Allen Burger Venture … yes, please

Out on the town Thursday, following my first visit to Hotel Henry, sustenance was required.

I’ve heard so many good things about Allen Burger Venture but hadn’t had the opportunity to venture there yet. (See what I did there?) Let me just start by saying that Thursday may have been my first trip there but it will NOT be my last.

Walking up, the place is packed — inside and out — and there’s a bit of a line at the door. Nothing overwhelming, mind you. And it moved quickly. I think we waited maybe all of 10 minutes to get a table. It was, after all, 7 o’clock on a Thursday. Busy was to be expected.

There’s tater tots in there. And they were awesome.

Since we had drinks at 100 Acres at Hotel Henry, we switched to good old-fashioned pop at ABV. RC Cola. She had root beer. And we ordered: Loaded tater tots to start, followed by a #2 for her (Beef on Weck Burger) and a Chimichurri Burger for me.

The tots came first and we kind of regretted ordering burgers. Seriously, these were both awesome and awesomely filling. They had what appeared to be homemade tater tots with pulled pork, jalapeno peppers and other tasty bits, with melty Monterey Jack cheese on top. There’s also a version that has two sunnyside-up eggs on top.

Just as we finished the loaded tater tots and decided that neither of us could ever eat another bite of food again, the burgers came. And … we didn’t want to disappoint the staff by not eating them. I mean, the staff had been so nice and helpful. So …

Chimichurri Burger from ABV. On their special menu.

So I had ordered the Chimichurri Burger, in part, because +Juda Nevadomski had posted a Grilled Dinner And Chimichurri recipe to All WNY News about a year ago and we had a discussion about me needing more chimichurri in my life. It having been nearly 12 months since and me not having added said chimichurri, I felt it was almost an obligation, really.

Imagine the ingredients from the aforementioned tater tots (minus the tots themselves) on a burger … with chimichurri sauce. Yeah. That was my burger. And it was delish.

Her burger included New York state cheddar, caraway seeds and horseradish aioli. It came with au jus for dipping. It looked brilliant. I can’t say how it tasted.

All burgers come with fries. They were salted — but I added more, of course.

In all, the bill came to $54 — which is a bit more than I’m used to paying for a couple burgers. But totally worth it.

And in the end, the YouTubers below actually paid for them. Here’s a roundup of some videos that popped in the past 24 hours or so … voiced by yours truly:

First up, we’ve got a pair of videos by Did You Know. I was voicing videos for them here and there. I had mentioned previously that one of the videos I’d voiced had 1,000,000 views. The rest of their videos used a computer generated voice. Going forward, I’ll be voicing all their videos — three per day. Their channel is growing really rapidly and I expect to see them get their first 10,000,000-view video soon.

1) This Elephant Survived A Poaching Attempt. Then Vets Noticed Something Weird: