Enjoy Pop Sauce In-House or To-Go At Lexington Candy Shop

90-year Upper East Side, Manhattan, NYC diner and luncheonette Lexington Candy Shop is the newest place to not just offer the newest standard of condiment, Pop Sauce™, on their counter and table tops to enjoy with their perfectly executed "throwback" diner menu items such as hearty breakfast dishes, classic sandwiches and their spot-on burgers — including their nationally famous Butter Burger — but diners who enjoy it can as well purchase their own bottles at the tony luncheonette to take home as their very own.

On the inaugural day of Pop Sauce being available at the diner — having won over co-owner Bob (pictured) with the sauce's unique taste, I introduced a friend to her very first visit to the neighborhood fave, she enjoying her Pop Sauce on a grilled cheese on bread bread and I on a double-decker fresh turkey, swiss, and bacon club sandwich.

Lexington Candy Shop

1226 Lexington Ave.
(at 83rd St.),
New York, NY 10028
(212) 288-0057

 

Of course Pop Sauce paired very well with both sandwiches (ample sized enough that we knew we wouldn't have room for their perfectly crispy-on-the-outside, airy-on-the-inside shoestring fries), and we can't wait to hear what Lexington Candy Shop dishes future diners — maybe even you, if you're local — enjoy their Pop Sauce on. 

Enough maybe even to buy some right there and then to bring to their own kitchens.

The (Off-Menu) "Pop" Burger Debuts at Milk Burger

One of our all-time favorite burger places, East Harlem's Milk Burger, has just opened its second outpost, on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx. And not only are they featuring Pop Sauce on their tabletops, but only those "in the know" can order the off-menu (not listed on the regular menu) "Pop" Burger, a double cheeseburger with grilled onions, sliced pickles, and your favorite new standard of condiment.

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The "Pop" Burger is only available — for now — at the Bronx location, but Pop Sauce is available now at the Bronx location and soon followed at the East Harlem location.

So order you — or two if you with a friend — or any of the other burgers, sandwiches, fries, and/or salads that Pop Sauce also goes deliciously with.

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Milk Burger (Bronx) *
148 Bruckner Blvd., Bronx, NY 10454 (Corner of St. Ann’s)
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The "Pop" Burger: Where It All Started

Shortly after I came up with the first recipe for Pop Sauce (just to have a condiment at home to put on whatever food I had delivered), I was curious to see what more public opinion of it would be. Lucky enough, I was one of the managers at the restaurant I lived directly over, and had for years created dishes for the restaurant's menu, many of them burgers.

One of the burgers I came up with was the "Pop" Burger, which originally consisted of a thick beef patty, dry-rubbed with salt, pepper, and brown sugar, grilled to temperature, and topped with a slice of grilled onion, American cheese, pickles, and that early recipe of Pop Sauce I had taught the kitchen staff how to make. It immediately became the best-selling burger besides their classic burger, and it signaled the first ideas I had that Pop Sauce could have more commercial appeal.

Four years later (and a perfected-for-wide-appeal recipe later) I still make my "Pop" Burger, this time with two "squished" (thinner) patties, flattop-seared burger patties, seasoned with just salt and pepper — as the Pop Sauce recipe's flavors are now more "robust" — and the same grilled onion slice, bread & butter pickles, and American cheese. I serve them at home with hand-cut vinegar fries (handcut, skin-on potatoes soaked/brined in water-vinegar solution, then double deep-fried on my stovetop), that Pop Sauce, of course, goes deliciously with as well. 

Martin's Potato Rolls are the perfect match for nearly any burger, and work perfectly on the "Pop" Burger, as Pop Sauce itself goes perfectly on any other burger as well. I just think that Pop Sauce deserves a burger of its very own.