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Daily Grill - Bleu Burger with Bacon

Thursday, March 25, 2010

In 2008 the Daily Grill opened in downtown Tulsa in the hotel currently known as Crowne Plaza right across from Starbucks. Daily Grill is an offshoot of the parent that started in Beverly Hills with around a dozen Daily Grills now residing in California and another eight spattered around the US. While Daily Grill is upscale, it is also very approachable and comfortable.

Being located in downtown Tulsa, within easy walking distance to the BOK Arena and the new Oneok BallPark, Daily Grill will be a viable option for your dining pleasure. Being located adjacent to the 52 floor BOK building owned by Williams also makes it very convenient for my lunch time excursions. On this version of Joe’s Burger Search I went with three friends/coworkers.

Having frequented Daily Grill multiples times with each experience being very good, I was looking forward to sampling their Black and Bleu Burger that was on their online menu which stated being stuffed, yeah stuffed, with Bleu Cheese and cracked black pepper and topped with a Bleu Cheese Mayo and served with their amazing Onion Rings - right up my ally. After we were seated, I was surprised to not see a Black and Bleu Burger on the menu. The waitress quickly confirmed. Being set on Bleu Cheese no matter what, I picked the CheeseBurger cooked to medium, which states “Choice of Cheese” - guess which I picked. As I frequently do, I also added bacon. Another in my party (can I say party since its during the work day?) ordered the Pepper Bacon Burger which is topped with double Cheddar Cheese and Bacon with a Thousand Island Dressing medium rare. One other ordered the CheeseBurger with Cheddar Cheese well done. Our last patron in our party picked the Parmesan Chicken Caesar Salad. Since I do work with her I decided not to make fun of her.

On all of my trips to Daily Grill they have done an outstanding job of cooking my burger to the desired temperature and this trip was no exception - see picture of the medium rare burger below. The burgers are half pound of 80/20 angus beef cooked on a grill, seasoned with salt and pepper. The beef flavor comes through on this big burger very good. Even with bleu cheese and bacon you can still taste the beef. The bleu cheese was very good, not being too powerful but also not being to weak to notice. When I first received the burger I was a little surprised that the bacon was chopped up but this ended up being a really big advantage being that the bacon would not just pull out in one bite and also ensured bacon in every bite. I’ll have to remember this in the future at home. The burgers come with a choice of Slaw, Shoe String Fries, or Fruit - I went with Fries while fruit was picked by several others. The Fries are good, not great, but good. I really like shoe string fries but noticed that they cool down really quick and I’m sure me taking pictures doesn’t help. Luckily since my order did not come with those amazing Onion Rings, we decided to get an order for the table. The rings come with a crazy great bleu cheese sauce that is a mixture of bleu cheese and mayo. The onion rings are bread crumb crusted and fried perfectly. The onions were sweet and did not slide out on each bit. And that bleu cheese sauce just added to the experience. The others that ordered burgers were very impressed with theirs also. A special thanks to the server for her great service and the manager, Kenneth Scudder, for not freaking out when I started taking pictures and being so nice to visit on the restaurant. Till next time...

Bacon and Bleu Cheese - Oh My

Cheddar & Bacon Cheddar

Great looking Medium Rare I don’t know what that green stuff is

These Onion Rings with the Bleu Cheese dipping sauce is amazing!!!

Rating Criteria
Cook to Order: Yes
Type: Grill
Thickness: Thick
Notes: Upscale restaurant
Burger Cost: $10.95
Burger: 8 of 10
Fries/Rings: 8 of 10
Other: of 10
Final Word: Don’t pass on the Rings

Name:

Daily Grill

Address:

100 W. 2nd Street

Tulsa, OK 74103

918.295.7748

Hours:

Su-Th 7am - 11pm

Fr-Sa 7am - 12am

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