Klüg Burgers

Smashburger lovers

There is a distinctive and atypical element that makes the offer of the Klüg turn into a real claim, and it is the technique that they use to prepare their hamburgers. A place to try craft beer.

Author: Joan Ramis Boscana

When we cross the avinguda del Compte de Sallent and enter carrer Blanquerna, an image strikes our mind to remind us of the following: the shelves of our fridge are somewhat bare, they are almost screaming for us to fill them with something to feed us. It is at that moment when we leave the Melicotó store to approach a corner Agromart, one of the twenty-one stores spread throughout Mallorca that are committed to the product of the farmer, that endangered figure that plows the land to grow vegetables and tubers that can be found in few places. We leave the supermarket and Klüg Burgers soon reveals itself to us as a place we cannot leave behind. We take a look at our shopping: we're not overloaded either. We ask the waitress if she has a table for two and she quickly finds a place for us. This hamburger place had had our attention for a long time and we needed to add it to our list of places that Palma holds as what they are: monuments built in honor of meat.

Searching through the Klüg Burgers website at some point we were able to read the following: Happiness is shaped like a hamburger. When we enter their premises, we corroborate this quote by the countenance of the staff, the smiles of the diners and the feeling we get when we sit down. The place is not too big: high tables with stools on one side and other lower tables almost at the other end of the establishment. It is right there where they seat us, under some photos whose branches fall from a black roof. The bar installed at the back of the place has several handles protruding from the wall. Behind that wall, hidden are the barrels of some of the craft beers that have been fermented in the Lowther Brewery. Without hesitation, we order a lager and a pale ale, two brews that will add a frothy, golden touch to the burgers at which our fingers are already pointing. 

There is a distinctive element that makes the Klüg's offer an out-of-the-ordinary attraction, and that is the technique they use to prepare their burgers, called smashing. The method consists of smashing the meat against the griddle so that the fat crystallizes giving the burger a greater point of flavor. This contribution is a novelty in the hamburger culture of Palma and so is the reason that almost pushed us inside the place. A moment after the first sip of our beers, our two nominees fly to the table: the Epicarda and the Modo Diablo, although we order the latter in a beyond meat version, a transformation to which the entire menu can be subjected. A fact that reveals the change of conscience that society is going through. 

If anyone thinks that our burgers are going to come alone, they are very wrong. The Nachos de P*** Madre are the first to be seen, and they show up with a cheddar that melts with great pleasure next to the barbecue sauce. A mixture that permeates the pulled pork resting on top of the pancakes. These side dishes go out of their way to steal the spotlight from the real protagonists of this story, which are the burgers. As soon as they arrive, they take the spotlight that belongs to them. The first bite comes with a warning: this bun is different because it is made of potato, and the burger is grateful for it because both ingredients always make a good match. The taste of the meat is what surprises us the most: it has been brought to us well done and, even so, it is very juicy. This smashburger has more than enough: the truffled mayonnaise gives it that peculiar touch in which the sautéed mushrooms are molded. The arugula, on the other hand, supports an emmental with which it forms the base.

What a tremendous thing, as tremendous as a Modo Diablo that is just spicy enough. A little demon for vegans in which purple onion and bell pepper jam, the two evil components of its recipe, happily receive an egg yolk that melts exactly as we do: in pure praise. No doubt about it: we will return to Klüg Burgers because we loved it.