Shake Shack (Madison Sq Park)

This place is the truth. It's everything a burger shack should be. They have delicious burgers, shakes, hot dogs, and a few other goodies too. The only downside to this place is the insane line you have to stand in to get your feed on. We went on an overcast day when it had rained for a few minutes then stopped. The line was tiny and it took us 20 minutes to get up to the counter. We tried to go to Shake Shack another time (before bailing and resorting to the ill fated Molly's) and the line was easily 3 times as long.

The burger is very simple. It has cheese and a bun. The bun is nothing special. The cheese is standard american cheese. But the burger! My god it's a tasty goddamn piece of meat. The fries are crinkle-cut and maybe double fried. They are crispy and delicious and salted perfectly.

Shiva is a crazy bastard and ordered a cheeseburger, hot dog, cheese fries, vanilla concrete (insane milkshake) and a beer. He looked uncomfortable but also very happy after his experience; almost like he climbed the highest mountain in all the land (or some other momentous victory).

Go to shake shack but be prepared for the wait. Rest assured it's worth it. 90/100

Landmarc

Landmarc is a decent restaurant (I suppose) with a decent burger (I suppose). Was it bad? Certainly not. Was it good? Sure. Do I care? No. Will I go back? No. Is this review over? Yes.

Pauls

This place is over in the East Village and is a shit hole......I really wanted to like this place, it too was highly recommended on a few sites and from people I know......but what can I say the waitress was in her 50's going on 70 with a coke habit, nothing like watching her run around the place snorting like crazy and fucking up our orders....all burgers done medium and the wrong buns......

This place needs a through cleaning and management that actually cares.......clean house and it has the potential to be something........

Wait for a change on management and don't waste your time going here.

Landmarc

Ok, I've been lagging with writing these reviews......I feel like a rookie and have no one to blame but myself.......anyway here it goes.......

This place is located in Tribeca and is overrated by many bloggers and reviewers.....in my humble opinion......basically nice place, nice bathroom, blah burger.....nothing that knocks your socks off.....ok but nothing great....i'm looking for great......that's about all I have to say.

Paul's Burgers (near Union Sq.)

This place is TERRIBLE. It is completely over-hyped and doesn't deserve any of the good things people say about it. The burger is completely bland. The fries are godawful. The idea of the place is really good but they execute it very very poorly. Our server went into the bathroom to do some blow then came over to our table and started talking to us like a crazy person. She was saying things like "wow! you're a hungry one today aren't ya hon?", "you all set honey-bunny?" and the like. She was probably 45 and should have stopped doing drugs a long time ago. Her nose was either inside-out or upside-down or both. This is the worst place so far. 49/100 FAIL

Landmarc in Tribeca

This place was pretty good, but not great. The best thing at this place is they cook the burgers on a grill you can see from the dining area. The burger was good but not memorable. I will probably completely forget this place exists within 30 seconds. Oh, and the server was a total douche. 65/100

Bar Artisanal

Bar Artisanal might be the one. This, dear reader, is precisely why this society is formed. Expectations were low. The large, designy dining room was empty, save for the masses of staff milling about. What few customers were there were not of our ilk; the hostess hemmed and hawed about seating us without a reservation. A few minutes at the bar and she managed to locate one of the dozens of empty tables for us. Dressed like the dickheads we are, we received shockingly good service from the bar, the waitstaff, the bus boys and whatever else the throngs of staff are. It's a new restaurant, we figured, it's empty we figured, they can't afford not be all over us, we figured. But, before eight, it was pretty packed, and although this would normally upset me greatly, it pleases me to know that they will almost certainly be around for a while.

Boasting a cheesebar that, um, has a helluva lot of fancy cheese that I know nothing about this was an atypical experience for burger club. They also had fried cheese, I know a little something about that. You can pick any of the cheesebar cheeses to cheeseup your burger.

The burger is fantastic. This is a burger you could eat with a wooden spoon and no teeth. The goddamn thing just melts in your mouth. This burger is as close to perfection as I have seen. I lost my score card, and I don't care, because it scored high, very high. I think the only category that it didn't score hgih was the "giving me three burgers so I can keep eating them" category which I just made up. It a month ago and I'm actualy salivating right now. The fries were great, delicious, crispy and just the right amount of a little too much salt.

For the last three burger club adventures all three of us, at some point, have said, "Let's just go back to Bar Artisinal." Good golly that was a good burger.