TEXASTESTOSTERONFESTIVAL.com-  The Texas Testosterone Festival and Last Gas Comedy recently asked comedians Chris Cubas, Joe Staats, and Jake Flores to attempt to eat Bikinis Bar and Grill’s Big Buckin Burger. Below is the Preview video as well as the Full video documenting their attempts to consume the behemoth burger. Hilarity ensues.

Eating the Big Buckin’ Burger is required to qualify for Come See Grown Men Cry at Bikinis Sunday August 9, 2009 at 3:00 – 5 Minutes, No Eyeglasses, No Noseplugs, Who can Eat the Most Raw Onion? with a $200 first prize. Come See Grown Men Cry is hosted by Ruby Collins (Funniest Person in Austin runner-up) with Special Guest Levi Oliver, former Tamale Eating World Record Holder.

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Cubas, Staats, and Flores join Collins on the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour beginning at Red 7 (7th and Red River in Austin) on Friday, August 7 and finishes up with performances at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Waterloo Park in Austin November 7 and 8.

This place looks too good to be true…burgers AND bikinis??? Thats like an adult Chucky Cheese with beer!  This owner knows that he is doing.  Maybe our mailbag friend LobsterClaw and Big Dave know a little something about this place…Looking pretty good ladies, go easy on the burgers.  Those things will go straight to your hips.

Tucked away off of Carmine Street is a local favorite, Mr. Dennehy’s, and Irish Pub and Restaurant and home of a terrific burger.  Mr. Dennehy knows how to do it up right and make his burgers screaming green, white and organ…Celtic style.  The Mr. Dennehy’s burger is prime beef topped with sharp cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and piled up with Rashers (Irish Bacon).  If you haven’t had Rashers you don’t know what you are missing.  Think Canadian Bacon, thinner, better natural fatty flavors and a salty kick. I once made a “Mancation” to Ireland playing golf.  My dish of choice at the cottage’s breakfast buffet everyone morning was a Rosie O’Donnell sized plate of Rashers.  This is a close as it gets to the taste of the ole Emerald Isle.  Check it out sooner than later

63 Carmine Street (at 7th Avenue) West Village

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HOUSTONCONEWS.com- La Crescent-Hokah Elementary (K-5): Mon. 10/26 B—French toast stix. L—Cheese dunkers or Chef Boyardee ravioli, broccoli, fruit. Tues. B—Egg 7 cheese sandwich. L—Chicken patty, cheese quesadilla, peas/carrots, fruit. Wed. BnCinnamon roll. LnChicken nugget or meatballs and gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, fruit. Thurs. B—Mini chocolate chip pancakes. L—Sausage pizza or corn dog, California blend w/cheese sauce, fruit. Fri. B—Cinnamon tastries. L—Mac-n-cheese, sloppy joes w/Tostito scoops, corn, fruit.

La Crescent High School (6-12): Mon. 10/26 Big Daddy’s pizza, chicken nuggets, pork chop patty, cheeseburger, build-your-own sub. Tues. Stuffed crust pizza, stromboli, hot ham and cheese, spicy chicken, build-your-own sub. Wed. Big Daddy’s pizza, chicken wraps, grilled cheese with tomato soup, rib-e-que, build-your-own sub. Thurs. Stuffed crust pizza, walking taco, bacon cheeseburger, spicy chicken, build-your-own sub. Fri. Big Daddy’s pizza, hot dogs, Italian chicken, fish nuggets, build-your-own sub.

St. Peter’s School: Mon. 10/26 Cheeseburgers, fries, corn, fruit. Tues. Chili, crackers, bologna or turkey sandwich, cheese slice, carrot sticks, fruit. Wed. Tacos, lettuce, tomato, cheese, fruit. Thurs. Baked turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, fruit. Fri. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, squash, fruit, pumpkin bars.

Remember those SAT questions that you need to find similarities in a sequence of words, phrases or numbers?  Well this is no brain buster to find the similarities in this County’s school lunch menu for this week.  Cheeseburgers, Cheeseburgers, Cheeseburgers!  Those lucky little ankles biters…I wish my parents still paid for lunch and I was served up cheeseburgers by the lunch lady downstairs at work every day.  By the way, what are “cheese dunkers” (above).  Throw them on your burger little dudes and dudets.  Its free…milk it!

NYMAG.com- The neon sign reads corner, a nod to the deli that preceded it, but that’s just a colorful ruse. If La Esquina is as much stage set as restaurant, that’s because it’s owned by Serge Becker, the designer and nightlife entrepreneur behind such hipster loci as Bowery Bar, MK, and Area. The counter-service taqueria on Kenmare dispenses tacos and tortas (made, unfortunately, on baguettes instead of proper Mexican teleras), and a more extensive menu is served at the adjacent café around the corner, a double-height room with recessed shelves full of books and old record albums. A cool tomatillo-avocado soup was refreshing and mildly spiced, and the char-grilled string beans called ejotes do wonders for an oft-overlooked, overboiled vegetable. Authentic as East Harlem? Maybe not, but the chicken tacos are tasty and the prices surprisingly gentle for a neighborhood straddling the Soho-Nolita border.

