![]() Petersburg, and in a parking lot off 49th Street folks are drinking beer and talking cars. I do hope to go back someday.It’s Friday night in St. Which is unfortunate, because I want them to succeed as well. I've heard that the restaurant is under different ownership now, and recent reviews say that the food is not as good as it used to be. I liked my meal, but I haven't been back because I'm not often on that side of town. I was impressed with the Vintage decor and I'm glad to see that most of it is still intact judging by the photos in this post. I finally visited Biff Burger about 10 years ago when I moved back to the area. Growing up it wasn't my parents kind of vibe, so we never went there, but I remember many times passing by when I was growing up and seeing the crowd outside. So I'm excited to see it reviewed on your channel, even if not by Zap himself.īiff burger has been known to host car and motorcycle rallies for as long as I can remember. Just to be safe, though, I think I’ll check their inspection record before I try the next time.Īs a St Petersburg native I had thought about submitting Biff Burger for review by Broken Chains, knowing only from family Recollections that there were once many more Biff Burger restaurants located throughout Florida and the southeast. I am, however, going to wait for a time when they’re hopefully better-staffed and recovered from the pandemic-influenced stupor so many of us are only now starting to emerge from. I believe there’s a place in this scene for a straight-forward, unpretentious burger joint. In part, it’s because I desperately want to see classic and under-appreciated brands like this succeed. At the same time, I want to give Biff-Burger another chance. If you want recommendations, I’ll give you several within a 15-minute drive of Biff-Burger. If you want buzzwords around your “sandwich consisting of one or more cooked patties of ground beef inside a sliced bread roll or bun” like “wagyu”, “prime”, “akaushi”, “artisanal”, I promise you don’t have to go far around here to get it. Petersburg is awash in high-end burger options among the multitude of great dining experiences - both high-end and low-brow - in the city’s relatively recent emergence as a food center. ![]() The BIFF (“Best in Fast Food”) in Biff-Burger, alas, turns out to be a DIFF. It is among the most disappointing fast food experiences I can recall that’s a low bar to hurdle, too. The coleslaw is simply tasteless generic mayonnaise with cabbage for texture. The tater tots, while seemingly cooked for an appropriate amount of time (though I might prefer them to be a bit crispier) are cooked in oil that may be stretched out approximately three changes too long. If I had to venture a reason for this, I’d guess it’s that the Roto-Broiler is calibrated to cook the bigger patties used in the larger, specialty burgers, and these smaller patties simply don’t stand a chance. The so-called “Biff Sauce” that such burgers are supposedly dipped in after cooking does nothing to restore any moistness. The patty on the Cheese Biff is probably about 2 oz. Unfortunately, that’s where the graciousness allowed by the otherwise nostalgic or understandable deficiencies comes to an end. I’m after a straight-forward burger experience. My interest in making this journey isn’t in the bar, the bar-b-que, or in the myriad of possibly interesting architectural tales and bespoke design decisions of the property, however. Looking rightward reveals the results of what must have felt like an inexorable march of long-term changes: an enclosed dining room (that is likely not actually part of the original building I’m no architectural or interior design expert, but it feels different than the rest of the building) a covered porch dining area a long, covered bar that incorporates a line of palm trees into the corrugated metal awning and another small free-standing building that advertises the “other” dining feature: Buffy’s Bar-B-Que & Catering (topped with a kitschy-in-a-good-way replica of a “57 Chevy”). Judging by the pictures on the website, the building appears to have once been Biff-Burger’s “Port-A-Unit” from the early 60’s, pretty heavily modified over time to create enclosed space. It’s underlined by a red and white metal awning. The lovely red, white, and blue diamond-festooned gable is as inviting as any feature I can recall for a burger joint and it hints at what one must hope would be an era-appropriate interior. The original building (or, at least, what I believe must be the original building) is intact.
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