Philadelphia restaurant sets 'Gold Standard' with $700 burger

UPI ^ | MAY 19, 2023 / 12:15 PM | By Daniel J. Graeber

[Red Badger]

Philadelphia's Drury Beer Garden is offering a $700 burger featuring Wagyu beef, caviar and an ounce of cognac. Photo courtesy Drury Beer Garden/Facebook

May 19 (UPI) -- What's covered in gold, costs $700, weighs 8 ounces and is edible in Philadelphia? Answer: a hamburger.

At the bottom of the main page of the menu at the Drury Beer Garden in Philly is not a cheese stake, but a burger. A very, very expensive burger.

For $700, you can get the Gold Standard. That's a Wagyu meat burger with caviar, fresh black truffle, lobster flambeed with gold leaf, topped with aged Irish cheddar and drizzled with honey.

Fries are included. As is a 1 ounce pour of Louis XIII Cognac, which fetches around $5,000 a bottle.

George Tsiouris, a co-owner of the beer garden, was quoted told local news station NBC10 the Gold Standard is about the joy of cooking.

"We are excited to provide our guests some amazing, creative and tasty options with our new menu concept," he said.

Tsiouris, however, said nothing of the gratuity that would come from a tab that included a $700 sandwich, though a 20% gratuity is added on to parties of six or more.

[Red Badger]

And a scoop of the $6K ice cream from yesterday...............

[HartleyMBaldwin]

A “cheese stake”, eh, Daniel? Oh well, it passed spell check, so it must be right.

[IamConservative]

I am a pass even if free. Might scrape all the crap off and taste the beef, but won’t expect anything as good as you can get at about any icehouse in Texas for $10 or less.

[Magnum44]

[PGR88]

Wagyu is just exquisitely marbled beef steaks. The Japanese have a very refined palate, and in their own style, set about to create something which is highly refined.

To their credit, when they prepare it, they do NOT pile tons of sh** like caviar, sauce, bread, etc on top of it.

[moovova]

No thanks. I’ll stick with Pat’s or Geno’s steaks.

[cowboyusa]

Yuck, those 2 are horrible.. Delesandros, Mama's or John's Roast Pork.

[Carriage Hill]

It’d better come with extra-superb FIVE GUYS Fries, or it’s a loser.

(No, I wouldn’t eat that $700 crap sandwich. I’d rather get a Dbl-Cheeseburger, with fried onion, mushrooms, tomato, lettuce & mayo, and Large Fries from FIVE GUYS, for $16.)

[Joe 6-pack]

John Kerry will take two.

[telescope115]

I would choke on it…

[Openurmind]

Only to an idiot...

[mabarker1]

[mabarker1]

Real Burger (((PING)))

Time for a ROAD TRIP to Texas...

[SamAdams76]

It’s almost a crime to have fries with that.

[Red Badger]

Fries are extra......................

[Fzob]

I think the gold standard applies to identifying the highest level of stupid willing to pay 700

[GaltAdonis]

I'll skip the gold plated caviar burger.
Just give me a cheese steak, please.

[Vaduz]

Check

[j.havenfarm]

I love historic Philadelphia. I spent three days there, my 7th trip, last fall. Cheesesteak for every lunch and dinner while I was in town