Burger & Barrel Restaurant Review:
Chef Josh Capon and the restaurateurs behind Lure Fishbar have teamed up to bring SoHo a burger joint. The name says it all: a menu of creative hamburgers with a long, globe-spinning wine list. The Bash Style Burger, named because it took top prize at a local food and wine burger bash, might be the most alluring variety of burger on the menu: it comes with American cheese, caramelized onions...
"Trendy" burgers, "barrel beers" and "wine on tap" collide in a "high-energy" setting at this "happy" SoHo gastropub from the Lure Fishbar folks; sure, it's "loud", with "lighting so low you can barely see your food", but its "cool", cost-conscious crowd considers it fine as is.
A sister restaurant to Lure, Burger and Barrel does for meat what its older sibling did for seafood. This is modernized classic comfort food -- burgers, short ribs, pork chops -- cleaned up and elevated by chef Josh Capon.
The awesomeness of Lure Fishbar’s burger has been an open secret for years, so spinoff joint seems a natural progression. “Winepub” is the aspiration, with a chalkboard menu and top-flight comfort food. Burger comes in four forms, with signature combining caramelized onions and bacon jam. Short rib ravioli, roast cod, and fried Cornish hen, too. Low-pretense touches like shot and a beer...