Boston Burger Company is now open

[ron_newman]

Boston Burger Company is now open in the space formerly occupied by Antonia's, next to JP Licks. Contrary to earlier rumors, they did not expand into the former Breathe Spa space next door; that is still vacant.

Their web site appears to be BostonBurgerCo.com. They have menus posted outside, but the menus do not list the URL. That may be just as well, since the menu on the web site is far too small to read easily (at least, for someone my age). I would e-mail them, except that the Contact Us page contains only directions, and no actual contact info.

EDIT 5:15 pm: Here's a link to a fully readable image of the menu. There's also now an e-mail address on the Contact Us page.

EDIT 4/7, 8 pm: Here's a link to a fully readable image of the menu. Dear Boston Burger Company: please don't move it again.

Comments

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

If you view the menu image on its own, it gets up to "barely legible". ;-)

(In Firefox, right-click on the image and select "View Image".)

[ron_newman]

My second link is directly to that image, and I'm looking at it in Firefox, but I still can't really read it. Firefox is not offering me the "+ cursor" to enlarge it further.

[narya.livejournal.com]

The directions page does have a phone number, but I suppose talking to whoever happens to be behind the counter is unlikely to be useful.

[gilana]

If you find an email address, you might also want to point out that they're offering directions by public transit to "Boston Curger Co".

[ron_newman]

Eventually I found their e-mail address here (scroll down about halfway).

To be fair, they haven't advertised this web site anywhere, so they probably don't intend for anyone to be looking at it yet. I found it purely by guesswork.

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

The menu IS Barely readable if you enlarge the image.

They have a "artery clogger" which involves chicken-fried burger and bacon, "The King" which involves peanutbutter, bananas and bacon (on a burger??? EWWWW) and a conch burger.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

IDK about bananas, but the peanut-butter-on-a-burger is awesome.

[unferth.livejournal.com]

For me, the automatic zoom cursor doesn't show up (I think that only shows up when the image is too big to fit in the window and has been scaled down) but you can still zoom in with control-plus. Or the 'Zoom In' command under the View menu, Zoom submenu.

It's blurry but legible when zoomed in a few ticks. At least for me. Not really a good format for online presentation of a menu, but I guess it's better than nothing.

[ron_newman]

I'm not seeing any of that, so I guess I need to upgrade my work computer from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3.

[bex77]

Thanks for the info!
We eat out in Davis a lot of nights due to theater stuff, so it's great to have a new option.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_meej_/]

I'm not at all enthused by the fact that they have a $1 surcharge to substitute a veggie patty (or turkey) in place of the standard beef burger.

That, and the "Terodactyl" wings.

[aquaflame16.livejournal.com]

this. I was curious whether they'd have veggie at all, glad they do (obv. it remains to be seen whether they are any good . . . ) but quite disappointed to see the surcharge. That's discouraging. (I realize it's probably a scale purchasing thing, but meat's expensive, right? Shouldn't a veggie burger be cheaper for them?)

[ron_newman]

I agree. I've never seen such a surcharge anywhere else.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't a veggie burger be cheaper for them?

And what's weirder is that the veggie burger with their pre-selected toppings is cheaper -- so it costs up to $2 more (price difference for normal burger + surcharge) to get it with some other selection of toppings. Is reaching for the mushrooms instead of the avocado really that hard?

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

I looked at their menu earlier today and was shocked to see that veggie and turkey are $1 more than angus beef. I know that some places charge LESS for a veggie burger but have never seen $1 more.

[cos]

The + appears when you're viewing an image that's larger than your browser window, so your browser automatically scales it down to fit within the window. You can click to toggle between viewing it at its real size (click +) and back to the scaled down view (click -). If the image is small enough to fit in your browser window at its real size, no such toggling is needed, since you're seeing the image as is anyway. You should still be able to scale the image (which will make it larger but also blurry). I think that's cmd-+ on most Mac browsers, and maybe shift-+ on PC browsers, and it should be in one of your menus (on Safari it's "make text larger" in the View menu).

[ron_newman]

I'm on Linux with Firefox 2, and don't see those options, but I'm not going to worry about it any further. I've e-mailed the WHOIS contact to suggest they need to make the graphic larger and more readable.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

nope, it's just teasingly close to legible. My eyes are going buggy because I can just make out the shape of the letters, but not really. So I feel like I *should* be able to read it. Good idea to email the whois contact, hopefully they'll put up a PDF or something else far more useful :)

[teko.livejournal.com]

Other items of note:
• They will apparently be serving beer and wine.
• A side of fries is $4? A side of sweet potato fries is $7!?
• "South Western Egg Rolls"?

[moireach.livejournal.com]

I'm really baffled that the sweet potato fries are $6 (or $7, but I have no idea what the difference is between the two types) when the burgers themselves are about $8. It's just such a weird price proportion, you'd expect either the fries to be cheaper or the burgers to be much more expensive. What kind of burger place has fries that are almost 90% of the cost of the burger? It's too bad, because sweet potato fries are awesome.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

It's too bad, because sweet potato fries are awesome.

And you just illustrated why they charge more for them - demand.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

No, I understand charging more. I don't understand charging *that* much more, given the general pricepoint of the rest of the items.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

It's a specialty item, they probably figure they can get away with it, especially now that redbones DOESN'T do sweet potato fries.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe, but don't Johnny D's and the Joshua Tree have them? [eta: Looks like Johnny D's are $7 too. It's an evil conspiracy!]

Also for interested parties, Four Burgers in Central has sweet potato fries for $1.50 for a small, $2.50 for a large.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

it's harder to fry sweet potatoes to the right consistency than it is for normal potatoes, due to the higher sugar levels in the; longer frying time equals more money spent on making them, equals more cost to you.