Not Quite Kobe: Sliders at Blue Sage
Barclay Prime put the slider on the map in Philadelphia, with its luxe Kobe mini-burgers, but several years later the trend is still going strong. The baby burgers still pop up in gastropubs and fine dining rooms alike. I have seen crab cake sliders and lobster roll sliders, and just this week I tasted a new take on the idea: vegetarian sliders. And no, I didn’t find them at Horizons, the city’s mock meat market.
I was at the Blue Sage in Southampton, where the kitchen turns out vegetarian cuisine with an emphasis on actual vegetables. No seitan or tofu here. So what are these meatless and soyless burgers made from? They are based on smoky roasted eggplant, crowned with Maytag blue cheese and perched on a petit brioche bun. Even my carnivorous, eggplant-averse husband ate them with gusto and wished for more.
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