My alma mater, Butler University, didn't fare so well in the NCAA championship game on Monday night, but Kansas City's Blanc Burgers + Bottles -- owned by chef Josh Eans and Ernesto Peralta Jr. -- scored all the right points: For the second year in a row, the upscale burger bistro won the burgerbusiness.com Burger Bracket competition.
Fans of individual restaurants and national chains voted on the burgerbusiness.com website. Blanc Burgers + Bottles, which has two locations in the metro, received more votes than such national chains as Red Robin, Hardee's and Wendy's. A year ago, Fat City's Jonathan Bender reported how Blanc also had won the 2010 Burger Brackets competition.
Last year, Eans and Peralta celebrated their first win by offering special slider burgers at both Blanc locations as a two-day special. This week -- on Friday and Saturday only -- Eans is introducing a new special burger in honor of the second Blanc win.
"It's an Oscar burger, based on the classic Steak Oscar," says Eans. "It's a half-pound grilled Kobe patty topped with jumbo lump crabmeat, grilled asparagus and a chilled aioli created from traditional bearnaise sauce. We're serving it on a rosemary brioche bun."
The new burger will be priced at $18, and Eans is eager to get customer feedback on the sandwich because he's thinking about adding it to the new menu, which is scheduled to be introduced in a few weeks.
"We're dropping the surf-and-turf burger," says Eans, referring to the $21 lobster-topped burger that was introduced at the Plaza Blanc location. "We didn't sell a lot of those burgers in Leawood and just a fair amount on the Plaza."
Eans says he was surprised that Blanc Burgers + Bottles won a second time at the burgerbusiness.com competition. "I was pretty thrilled that people came out and voted for us again."
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So, I discovered Blanc on the Plaza several months ago. Since then I would easily say we've driven down from Liberty at least every 10 days for me to have a Gluten free burger. Their burgers are easily the best I've had and the "Kneaded Specialties" gf buns just was the icing on the cake. Well today's experience was really saddening. The waitress today suggested a daily grind special which was supposed to be a smoked blue cheese burger. I of course ordered it on a gluten free bun. The burger arrived and looked tasty but after a couple bites I knew something was wrong. The kitchen made a mistake and put a Barley burger on a GF bun and sent it out to me. A person that is gluten intolerant...... When I called attention to something not right it was taken away immediately. A mgr was then at our table saying they had taken the burger off our bill....gee...I barely ate it. A companion complained that in the grand scheme that wasn't much compensation she then seemed miffed and came back with 60% off. I realize I take a risk every time I eat out but I was so saddened because of how I loved this place that I made a comment on their facebook page. I wasn't rude.... I said I loved them..... I just relayed my disappointment at the error. My post was removed without even a comment... This disappoints me even more......
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