Seattle Foodies

Lunchbox Laboratory's delicious monster.

Ah, delicious, languid Friday afternoons. A late-summer day, warmed by sun streaming through an open window, and pinned down by a humongous, monster burger in your belly. What a beautiful beginning for the Foodies First Friday Lunch Club. Starting today, and every first Friday of the month until the Sun burns out, Tom Douglas Summer Campers are reconnecting to share the previous month’s food exploits and, of course, to eat.

For our inaugural feast, nearly 20 of us “clubbed” the good folks at Lunchbox Laboratory, where we gorged on their burger creations using beef, lamb, buffalo, prime rib, even a duck and pork combo (“dork”), piled with 10-15 daily cheeses, bacon, and other reach-for-the-sky ingredients. Check the menu on their seizure-inducing website for advance build-your-own strategery, or just show up and choose from the innovative daily specials board. Make sure you bring enough friends to order all the sides (onion rings, skinny fries, sweet-potato fries, tater tots) and their assortment of specialty salts (smoked Asian salt, rosemary sea salt, and more) and sauces. And don’t miss their best-in-the-business milk shakes (served in lab beakers, of course). The hardest part of eating at the Lab is choosing, but don’t worry: there’s usually enough of a line to give you time to peruse all the options.

Shown above, the only burger said to be visible from space: my lamb and bacon Frankenstein. And what’s that in the background? The camera caught fellow foodie Bruce in the act of forking his dork! (Personally, I prefer to use my hands.)