Hudson Valley
Pasture-raised, antibiotic-free Black Angus from Glynwood Farm in Cold Spring. Ground every morning at 5 AM. 80/20 chuck blend, never pre-pattied, never frozen.
5:47 AM . on the line
Founder . Marco Russo
The whole reason
we’re here.
Marco grew up on Court Street. His dad’s deli opened at six and closed when the bread ran out. His cousin Sal worked a flat top in South Philly. They argued about cheese for thirty years. Nobody won.
In 2019 he quit his line-cook job and sold smashburgers out of a friend’s pizza shop after midnight. Eighteen burgers in forty minutes. Then sixty. Then the fire marshal shut him down.
“A burger has eight ingredients. You don’t need a story for it. You need beef that bleeds when you smash it, cheese that cries when it melts, and a bun that holds.”Marco, to anybody who’ll listen
Boerum Hill, May 2021. Twelve seats, one rule: get the burger right. Bread at 5:47 AM, beef ground that morning, grandfather’s sauce we won’t explain.
100% beef
Antibiotic-free
Ground at 5 AM
Brooklyn bread
Open 'til 3
From the bag,
to the bag