The Black Frog

Guest Panelist: Emily Oja




I gotta say that the Black Frog is one of my favorite pubs in Vancouver. It is right at the end of Cambie, just before the railroads and has a terrific view of Canada Place (which, incidentally, changes colours at night).

So, my guest panelist for the day was Ms. Emily Oja, a fantastic dresser and champion speed-knitter (you should see this shit...it's just a whir of yarn, sweat and incessant 'klacking'). She is an expert because she watches the food channel a lot. Only, her day-to-day culinary exploits rarely go beyond Kraft Dinner and '2 liters' of chips (courtesy of Tom), but whatever.

The burger: Despite the fact that our server was a vegetarian, she was very helpful in answering the question I had for her. The chef told her (and I'm sure he said it with a look of total disbelief) that the meat in the burger was 'ground meat' - ok. Thanks, man. So, I'll call it chuck.

You guys, this burger was amazing. It had the regs and a pretty good sun dried tomato may (no pickles, which was momentarily disappointing). They couldn't do it medium rare but it maintained it's magical beefy juices. I put cheese and mushrooms on mine (a buck extra each, but worth is) and it was so frigin amazing I fell of my chair 4.5 times. It is huge, it has a sog barrier, they serve it on a GRILLED, WHOLE WHEAT BUN...WTF? I am in awe of this mastery of burger-making. They don't charge for Caesar salad instead of fries, either.

Emily had pretty much the same reaction. She started running around the bar and showing the other customers her burger and made them smell the inside. It was inappropriate but funny.

So, yes...do eat their burger. They Kill.

My Rating: Shut up, I'm making love to this burger, can't you see that?

OH, AND I AM GETTING A CAMERA, I PROMISE