We’ve been to the Angus Barn a few times – Nixon’s family has treated us for his birthday dinner. Definitely not a bad deal. It’s always been a satisfying experience, but not one we could afford to have in any sort of regularity.

Well, I just happened to be reading Chowhound on Friday, and saw that instead of dining in the main dining area, you can dine up in the Wild Turkey Lounge. Most importantly, you can order the Angus Barn Burger.

I told Oak about this and obviously he was very interested. When he got paged when we were just about to go to dinner at Assagio’s (our second attempt at eating there), we had to go home. Well, we still had to eat dinner… That’s when we decided on trying out this burger.

The Wild Turkey lounge is just really cool. There’s all sorts of old relics (which, if you read the Angus Barn website, you learn are the old owner’s collection of Turkey decanters), and comfy chairs. Plus there’s a bar where you can get the cheese and crackers, and relishes that normally come with your meal. Seriously if we wanted to we probably could have just ordered drinks and filled up on that stuff!!

I ordered the spinach salad that I’ve always adored when we’ve gone in the past. It was good as usual with the warm bacon dressing (tasty salads never seem to be healthy ones!). Then the burger came. Oh, hooey. Well, the waiter had just assumed (correctly) that we were going to split it, since it’s over a pound, so it came out on two plates. They use up all the pieces of meat they can’t use anywhere else, like the ends of the tenderloins, etc. in the freshly ground beef. I think it was the juiciest burger I’ve ever had!

Next time we might get the ostrich burger, the famous creation of chef Walter Royal when he was on Iron Chef America.

Posted by Carrie on Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Categories: around the triangle, blog, restaurants · 2 Comments »