A colleague from out of town was visiting recently, and she wanted nothing more than to go to Abattoir and sample every squiggly bit of offal in the house. Alas, we could only meet for lunch, and the slaughterhouse is now closed midday. So we kept driving up the street and ended up at Flip Burger Boutique.
As it turns out, this a fabulous place to take out of town guests for these reasons:
- It no longer has that insane, last-plane-out-of-Saigon crush of people waiting outside. But it still buzzes loudly.
- Everyone who follows food doings knows of Richard Blais and approaches the menu with some sense of context.
- The food is still really good.
In fact, the food is better than ever. The menu has undergone some revisions, and the lineup of burgers, sides and milkshakes are more interesting and varied than ever before. The kitchen has also made the admirable decision to shift almost entirely to grass-fed beef (excluding the Wagyu meat in some of the high-ticket burgers). This …