Blue Danube: "The Danube Melt"

ATTENDEES:

Columbus Burger Bum, Sassy Slaw, "Mayor of Grandview" (not really), Cousin Slider

PREFACE:

Gene Simmons once sang "I want to rock 'n' roll all night, and party everyday".  What he failed to mention was where he would go prior to rocking and rolling if he wanted a burger.  Well metal-heads, the Blue Danube is just that place.

BURGER:

One of the best things about hamburgers is that price usually has no bearing on whether you think it is great or not.  You can spend three Washingtons on a patty and bun and fall in love with the sandwich immediately, or you could drop a Jackson on a masterpiece with all of the fix-ins and wish you'd gone to White Castle instead.  The gems could be literally anywhere.  Unfortunately for me, I didn't find one at the Blue Danube.

Because of the old-school, rock 'n' roll, diner-type atmosphere of Blue Danube, I felt it only necessary to go with a diner-type sandwich.  Everyone likes a good old fashioned melt, especially during these frigged winter months.  And what's more, it comes with not one, but two sides.  Fries were choice numero uno, of course, but my second?  Ok, this is hard for me to admit, but I'm just going to throw it out there.  I LOVE, and I mean LOVE, cottage cheese.  And if you're serving it, I'm eating it.  Couple that with fries and a burger and I'm in clogged artery heaven!  I'm even thinking about creating a new blog dedicated to discussing the pros and cons of both large curd and small curd cottage cheese.  I'll have to run it by my agent to see what he thinks of the idea. But, I digress.

Back to the burg.  This sandwich definitely fit into the price range in which it sat...cheap.  The patty was barely there, the flavor was dominated by the rye bread in which it sat, the swiss was minimal, and the secondary ingredients were secondary to their own category.  The best part was the thousand island dressing that they put on the side.  A tip of the hat to one of the better melts man has conceived, the Reuben.

This sandwich also had fried onions.  A lot of them.  It was almost an onion sandwich topped with meat.  Very overpowering.  And because of the squared slices of rye bread and the rounded patties, by the time I got to the corner of each half I was just eating "onions on rye"

And the fries were fries, as per usual.  Just like the high school cafeteria....seemingly good because the sandwich isn't too great.  Oh, but even better if dipped in mayo.

RUN DOWN:

Proportion: -1
Flavor: 0
Ground Beef:0
Bun:0
Secondary Ingredients:-1
Fries: 0
TOTAL:-2
 

ATMOSPHERE:

I  would love to blog about the atmosphere's of these bars and restaurants because of places like this.  It was great.  The way I envision it looking 30 years ago.  Old-timey booths, a sticky, faded wood floor, and a ceiling adorned with individually painted ceiling tiles are a perfect setting for rockers of all genres, be that punk, indie, metal or new wave.  And what's more, the classic jukebox played GREAT rock music.  Not one song disappointed.  Oh, and did I mention cheap beer?  You put all of these together, and you'd want nothing more than to sit around with your friends talking about crazy adventures of the years passed and toasting to anything you could think of.

ADD COs:

We went to Blue Danube prior to the Broken Bells concert and it was the perfect start to a rockin' good night.  If you plan on pulling out your old "Frogstomp" t-shirt, only have a 10 spot in your wallet, and just want to chill out, then this is the place to go.  But maybe stop for a burger before hand.