubbery slab of lobster on a beef patty, along with nearly raw spears of asparagus.” He did like the quarter of the foie-gras-and-Kobe burger he tried, but noted lukewarm fries on multiple occasions and has nothing good to say about the “ineffective” staff.

Patricia Unterman, who never met a Thai restaurant she wouldn’t try, returns for a second visit to Lers Ros on Larkin Street and still can’t believe “how exciting” the food is – “hot, sour, sweet and salty; sparkly with citrus, herbs and roots; crunchy with fried shallots, garlic and peanuts; and profoundly balanced.”

View trumps the food at Burger Bar [Chron]
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Bauer Disses Burger Bar; Unterman Adores Lers Ros