Nice Matin -- Upper West Side -- NYC

201 W 79th Street
(between Amsterdam Ave & Broadway)
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-6423
www.nicematinnyc.com/


The Five Napkin Burger was once my favorite burger in all of NYC.  Now, not so much.  The quality fell off of a cliff.  Nice Matin is a lot like Neal Stephenson--great for about a decade and then a swift transistion into unpalatable.  Sad in both cases, because were fantastic. I can always re-read Stephenson (anything up to and including Cryptonomicon), but I can't go back and enjoy a Nice Matin burger from the good days. 

Before:  aged, juicy, firm, awesome.  

Now:  bland, greasy, insipid, mealy, WEAK.  

In general, someone needs to call a code on Nice Matin--it's just walking around dead and catering to tourists from the attached Lucerne hotel.  Maybe the talent all rushed of to 5 Napkin Burger---the chef's burger joint in another part of the city. Who the hell cares--the burger sucks at Nice Matin, and they should be ashamed of what they've done to the reputation. 


Keep in mind that the carmelized onions are greasy and will only contribute to the overall blandness of this once good, now crappy, burger.

Thank GAWD that the West Branch is open just a block a way to fill the high-end burger void.

Burger Review : Avoid this avalanche of blandness.


Rating...2 Bites