Happy Valentine’s Day, here’s a miniature burger

The mini food trend has hit BA and I hope it doesn’t stick. BeFrika, on the corner of Junin and French in Recoleta, is the first restaurant to serve higher class gourmet hamburgers, and they are tiny as hell.  I guess the concept is trendy, gourmet, fast food, miniture sizes? The menu does include some things that aren’t easy to find, a wide selection of licuados (smoothies), milkshakes, iced tea, lemonade, brownies, cookies, and I guess some good mixed drinks too that some “famous” bartender at Green Bamboo created who is kinda a big deal. As for food, there are a number of inventive hamburgers, chicken burgers and vegetarian options called tini-minis. This type of “fast food” comes in a little box..kind of silly to serve each one this way (and somewhat wasteful in this eco-friendly green world we live in) as the food is not fast, it took about 25 minutes for 2 mini burgers. Each order (2 tini minis) runs about AR$20-24 pesos, but there is also a special promo for AR$35 that includes 2 teeny weenies, fries and gaseosa or cerveza.

This is a happy meal containing a Frankie and Johnny burger (cheddar, pancheta and bbq sauce) and Green Cooper (panceta, provolone, roasted red pepper, and pesto), fries and a quilmes beer. I also ordered a peach iced tea that was really good, made with real peaches and not a cavity-amount of sugar. The Frankie & Johnny was probably the better choice of the two and the fries were awesome, thick crispy starchy steak fries. For the price, I was expecting some fancy aioli or seasoned mayo – just regular ass packets of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.

Two seconds later everything gone. Not the right place to go while hungry. Overall, it was good – but the portions were too small for what it costs.

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