The hamburger -- once simply a staple of the all-night diner and the drive-in -- has become one of the more glamorous foods of the millenium. The Parisian-inspired Westport Cafe & Bar puts a Gallic spin on its burger so that it can hold its own with the more sophisticated dishes on the bistro menu.
Westport Cafe & Bar owner serves his burger -- grilled from certified black-angus beef -- on a brioche bun baked at Farm to Market Bakery, with a molten slice of Gruyere cheese and caramelized onions. It's the best all-American burger you'll ever find in a French-style bistro.
Our list so far:
No. 50: Chocolate Malt from Fox's Drug Store
No. 49: Il Parma from Bella Napoli
No. 48: Italian sausage and eggs from Cascone's Grill
No. 47: Orange Roll from Clock Tower Bakery
No. 46: Tacos de cochinita from Frida's Contemporary Mexican Cuisine
No. 45: Barbecued pork bun from 888 International Market
No. 44: Tableside fresh mozzarella from Jasper's
No. 43: Gyro Sandwich from Mr. Gyros Greek Food & Pastry
No. 42: Apple strudel from Grunauer
No. 41: Rice noodle bowl from dim sum at Bo Lings
No. 40: E-Crush from Hi-Hat Coffee
No. 39: Flight of Freshness from Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones
No. 38: Curried chicken salad from Cafe Provence
No. 37: Apple fritter from John's Space Age Donuts
No. 36: Pollo con limone e olive from Lidia's Kansas City
No. 35: Wedding-cake cookie from LattéLand
No. 34: Stroud's cinnamon rolls
No. 33: Smoked Polish from Werner's
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Hello,
Thanks Fat City for naming us favorite dish No. 32!� (burger and frites) here at Westport Cafe & Bar.� During the first few weeks after we opened we indeed served fries out of a bag. However, we have listened to the people and have been peeling, slicing, blanching, and frying all of our fries in house ever sense. NO sulfites and sulpher dioxide here. We're serving plain old Idaho potatoes!
How do we do it? Peel/Cut Idaho potatoes into 1/4" fries, brine overnight in salty water, blanch at 270 for 4 minutes, cool, finish at 360 until golden brown. Toss with sea salt!
We don't serve curly fries. Sorry, Steve V you were in the wrong spot. We hope you make it back soon! We're located at 419 Westport Road.
Best,
-WC&B-
Juanita, thanks for the correction, i was seriously wondering what people were thinking. I will check out the real Westport this weekend.
to Steve V--I think that you ended up at the Westport Flea Market. You were on the right street, but you needed to go further east. Try again.
Frozen fries can be very good if properly fried. Westside Local's Garlic Fries are right from Restaurant Depot, but they are wonderful.
Perfectly fried, every time.
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Just another average hamburger. After hearing all the hype about the best burger in KC I made the drive last Sunday. Parisian-inspired, Gallic, really, is there more than one Westport caf�the one I went to was more Midwest dive bar meets garage sale, not that there is anything wrong with bar food or garage sales, I�ve had some really good bar food and found a deal or two at the latter. While the burger/bun were good, the Sunday I visited they were serving curly fry�s. Good food, not great food and hard to believe it made the favorite dish list.
I guess what I'm saying is that what I had last night bears little resemblance to the fries in that photo. I don't know if it's the weird perspective of a cell-phone picture or if they have indeed "stepped up their game."
Sorry DLC, Faith is absolutely correct about the spuds! Aaron needs to up his game and serve the real thing.
You obviously don't miss what you never had.
Pommes frites are made with fresh cut potatoes and twice fried at two different temperatures. Aaron serves a frozen product loaded with sulfites and sulpher dioxide and sprayed in the factory with a sugar solution for easy browning. Nasty! Easy for a lazy kitchen but nasty. Unless things have changed since that photo was taken, those things in the photo are what I experienced on two different occasions.
It must be a quirk of the photo, Faith. Westport Cafe does indeed serve frites, I had them last night. They were very very good.
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