Joshua Tree Cafe
Joshua Tree Café
805 Edmonton Tr. N.E.
Burger : Blue cheese burger ($7.99) — a homemade beef patty topped with a mustard-mayo spread onions tomatoes pickles lettuce maple bacon mushroom sauce and garlic butter all on a toasted bun.
Sides : Side salad.
Atmosphere : Joshua Tree is an inviting café complete with couches. It’s a little bit more than a coffee shop but not quite a full-on restaurant. There is also a gift shop selling greeting cards and the like.
Menu : Open for breakfast it also serves sandwiches burgers paninis salads and a wide variety of caffeinated drinks tea and fruit slushies.
Decision : I suspect a lot of thought was put into the design of this burger way more than I anticipated when I arrived. The mustard-mayo spread mushroom sauce (derived from a balsamic reduction I believe) and well-seasoned patty worked together to create a fairly complex burger. The produce was fresh and the open-faced presentation of the burger was visually pleasing.
The blue cheese was used sparingly enough that it added value to the whole package without stealing the show. It was a demonstration of restraint that I appreciated. Blue cheese can overpower pretty much anything but that didn’t happen here.
All of the sauces combined in each bite with the residual liquid ending up in a goopy sticky mess on my plate and all over my hands. A handwashing was needed at the end of this meal but that’s not a deal-breaker in my world. This was a damn fine burger.
Next Up : Bocavino Lounge & Grill 2220 Centre St. N.E.
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