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Frankenthal (Pfalz)

Steak-frites is a pan-seared or grilled beef steak served with a pile of fried potatoes, the house dish of the French and Belgian brasserie and the one by which most of them are judged. Both countries claim it, Belgium with the stronger case for the frites and France for the sauce culture around the meat. The cut is rarely a premium one: entrecôte is the classic, but bavette, onglet and faux-filet are just as traditional, chosen for flavour and chew rather than tenderness, and a bistro that lists filet is usually trading on the name. The sauce varies by house and region: béarnaise in most of France, a pepper sauce in the north, maître d'hôtel butter in Paris, and in Geneva the Café de Paris butter sauce that a handful of restaurants built an entire menu around. Dedicated steak-frites restaurants serve nothing else and bring the frites in two rounds so the second batch arrives hot.

The steak is cooked hard and fast. It comes out of the fridge early, is dried and salted, and goes into a very hot pan with a little clarified butter or oil, or onto a grill, for two to four minutes a side depending on thickness and the order; French kitchens take bleu, saignant and à point seriously and cook a bavette no further than saignant because it toughens. It rests for five minutes before cutting. The frites are the Belgian method whether or not the kitchen admits it: a floury potato such as Bintje, cut to about ten millimetres, rinsed, blanched in fat at around 150°C until soft and pale, cooled, then fried a second time at 180°C until golden and crisp. Beef dripping is the traditional Belgian fat and still the best; most French kitchens use vegetable oil. The frites are salted the moment they leave the fat.

Judge the two halves separately and then together. The steak should have a dark crust, be cooked as ordered from edge to centre, and release a little pink juice rather than a grey pool; the sauce should be a small quantity on the side or on top, not a flood, and a béarnaise should taste of tarragon and reduced vinegar, not of warm mayonnaise. The frites should be crisp outside, fluffy inside, salted, and hot when they reach you, which means fried to order and not held under a lamp. Mark down a steak cooked beyond the order, an unrested steak bleeding into the frites, thin fast-food style fries or frozen ones with a uniform coating, a sauce from a packet, and a plate where the frites have gone soft under the meat. A green salad is the only acceptable third element.

Steak-frites

Brauhaus zur Post

Konyak soslu steak. Menüde gördüğüm her alkollu şeyi deneyeyim dedim. Sos başta güzeldi tadı 8di ama yedikçe tadı 6lara kadar düştü. Etin daha iyilerinden yemiştim porsiyonun büyük olmasının dışında pek bi esprisi yok

Türkiye

Tavuk Döner

Mekan Kebap Döner Haus.pizzeria

Saat 22’de yenen dönere göre tadı iyi tavuklar biraz zor sert löp diye yutulmuyo ama saat 22 döneri için gayet iyi. Zaten şehirde o saatte açık birkaç yer var. Restoranda çalışan adamla türkçe konuşarak sipariş verebilirsiniz döner içindeki salata da ehti ama et miktarı fazlaydı karnımız fazlasıyla doydu 

A patty of ground beef cooked on a flat griddle or over a grill, served in a soft round bun with some combination of onion, pickle, lettuce, tomato, cheese and sauce: the burger has been built that way for over a century, and most of what goes wrong with it still happens at the griddle. It is an American dish with a German-sounding name: the Hamburg steak, a seasoned patty of chopped beef, was on menus in New York by the 1870s, and the bun arrived somewhere in the Midwest around the turn of the twentieth century. Several towns and fairs claim the first one and none can prove it. What is not in dispute is that White Castle in Wichita standardised the small griddled patty in 1921 and that the drive-in chains of the 1940s and 1950s made it the most widely eaten sandwich on earth. On BiteCritic the burger is rated as a dish, so a smashed diner patty and a thick pub burger are judged by the same questions: meat, cook, bun, balance.

The meat decides most of it. Chuck at roughly twenty percent fat, coarsely ground and handled as little as possible, gives a loose patty that stays juicy; lean mince packed hard turns into a dry puck. Seasoning is salt and pepper on the outside just before cooking, because salt worked through the mince tightens it like sausage. The two methods produce different burgers. On a hot flat-top the patty is smashed thin for the first thirty seconds so the whole face browns into a crust, cooked two to three minutes a side and flipped once; over a grill a thicker patty is left alone until it releases, then flipped once and taken off between 55 and 60°C at the centre for medium. Cheese goes on for the last minute under a lid or a splash of water so it melts. The bun is toasted cut-side down in the fat.

Pick the burger up before you judge it: it should hold together and not slide apart, and the bun should be soft enough to compress but not collapse. The crust on the patty is the first thing to look for; a grey, steamed surface means a cold or crowded pan. Inside, pink is right for a thick patty and irrelevant for a smashed one, which is cooked through by design. The bun should be warm and toasted, never cold or stale, and the ratio matters more than the size: a tall tower that needs a skewer is a presentation choice, not a better burger. Mark down dry meat, a patty that tastes mainly of seasoning mix, cold cheese sitting unmelted on top, soggy bread from untoasted buns or too much sauce, and lettuce doing the structural work. Fries are a side, not part of the score.

Burger

Zum Elefanten

Eti beğendim, domuzlu bacon beğendim, birayı beğendim, etin üstündeki peyniri beğendim. Almanlar burgeri bıçakla yiyo ayyynen kankalar en çok siz medenisiniz. Yemek güzeldi mekan doluydu keşke her gün gelsem danke schöne

Rank	Place	Top dish	Reviews	Score
1	Zum Elefanten Neumayerring 2, 67227 Frankenthal, Germany Top dish: Burger	Burger	1	8.791 review
2	Mekan Kebap Döner Haus.pizzeria Wormser Str. 22, 67227 Frankenthal, Germany Top dish: Tavuk Döner	Tavuk Döner	1	6.961 review
3	Brauhaus zur Post Neumayerring 45, 67227 Frankenthal, Germany Top dish: Steak-frites	Steak-frites	1	6.671 review

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