[What You Should Order At...] Korzo

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses. When the mood strikes, we pick one Park Slope resto and recommend our favorite dish. Are we right? Are we wrong? YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.

It's a scientific fact that everything on the planet is WAY better when it's been deep fried. N.A.S.A. SCIENTIST TRUTH. I'm fairly certain that I once saw something on the History Channel about it. JK. The only thing I've ever viewed on the History Channel was something about aliens & Jebus. HISTORY. Also a bunch of Nazi stuff.

But seriously though, after the discovery of fire back during early Geico-pitchman days, deep frying is the best cooking technique that ever happened to humans. FUCK SOUS VIDE.

Way back in early 2010, we positively gushed over the art of deep-fried Robicelli's cupcakes. Right here on Park Slope's 5th Ave, Chip Shop deep fries the shit out of stuff for a living. One of my fave things to nosh on at the annual 5th Ave Street Fair is deep-fried Oreos. Has Fonzy perhaps long since leapt over that proverbial culinary shark tank as far as deep frying goes? Probably, but fuck if I care. I say bring it on.

At Korzo, on 5th Ave way down in what is pretty much the South Slope these days, their whole thing is deep-fried burgers. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another place with deep-fried burgers in the entire city. As such, a few months back, the Travel Channel's "Burger Land" featured Korzo's deep-fried burger. Safe to say, it's not that much of a secret. But it's good.

My Korzo jam is the B'klyn Beet ($15), which is a deep-fried roasted-beet-walnut-black-eyed-pea patty with baby Gouda, caramelized onions, "pickled something" & greens. Shit is RIDICULOUS. For starters, the breading is way better than you might expect, about as far as you can get from the texture of say, an egg roll from a dirty Chinese spot. Said breading acts as a shell for the whole burger without adding a flavor that's all Andy Dick-level greasy & in-your-face.

The burger comes cut in half, which is key because deep-frying shit makes it HOT & I'm a dumbass who's prone to burning his palette. If you've bred, this cut-in-half technique might be a helpful thing for your spawn. With each bite, you get a mouthful that's led by the sweetness of the beets and complemented by everything else. My only complaint is that, with the exception of the greens, the non-beet ingredients are definitely there but they sort of get lost in the mix. As far as those greens go, sure there's a little element of crunch there but YAWN.

Regardless, the B'klyn Beet is damn good & therefore the only thing (other than the rosemary fried halusky) that I've ever ordered at Korzo. For me, there's really no need to change things up. EXTRA BONUS: Colorful morning poop.

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