Jg melon review

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Melon always comes up in conversation about the best burger in the city. Boy, was I totally wrong. The bar area is softly lit, while the dining area is even darker. It made me wonder if the sun had set, would I have even been able to see my food. My friends and I snagged a few seats at the bar while waiting about minutes for our table in the back.

Jg melon review

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. One of the few nice things about the original J. Melon, perennially packed and irrationally celebrated for its no-frills pub burgers, is the soundtrack of sizzling meat. Cooks slap fat patties on a griddle with such frequency that the Pavlovian hiss of browning beef never ceases. One could mistake the low-level hum for an ambient mood tape — like a soothing track of summer rainfall or ocean waves. Then you come to your senses. If only — J. No shortage of publications, including Eater , has placed J. G Melon among its ranks of top New York burgers. What makes the venue unique, however, is some of the more unexpected voices it has attracted to the fray. Former mayor and billionaire presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has professed his love. These pronouncements refer to the first J.

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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. One of the few nice things about the original J. Melon, perennially packed and irrationally celebrated for its no-frills pub burgers, is the soundtrack of sizzling meat. Cooks slap fat patties on a griddle with such frequency that the Pavlovian hiss of browning beef never ceases. One could mistake the low-level hum for an ambient mood tape — like a soothing track of summer rainfall or ocean waves. Then you come to your senses. If only — J. No shortage of publications, including Eater , has placed J. G Melon among its ranks of top New York burgers.

Jg melon review

NYC Review. Bar Food Burgers. Upper East Side. There was a time when this was the only restaurant anywhere near the Upper East Side that we would make a trip for. Melon's is one of the better burgers in New York City, and it had it's 30th anniversary long before Shake Shack and Five Guys started opening up locations around town like Duane Reade.

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Getting the check is almost as difficult as getting a seat at the counter. Eater NY will be revisiting long-established restaurants that have acquired towering reputations and still generate plenty of traffic to find out if the food quality justifies our continued admiration. Pocket Flipboard Email. For those of us who grew up in New York City and have watched Manhattan transform over the past decades—rows of quirky tenements knocked down and replaced with gleaming glass towers, our favorite diners and pizza parlors shut in favor of juice bars and cafes serving overpriced avocado toast — J. A bacon cheeseburger from J. Melon is an excellent copy of the first. Like Proust's Madeleine, the burger will recall memories for me. Actually, they seem to have also licensed every other detail, from the burger recipe to the cottage fries to the sweet, dank smell of wet bar towels and stale beer. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Unlike in Europe, we are constantly rushed out of restaurants in New York.

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Skip to content J. Written by Chris Stang. The new spot on MacDougal Street is run by a few seasoned restaurateurs and one longtime manager of the original who licensed both the name and the watermelon trinkets from the 3rd Avenue location. The burger does not smell richly of beef, like a proper Shake Shack specimen, nor does it pack any succulent juiciness. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Melon accepted credit cards, or if the food were actually good. Perhaps some of these absurdities would be tolerable if the place were truly dirt cheap, if J. But really, almost everything that comes out of the kitchen is a burger. You can ask for a medium rare burger, just as you can ask the finance bro next to you to buy you a Lamborghini Aventador. G Melon among its ranks of top New York burgers.