The Burger Temple — Restaurant in Weehawken

Cute place. Too bad. The woman behind the grill is everything wrong with this place. She looks miserable and looks like she doesn't want to be there. She is also unfriendly but that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is that she uses the same gloves to handle the buns, lettuce and tomatoes that she uses to flip burgers and handle all manner of kitchen objects. You don't have to take my word for it, just go there and watch her work. It's disgusting and she clearly could not care less. So I gave it a chance anyway and ordered a burger. It was tasty. The flavor was not the issue. I'm not lying within 30 minutes I had to drive home. That's the problem with using the same gloves. Cross contamination will make you sick every time. Was I deathly ill? No. But I had to run home to the bathroom and that effing sucks. Absolutely disgusting. Instead of including 4 types of condiments with one hamburger maybe teach your cook about food safety. No excuse. Avoid like the plague until the kitchen worker is taught to change gloves or else fire them. I understand she is doing the work of more than one person but gloves are plentiful and inexpensive. She should be changing them regularly. The place has potential but this is a clear case of one employee causing an entire business to be doomed. This was early in the day as well so it's not like it was the end of her shift. Get her loose vinyl gloves they are extremely inexpensive and come on and off easily. The ones artists use. That's the best advice I can give. Either that or do what ecery other respectable burger place does hire a separate person to dress the burger. Again, don't take my word for it, watch how many times she changes those black...

Definitely a instagram cutesy spot; as in good for the pictures, but the food was definitely lacking.

The jugo de guanabana that I requested was not good. The small arepas for the appetizer were a little commercialized for our taste, didn’t have that colombian home-made feel. The lava cake didn’t lava as would be expected. Typically, if food is really good, I’d scarf it down, lick the plate clean. I left 75% of my drink, half my burger, most of my fries, half my lava cake, have the ice cream. Ate half of everything out of courtesy, but it wasn’t really hitting like you’d expect from a place so highly recommended.

The vault and the ambiance and the bathroom and the overall look and feel of the place was absolutely the gimmick of the place. It’s very instagrammable. Cute to bring family.

Will be returning in a few months to follow up, see if maybe it was a once only kind of ok food experience. But don’t have extremely high hopes. Especially considering the relatively high price point.

From my sister: The sweetest part of the fruit salad dessert was the ice cream. Typically, a fruit salad desert is topped with condensed milk, which makes it sweet. This was not the case.

There are FLIES! So anyone uncomfortable with it, don’t go there. There was a guy walking around with one of those tennis racket fly zapper tools.

TLDR: food 2/5, service 3/5,...

First, let me say this place used to be a bank and has a parking lot, which is pretty huge for a Weehawken spot. The large windows in colorful atmosphere, is very nice. The tables have a barcode to download the menu, however, the default language is Spanish and to convert to English takes a little doing. Once you get past that, the menu has an abundance of choices. We chose the empanadas and the chicharon ceviche, as an appetizer. The empananas, we're definitely our favorite. To wash them down, we had a coffee and a coconut lemonade. The lemonade had real coconut shavings, which was very delicious. For our main entree, we had the 5 star burger and the churrasco's steak. The bun on the burger was a little hard and the burger was cooked a little well for our liking, but had good flavor. The onion ring was a good call to rop the burger. The churrasco steak arrrived on a heated cast iron plate. Good portion and flavorful with a small amount of chimichurri sauce on the side. We didn't have room for dessert, but everything looked really good. When the bill arrived, we noticed that at the bottom, it said any party more than three, will have an automatic tip included which I thought was a little odd. Al and all I would try this place again. We arrived at noon and had our pick of any table. There is a large old safe which makes great photo...