I'm Crazy for Crazy Burger!

I really am crazy for Crazy Burger Cafe and Juice Bar! This smallish restaurant in Narragansett, Rhode Island is home to some of my favorite food. They have an amazing breakfast menu as well as the widest variety of burgers I've ever seen. According to www.crazyburger.com they’ve "got lamb burgers, hamburgers, VEGAN burgers, salmon burgers, chicken burgers, turkey burgers and sometimes even ostrich and buffalo burgers!!" The first time I ever had ostrich was at Crazy Burger, and it was great. The second time I had ostrich was in Switzerland.

So J and I vacationed on Block Island back in July and stopped into Crazy Burger on our way home. Well, it wasn't really on the way home, but we stopped anyway.

It was raining and cold out - I know it was July, what's up with the cold rain? - so I ordered a cappuccino, which was really a latte, but it was good, and so was the chocolate cookie that accompanied it. And the mug was cool.

I also ordered a bowl of their vegan corn and sweet potato chowder which was good but slightly under seasoned. In addition to the corn and sweet potato, there was also leek and red pepper in the soup; with the proper seasoning this soup would have been very good.

For our entrees, J and I both got burgers. I got the Jerky Chicken Burger. A freshly ground chicken breast burger with Jamaican stylings, served on a bolo with jerky mango mayonnaise. I chose Crazy Burger's BANGKOK SLAW for my side. It's a mix of savoy and napa cabbages marinated in soy, ginger and lime. The burger was excellent, cooked and seasoned perfectly, and the slaw was a perfect mix of sweet and sour lending itself well to the spicy chicken burger.


J chose the Hummabouli Burger, the best of the Middle East in a soy pita with hummus, tabouli and roasted eggplant and served with lemon-tofu mayonnaise. J chose the BALSAMIC BEAN SALAD for her side which is a dish Great Northern white beans in a balsamic vinaigrette, also very good.


In addition to the Bangkok slaw and balsamic bean salad, Crazy Burger also offers house cut french fries or sweet potato fries with the burgers for an additional dollar.

Whether you are in the area or not, make it a point to head down to Narragansett, Rhode Island for lunch or dinner at Crazy Burger. They offer a wide selection of freshly made juices, great burgers and sandwiches, excellent breakfast/brunch fare, and a very nice patio out behind the restaurant for the nice warm summer New England days. They have excellent entrees as well, you will want to go back often to try out their entire menu.

Crazy Burger Cafe and Juice Bar is located at 144 Boon Street in Narragansett, RI.

I'm still eating....

Where have I been? Tuesday's Tastings have been absent for months. Restaurant and neighborhood reviews have been missing for just as long. All this really means is that I haven't had time to write. It doesn't mean that I haven't been eating out and trying new products from Trader Joe's freezer case. In fact I have, quite a bit.

I rode in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge on August 4th and 5th; a 192 mile bike-a-thon raising money for Cancer research and treatment. I rode my bike nearly 1,500 miles over the summer months while training and burned thousands and thousands of calories doing so. That means I've been eating, a lot! Especially on the weekends when I might burn six or seven thousand calories from cycling alone.

So where have I eaten? Well I posted about my dinners at Great Bay in Boston and Rendezvous in Cambridge. I've also had dinner at Via Matta, Michael Schlow's third restaurant, I've had drinks at Cuchi Cuchi and Excelsior, sushi at Sushi Man in Chestnut Hill, and lots of great food at Big Fresh in Framingham. And of course lots of pizza from my favorite pizza place, Goody's, also in Framingham, the cheese-less veggie special.

What's new in my freezer from Trader Joe's freezer case? How about some buffalo burgers, they were great; and Dr. Praeger's California Veggie Burgers, they were also great, especially on a toasted whole wheat english muffin with tomato, sliced avocado and dijon mustard. I'll post complete reviews soon, I promise.

I also started a new job at the end of August that brought me to the other side of the world. I spent a week and a couple days in Chennai, India. Here's a taste:

Breakfast,

Lunch,

and Dinner

I'll be sure to write more about India, too. The food was amazing, the people friendly and welcoming, and the flights from Boston...REALLY long!

Stay tuned, One Food Guy will be back soon with plenty of new musings on food.

Jinius, this post's for you!