The “Bill’s vs Shake Shack” debate is all the rage in hamburger circles, especially in light of New York’s review of the newcomer this week.  I was enthralled by Bill’s burgers the first time I ate them, and I still am.  The combination of the loose, juicy meat with a salty lace-like crust that extends like an Elizabethan collar beyond the […]

One happy accident of working at the gloriously postmodern IAC building is its proximity to Bill’s Bar and Burger, the new smashed-burger mecca in the Meatpacking district. Of course, this was Bill’s first lunch service, so things were a little hectic, and took a couple of minutes longer than when I was there by myself […]

The day has long gone when Bill’s Bar and Burger was my little secret, based on an advance press tasting at Blue Fin last month. Now everybody is sky-high on the place, but it’s not just a handful of feinschmeckers like myself, George Motz, or the Hamburger Today guys – tonight the place opens to the public, […]