HIGH ON MUSHROOMS
The Dish
We love it when we go in for one story but come out with another. Kinda like how Seftel will rip-a-place and then give it four stars.
Wait, it’s not like that at all. It’s just Friday and we’re feeling feisty.
Take a look at the happy hour menu at Fleming’s. Pretty sweet deals for a place that caters to expense accounts and big nights out, right? Everything on it is six bucks until 7 o’clock. There’s a burger made of ground Prime New York, about half-a-dozen slices of seared Ahi, and lumpy crab cakes. There’s even five cocktails and five glasses of wine – all for six bucks.
But turn the menu over and there’s a list of burgers. On a whim, we went for the Portobello Mushroom Burger and, craziest thing, it had us pushing away the one made of meat. This feeling of veggie-love being new to us, we had to ask Chef/Partner Steve Butler a couple questions.
He keeps most things secret, but agrees that the $10 portobello is the greatest thing on that menu. It actually tastes like a burger, yet as he says, “it comes from the ground.” So while the “5 for 6 ‘til 7” happy hour is certainly newsworthy, that burger is a bona fide headline stealer.
*sample menu — the wines are known to change from time to time.
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