Jacob is home for Christmas. Mike is still in Atlantic City. So, Jacob and I decided to go somewhere close for dinner. He was looking at reviews online and asked about The Tattooed Dog. I had totally forgotten about this place. Mike and I had been there several times when it was still in an old building in Wentzville. Then about 4 years ago it moved into a new strip mall close to 70 and Hwy Z. The new place has a very industrial feel...corrugated tin, metal chairs on polished cement floors...branded wood tables, etc. It is mostly gourmet style burgers and sandwiches.
Jacob got a Maui burger. It had grilled pineapple, swiss cheese and a wasabi/terriyaki glaze and roasted garlic aioli and spring greens served on a pretzel bun. I tasted it, too. We agreed...the pineapple is super yummy but it kind of takes over the taste of everything. Neither of us could taste the heat of the wasabi or the terriyaki. We got the garlic in the aioli but mostly it was just pineapple and hamburger.
I got the Perzola burger. It has butter poached pears, Gorgonzola creme sauce, white American cheese, and spring greens served on a pretzel bun. The pears were sliced thin, which was good, as they didn't overwhelm the taste...like Jake's pineapple did. The Gorgonzola sauce was SUPER yummy. I think the American cheese was totally unnecessary as you couldn't taste it because of the Gorgonzola sauce.
Both burgers were served with seasoned fries. Jake and I both commented that they were really nice fries. They were seasoned well. Sometimes seasoned fries are so overly seasoned they don't even taste like fries. These still had a nice potato taste.
About the pretzel buns...
About 1/2 of the burgers here are on pretzel buns and about 1/2 of them are on Kaiser rolls. The pretzel buns are kind of dense. I get using them with the 2 "fruit" laden burgers, but the problem is...they are an actual pretzel knot. They want to fall apart at the seams and that makes the burgers a pain to eat. Either use Kaiser rolls, or find pretzel buns that are actual buns made out of pretzel dough, so they'll stay together.
I don't know why Mike and I stopped coming here. The food was good. I'll come back.
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