After the planning fail mentioned in the previous post, Alex and I decided to raincheck our Flip, a new upscale burger boutique that is the brainchild of Richard Blais, of Top Chef fame. This place seems to have pretty wide appeal, only about half of the menu is burgers that are red-meat in origin; and consequently many friends who are vegetarians or not typically meat eaters have shown an interest in checking it out. I’d highly recommend everybody check it out.

We tried a number of different items on the menu; they had a sweetbread special, the remnants of you can see at the top of the photo on the left. I ordered two burgers, a shrimp special that they were offering that evening, and the steak tartare burger which, in looking at the menu before coming is what I was looking forward to trying. The shrimp burger was good, but not “the greatest thing ever.” I would not go so far as to say I was disappointed, it defintiely exceeded my expectations of what a shrimp burger should taste like, but… I’m a sucker for red meat, especially when it comes to having a burger. The steak tartare burger (which I ended up eating later in the evening because I filled up on everything else at dinner) was delicious. Also, I need to take a moment to talk about the milkshakes at Flip, yes, they are all nitrogen cooled and come to your table looking like some sort of witches brew, but the selections they have are pretty unique. They have a Krispy Kreme one that tastes like drinking donuts, as to be expected, but also have some specials like Nutella and burnt marshmallows, or if you are daring enough there is a Foie Gras milkshake as well. That may sound somewhat heinous at first, but keep in mind the texture of foie gras lends itself to a milkshake pretty well. Moreover, the fact that half of our meal consisted of organ-meats between ordering sweetbread and foie gras, flavor-wise it was on point with everything else we had made. Anybody who can make organs taste as good as typical cuts of meat is doing an excellent job. One more point worth noting about Flip are the fries. Hands down the greatest I’ve ever had (sorry In-N-Out), they are literally fried to perfection, not masking too much of the original potato flavor, and never soggy — and the homemade smoky mayonaisse really puts them far and away above any other I have had up until now.

It isn’t all Romanesquey dining in my life however. Musically, this weekend is one of the busiest times I have had since the end of October; I have two big events coming up both this evening and Saturday night as well.

Tonight is the fourth installation of the Bass Recreation Society event we have been doing as a part of rightClique. For those of you who don’t know this is a party focused around bass-heavy music that we do at The Atlanta Bench, a graffiti boutique and gallery in downtown Atlanta. We’re quite excited about the line-up for this week; we are showcasing a lot of talent outside of our own circle of friends, and beginning to highlight some talent in Atlanta that are people that we have been following for some time. It always feels nice to share some of what has influenced myself with other people. Will and I will be performing again doing our two-laptop dubstep thing that we’ve decided to call Crookhaven for Bass Recreation Society tonight.

Additionally, we have been invited, along with our good friend Inferno, to open up for a party Euphonic Conceptions is doing with Ludachrist at The Apache Cafe tomorrow. I love having multiple back-to-back shows like this. Hopefully I will see you out at one or both!