Park Creek Kitchen - The House Burger

PREFACE:

Alright, so I hit up Park Creek Kitchen in Upper Arlington.  Have any of you even heard of this place??  It’s a small place, tucked away on Arlington Rd. in one of the richer parts of U.A.  There, you can find it in a quaint little retail building.  My always trustworthy sidekick, Pickley Pete, accidentally came across the menu on line.  It looked like a classier menu, not the type of menu to boost of greasy, overstuffed hamburgers, however, they had four of them.  And one of them, The House Burger, specifically caught my eye.  Why, you ask?  Try fried pickles.

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I kid you not!  So Pickley Pete, our inexperienced colleague, Kaiser Permente and I set out to find this mysterious restaurant and the fried pickle topped meat-wich that it withheld…..

BURGER:

It was a cold and rainy night and something in the air screamed of mystic wonder.  Alright, just kidding.  Down to business.  “The House Burger” is a half pound of the finest meat I have ever tasted topped with hickory bacon, blue cheese, fried pickles, mixed green lettuce and a tomato.  It comes with either a salad or root vegetable fries.  Root Vegetable Fries:  A mix of potato, sweet potato, celery root, and parsnip fries tossed in sea salt and rosemary.  Simply put – AMAZING!  I’m your typical fries first, burger second type guy, but with these two masterpieces, I had the burger in my right and fries in my left and was alternating between each bite.  And it was one of those meals that I ate as fast as I could incase I should die right then and there.  Yeah, it was that good.

The burger was perfectly proportionate and cooked to an unprecedented medium grade.  Gently stacked between a fresh Kaiser roll, all the flavors fused together creating a sensation I have never felt, well, while eating.  One minute your tasting the spices of the tender meat, the next the smokiness of the bacon, followed closely by a fresh hint of tomato, and then the dill mixed with fried breading, and then concluding with a flash flood the richest  blue cheese this tongue has ever had the pleasure of meeting.  I mean, it must have bought stock in Google at the turn of the millennium.

I know I know, this is my second review and already I am talking up this burger like it was hand crafted by the burger God himself.  But I have to say, this was one of, if not the, best burger I have ever had.  That’s it.  It just was.  And because I keep picturing Robin Leach showing us this Burger’s house, I’m giving this instant classic a mammoth 5.  Go get one, now.

RUN DOWN:

Proportion: 1

Flavor: 1

Ground Beef: 1

Buns: 0

Secondary Ingredients: 1

Fries: 1

ATMOSPHERE OF RESTAURANT

Small, but kind of uncomfortable.  The lighting was that of a doctor’s office, and the furniture was trying to be too modern eclectic in a setting that demanded contemporary comfort.  Though once you start eating the burger, it won’t matter where you are.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

“The House Burger” with fries costs….hold on to your butts…$14.  Worth it????  You be the judge. 

Pickley Pete called this Burger “Legen…wait for it…dary!”

Kaiser Permente blacked out when he finished and came to 3 days later mumbling something about “hope for all” mixed with “I want another”.

Next stop:  Club 185 – ‘Double 185 with bacon and cheese’