Although the Mexican cuisine and vibe are outstanding don’t be fooled that what lies beneath is a burger to be reckon’ with.  On the Corner of Kenmare and Lafayette lies one of the premier taco stands in the NYC.  However, walk through the quaint little joint, through the kitchen and down the stairs to an underground restaurant with a dynamite menu and a top ranked burger.  Yes, that’s right a burger.  Dibble and dabble with some salsa, guac, elotes, mole sauce, etc. but do not let your mexican tastebuds flare without dropping the hammer on the hamburguesa.

114 Kenmare (and Lafayette Street)

BRANDWEEK.com- Burger King’s carte du jour got a bit meatier this week when the fast feeder announced the addition of the quarter-pound Double Cheeseburger to its dollar menu. The $1 promotion is set to run through March 31, 2010.

BK plans to rotate in new spots through the promotion’s March 31 end date. In-store signage will also tout the Double Cheeseburger’s value over its competitors.

Two things.  #1 Is it really $1 or some crock of beef like $1.38? #2 Wake me up when the burger actually looks that good. Until then ditch the chain, get on the NYC train and use your burger brain….

5280.com- What Makes it a Classic: The ability of this super-casual burger-and-sports joint to flourish in tony Cherry Creek North endears it to bar-loving Denver-ites. But it’s the outstanding burger and fries that draw in customers from every walk of life: families, couples, barflies, the chi chi set, the sports fans—and everyone in between.

Did You Know That: A strong-willed woman named Mary Zimmerman opened the original Cherry Cricket as Mary Zimmerman’s Bar in 1945.

Just the Facts: The Cricket serves up more than 3,500 burgers every week—182,152 patties in 2008. That’s a lot of cow, folks.

From what I hear from locals and folks who have passed through Denver, this place is a burger bullseye.   Some call it their local Sports Bar, some call it a “dive”,  some will call it their neighborhood version of Cheers and some will even call it a Cougar cage.  But, they all would agree that this is one of the best burger joints going and as a resilt and has drawn national attention.  If you missed it’s 15 minutes of Fame on Man vs. Food, its worth a look on youtube to see what you are missing.  At Duffy’s, “Dart” is the word.  Patrons throw them against a dart board to pick their various toppings.  Looks like fun and supposedly tastes even better!

Burger Boy,

Tucked away in upper-westchesters Somers/Purdy’s, NY, the flock of rednecks and i-bankers alike come for a cold one and a burger off The Blazer Pub menu. Fixin’s, once again, are strongly unencouraged at a hole-in-the-wall bar like this gem. Take a bite, enjoy the juicy tenderness, and be sure to pick the rest of the melted swiss cheese off your plate as you’ll be begging for more.
Word around town is that at the Burger Boy, fat juicy buns that melt in your mouth is just what the doctor ordered so come with expectations of glory.
“Cash-Only” shindigs? Say what you like but we dig stuffing our greasy change back in our pockets round here…So take the trip North on 22, keep an eye out for the Four Leaf Clovers painted green in the middle of the street, and grab another burger for the ages.

Yours Truly,
Matty-Boy Yannocone

Matty Boy,

Thanks for writing in!  BB always encourages hole-in-the-walls and cash only establishments (if you know what I mean).  Looks like some good looking bacon and much respect to those who serve Porters (pickles) on the side.  Nicely done.

-BB

URBANDADDY.com - Ladies and gentleman, this is the Hog Pit.

No, seriously, it is.

Or at least it was.

The spot’s still offering a raw brick chaser to the MPD glitz, but that’s where the similarities end. Bill’s is serving up burgers and shakes instead of shots (unless, you know, you want shots), and you’ll be able to make your way through it without a bodyguard. So when you stumble in for that 4am last call, you’ll find two rooms of diner-style black vinyl seats, pressed-tin ceilings and a scene almost as bustling as the one you just left.

As much as we are sad to see the Hog Pit go (I once couldn’t hold it and used the ladies bathroom…) we are glad to see a fresh face in this common Meatpacking hang out.  The location is perfect to take breather from the club scene and get down and dirty on some BBQ and beer.  I am now thrilled to see a burger joint take its place and offer up buns and suds (hamburger buns too!).  I promise to only drop the kids of in the designated men’s powder room..promise. Gotta be Sly!

19th and 9th Ave (Meatpacking)