Best Hamburger and Martini in Chicago-Erwin

Just got back from Erwin, where I had the best hamburger -thick, tasty, with great fries, cole slaw and pickles. Also the best Martini-Tanguery 10, stirred, dry, with olive onion and a twist.

Have tried hamburgers many places and this one of the best!

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Here is picture of hamburger ( I hope, first time ). Also had chicken liver salad, and a grilled salmon.[/img]

On Tuesday's they have 1/2 price martinis all night. (I assume they still do--the last time I was there was a few months ago.) They also have a decent gin selection - Hendricks at half price is such a good deal. My only (not real) beef with their martini is that of the super-sized variety.

There are so many interesting gins out there: Miller's, Junipero, Old Raj, Citadelle, Damrak, Hendricks (my personal favorite)--I know that we have a Scotch tasting tonight...but I can feel a gin tasting coming on soon too!

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Gin tasting sounds great!

I like hamburgers (just had a Nicky's Big Baby for lunch, and it was very spot-hitting).

I like vodka martinis (I'd have one right now if I could).

I've never had these two favorite things together and just looking at the picture, I understand why. The hamburger is a handful; you grip it, you eat it, you get blood on your chin. The vodka martini is, to my way of thinking, an epitome of refined boozing, the clear liquid with the minimalist olive garnish, the long stem, the frosty patina on the crystal.

One is a working man's lunch; the other a leisure class concoction.

They sound like they'd be great together, and just by having a lunch like this, I feel I'd be doing something to help pacify class warfare by getting both the proletarian sandwich and the capitalist cocktail to the table together.

David "I can over-intellectualize any damn thing, really, I can" Hammond

I am also a vodka martini guy (Belvidere, up, extra-dry w/ blue cheese olives, thank you) and I like burgers. Keefer's does both of these quite well (or rare or anywhere in between ). If you know you aren't going back to work after lunch the Keefer's 10 oz'rs and a burger with excellent fries is a great lost afternoon.

They sound like they'd be great together, and just by having a lunch like this, I feel I'd be doing something to help pacify class warfare by getting both the proletarian sandwich and the capitalist cocktail to the table together.

Marxist theory would suggest a slight change in vocabulary: rather than capitalist, you should state bourgeoisie. In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie was the social group opposed to the proletariat in the class struggle.

Cathy2 wrote:

They sound like they'd be great together, and just by having a lunch like this, I feel I'd be doing something to help pacify class warfare by getting both the proletarian sandwich and the capitalist cocktail to the table together.

Marxist theory would suggest a slight change in vocabulary: rather than capitalist, you should state bourgeoisie. In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie was the social group opposed to the proletariat in the class struggle.

Comrade Cathy,

Yes, see but then I'd lose the alliteration on "capitalist cocktail." Henceforth, I'll make sure the vocabulary of my analysis is "correct," however I have always tended more toward Mao's version of Marxism: "The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie."*

And of course, the point could be made that the polarization of our country and the world into extremes of rich and poor is eliminating what used to be considered the bourgeois middle in the Marxist model.

But, really, let's get back to the food

David "Nothing if not petty" Hammond

*"Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society" (March 1926), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 13.

Tvarish

I was just having fun with our bits of obscure knowledge. So the next time someone orders a "CC Manhattan." Instead of Canadian Club, I will think Capitalist Cocktail.

Yekaterina Karlovna

David:

Perhaps we can have our alliteration and eat our economics accuracy too. To wit: bourgeois beverage

Or join the Capitalist Cocktail Consumer's Party...
CCCP.

total tangent but:

hamburger 12
wood grilled with french fries, horseradish slaw and homemade pickles

you know... i wonder if this is really 4x better than the $3 Carl's Jr. Restaurant style burger...

I, too, can't associate a martini w/ a sloppy burger as I hate finger prints / greased mouth prints on my glassware