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Two of our favorite tweets about Tommy Up vs. Trey Popp
Later this afternoon, we'll be posting a Good Word Q&A with City Paper restaurant critic Trey Popp, who's stirred up a bit of a shitstorm with his recent review of Tommy Up's P.Y.T. You'll have to wait till then for Trey's take on this "issue," but in the meantime, we'd like to share two of our favorite Twitter updates touching on it, courtesy of @tylersnotes and @adamerace:
Two of our favorite tweets about Tommy Up vs. Trey Popp
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Later this afternoon, we'll be posting a Good Word Q&A with City Paper restaurant critic Trey Popp, who's stirred up a bit of a shitstorm with his recent review of Tommy Up's P.Y.T. You'll have to wait till then for Trey's take on this "issue," but in the meantime, we'd like to share two of our favorite Twitter updates touching on it, courtesy of @tylersnotes and @adamerace:
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good job tyler baber. well put. this whole thing has been dumb since the beginning. tommy up's challenge with square burger was a good move, funny and a smart marketing ploy. when he started getting people to compare butcher and singer's burger to his, eh... not so smart. does he even think steven starr cares? and now making excuses like "california" style vs. "east coast pub" style??? what a douche. i am a huge fan of in and out burger and well done little "california" cheeseburgers may be my favorite and PYT's is simple not that good. buns not toasted, burger is dry. up is a club promoter and PYT is a club. he made friends with bart blatstein and had an opportunity to open something because no one else wanted to rent from bart. successful restaurateurs know that consistency is the key to success and up has only been consistently loud. i've eaten 3 burgers from PYT all of them mediocre. no heart, no soul just a way to make money and be cool. up is a douche.
What people are seemingly naive to is the fact that the burgers at PYT were actually developed by Josh McCullough of Time. McCullough's cooking is superb, but his absence from PYT's kitchen after opening week has created some real consistency issues. After all of this hub-bub, I think it would behoove Up to bring McCullough back into the kitchen a little more often for extra supervision and training. In regards to the California vs. East coast burger thing (phillygreg), I think you are missing the point. The PYT burger is deemed a California style burger because of its size, 5 ounces of beef a top a Martin's potato roll. East coast burger refers to the absurdly behemoth patties of 10 and 12 ounces, on enormous brioche rolls that have become the norm over here.
[...] this page was mentioned by Roland Bui (@rolbui), Ben Kessler (@kessler), tommyup (@tommyup) and others. [...]
How is a Martin's potato roll "California"?
nope, sorry ben, not missing the point at all. if you read what i wrote you would realize i know exactly what a "california" cheeseburger is and that they are probably my favorite. im actually tired of the giant steakhouse style burger. PYT's just isnt very good. thats the problem. nice of you to come to up's rescue though. and as for the josh mccullough issue youre talking about. i can see your point and maybe the burgers arent as good as the designer wanted them to be, fine. but wasnt up the one tweeting about how great the burgers are at pyt? wasnt he challenging square burger? gettting people to compare them to butcher and singer? sorry ben, you ever heard the expression that excuses are like assholes? everyone has them and they all stink. up's excuses stink and so do his burgers. sorry ben, im tired of our great food city changing to a pr game. it's bad for food. i say top 3 burgers in this city are the royal tavern's, south philly taproom's and good dog's. and i dont think up's is the worst i just dont deem it anywhere near the best
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