The place I went to today was brilliant. I found out about it on the internet, described as "The Best Burger in New York". The burger was damn tasty but it was the place itself that I really enjoyed. "The Burger Joint" is its name and it's hidden inside a Hotel called Le Parker Meridien. This place is posh - the staff all nicely dressed in suits, bell boys scuttling about with suitcases and doormen calling down cabs for the hotels guests. I actually walked into the lobby twice as the first time I was convinced I'd gone to the wrong address. After asking someone at the front desk they directed me down a small passage way, curtained off to the public. You could stay in this hotel for a week and not even notice it was there. Down the passage was a crowd of burger hungry paupers like myself all queuing to enter a small and very secret little burger bar.
When you enter it's like you've stepped into a completely different world from the fancy hotel outside. If you take your food to go it's given to you in an unmarked brown paper bag, and you walk out feeling quite smug, knowing you've been part of this little secret hidden in plain sight.
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