teak neighborhood grill
I've been asked on added than one break (twice, I think) about the accord amid all the Teaks and RusTeaks about town, so let's get that out of the way: Brian Buttner and Jonathan Canonaco, a brace of Culinary Institute of America grads, opened the aboriginal Teak Neighborhood Grill in MetroWest aback in 2010. Again they opened the actual gastropubby RusTeak in 2012, afterwards which RusTeak College Park anon followed in 2014. Additionally in 2014, Buttner and Canonaco awash the aboriginal Teak Neighborhood Grill to Chris Meyer and Jon Proechel. Got it? (Oh, one added tidbit to digest: Buttner and Canonaco additionally run the Stubborn Mule.)
Now then, I absolutely enjoyed the burgers, beer, and all-American acclamation of the Meyer/Proechel-era Teak and said so on these actual pages in November of aftermost year. Naturally, I accepted added of the aforementioned at the afresh opened Teak Neighborhood Grill in Maitland. It's in the old RanGetsu amplitude and, like the glossy Japanese resto it supplanted, it's huge. Sure, it's been accustomed a absolute make-under for the burger-loving, beer-guzzling, sportsballs-watching army (there's, like, a thousand TVs inside), but the ample alfresco space, a acceptable allocation of which is covered, offers a somewhat beneath absonant atmo. The airheaded in MetroWest and Maitland are identical but execution, we anon came to learn, wasn't.
A brace of pan-seared backtalk cakes ($12) we ordered resembled scallops at first, so wee they were in annular stature. The filler-heavy pucks absolutely fell afar afterwards acid into them, but it's not like our added amateur of best – Thai chili craven wings ($10 for 8; $13 for 12) – captivated up any better, at atomic not to scrutiny. The meat on the so-so wings and drumsticks was dry to the bone, and the booze accepted added arid than racy.
But, really, burgers were our focus and aboriginal up was the "Imperial Trooper" ($12) served on a brioche bun with mozzarella, tomato, and bounce mix that my dining associate ordered medium-well. The patty seemed like it had been on the accepting end of a Stormtrooper's blaster burglarize – it was adapted to a actual well-done, but the aggregate of acerb cream-chive booze and a Guinness stout coat was, mmm, done well. No complaints with a ancillary of fat onion rings; additionally with added abandon like chili cheese fries, candied potato tots and coleslaw.
Overcooked meat bedeviled two added burgers, about – a candied and compact half-pound cronut burger ($13) with maple-pepper bacon, smoked Gouda and over-medium egg, and the "Drunken Monk" ($13). Both were ordered medium; both came out well-done. The closing alloyed Angry Orchard onion jam with broiled blooming tomatoes, smoked maple bacon, assemble mayo and provolone cheese. The crisis of potato chips and broiled white cheddar central the pretzel bun gave the burger some above heft, admitting boilerplate abreast the arduous applesauce of the "Teak Challenge." That's offered for a reasonable $45, because it's awash with two pounds of beef, 27 slices of cheese, 24 slices of smoked bacon and God knows what else. Finishing it will acceptable get your mug on a bank or some such thing.
At the added end of the spectrum, the vegetarian "Eggplanter" ($10) was a textural fail. For one, the breaded eggplant wasn't crispy, but mushy. Plop breaded doughy eggplant, broiled mozzarella and garlic-cilantro booze in a brioche bun and, well, you'll acceptable aloof move on to dessert. Allow me to advance a sharable balmy amber credibility with boilerplate bean ice chrism ($6).
Perhaps the best cogent aberration amid the two Teaks is the address in which we exited. Thoroughly satiated, we lumbered out of Teak MetroWest; in Maitland, we were larboard acquisitive for article better.
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