Bobby Flay gambles on New England
The restaurateur/Food Network dude/cookbook author is opening two restaurants in partnership with Mohegan Sun. Bobby’s Burger Palace and Bar Americain are scheduled to open in summer 2009.
Burger Palace, natch, offers an array of burgers; they're inspired by Flay’s travels through the US. I want the Crunch Burger, with double American cheese and potato chips on the burger! (Big fan of potato chips actually inserted into sandwiches; apparently any burger here can be "crunchified.") As for Bar Americain, it's the second branch; the first one, in New York, is an "ode to regional American cuisine," serving steaks, buttermilk fried chicken, duck with dirty wild rice, etc.
They sound like solid concepts. The real bet is on the casino industry itself. With people gambling less due to the recession, it's in trouble.
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