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This, for me, straight up stole the limelight from their more famous Cheeseburger.
Stacked tall and proud, Au Cheval’s Fried Bologna Sandwich ($17.95) features extremely tasty bologna (pronounced as “ba-lo-nee”) that’s made from scratch in-house using Berkshire pork. The buns are softest pillows, sinking deep first beneath fingers, then teeth. Together, they are a powerfully delicious combination that weakened my knees and got me whimpering.
If there is one thing you must eat at @auchevaldiner, I’d say it’s this.
“Au Cheval” is a restaurant styled like an upmarket diner that originated in Chicago and reportedly serves one of the best cheeseburgers in America (“Bon Appetit” declared theirs the best in America in 2012). So reading that they were opening in New York a couple of months before I was due to travel there, was music to my ears.
We visited on our third day in New York and were very pleased with our meal there. We ordered their famous Single Cheeseburger (weirdly enough, it has two thin patties despite its name) and topped with a fried egg (total: $19.95), plus a side of fries with garlic aioli ($8.95) with it.
Yes, the burger was really good and I enjoyed every bite of it but the skies didn’t open and the angels didn’t kick in with a hallelujah chorus like I thought it would. The Fried Bologna Sandwich however, is an entirely different story, and I will be sharing about that in a separate post.
