last night i needed to get out of the house... kyle wasn't up for a fancy pants dinner, i was up for anything... seemed like a good night to test out a new burger joint. i've been slowly chipping away at all of the albany best-burger recommendations. sutter's is a casual sports bar type place that's known for great burgers and wings (been bustin them out since 1973). casual enough where i could wear the very cupcake tee shirt i was already in. bingo!
we started with 10 of the medium-heat wings... they were really big, juicy, and the sauce was great. not very hot, but great flavor. mmmmm. for burgers, we decided to do the 2 burger split. we both wanted the (i forget the exact name) burger with horseradish sauce & bacon, and added sauteed onions. second we were torn between two, but ended up with the french country burger which had a french country mushroom sauce and cracked peppercorns.
i started with the french country... it was not cooked medium rare as requested, but was still very tasty. i was expecting the mushroom sauce to taste like a mushroom reduction sauce (just what i had in my head), but it was more like a gravy (and sooo messy) so it turned it kind of into a salisbury steak concoction. the one thing i did notice about the patty is that it had a ton of flavor, but it wasn't tooo juicy - it was very firmly packed without a lot of room for juices. looking at their site, it's actually intentional the way they make them firm packed that way, and since it's an 85/15 blend, explains why there isn't a lot of extra fat. it's against my personal preference (loose packed to give a lot of room for fatty mess to play), but i think i can forgive since the meat was very good.
second half was the horseradish... LOVED the sauce on that (horseradish, sourcream & mayo). with the bacon & onion it was quite a mouth party. this patty was also firm and not cooked medium rare, but again it still tasted great. as far as ratings... i'd say it was 5.5*****~.
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