Burger Tasting at Folsom BistroAs noted above, DarthLefty, Mylo, and my son and I went to Folsom Bistro today to work on our first hamburger taste testing venture.
This was the first time I've been to Folsom Bistro, it's a nice place. Darth Lefty posted a good accurate description of the place as follows; "As for ambience, this place is kind of schizo. They have silverware and white tablecloths and serve drinks in big wine glasses and have a nice little bar in the back. But it's in a food court area, so it still has that industrial big-window aspect of say a Chipotle. The kitchen is closed off which takes a big chunk out of the room, closes off the sight lines and makes the place feel small."
here's a photo of one half of the restaurant
photo of the other half of the restaurant
The menu was very good for a lunch menu, there's a few more things I'd like to go back try and try sometime ...like their risotto and duck confit.
here's the menu
The service was pretty good, the gal working there was very attentive and kept our drinks filled often and she brought out our food hot - I can't ask for much more then that.
We all ordered the Kobe Beef Burger Lunch deal that comes with fries and a drink.
The Kobe Burger itself comes with onion confit, tomato, butter lettuce and steak sauce.
Mylo and I ordered our burgers medium rare and DarthLefty and my son ordered theirs medium. I have to say this is one of the first places that really got the orders cooked perfectly as we ordered - it's all too common that burgers get over cooked and that really ruins the taste, but I give thumbs up to Folsom Bistro for cooking it spot on exactly as I requested. The burger was nice and cooked and charred a bit on the outside and pink and juicy on the inside - just the way I like it.
These burgers were still bleedin' they were so juicy. I think I also learned I like medium a bit better then medium rare (they weren't kidding about the rare part)
The quality of the ingredients seemed to be perfect; excellent lean kobe beef, fresh tomato and butter lettuce and the fries were good too - they aren't the kind I really like a lot but they were good.
The presentation of the burger was as expected...
The taste was very good, the beef, as noted previously, was very excellent, I had mine with the guyure cheese and with the cooked onion confit it tasted very good. It could have been a little more seasoned but sometimes I gotta step back and say to myself, that's not something you should really mess with on traditional hamburgers - the juices alone were the flavor to savor and that made for a very good tasting burger.
We're still working on a ratings scale so we can track the scores for each place and here's sorta what we're using for guidelines right now
1) quality of ingredients
2) presentation of plate
3) taste of ingredients
4) service
5) ambiance
6) value
If there's anything else we should use as benchmark's please feel free to make suggestions and come on down and join us sometime - our next tasting will be at the old Big Dip on Natoma next Weds at noon
Cheers!
