Hmmm...restaurant opened in San Diego 14 months ago. I guess we now know where all those BCO profits were reinvested!)
"Epicurious Eating: Lucky Buck’s
Get ‘Lucky’: Buck’s is an imaginative burger joint
by Frank Sabatini
Published Thursday, 13-Dec-2007 in issue 1042
At last, the arrival of an independent burger joint in Hillcrest that is fast becoming a culinary icon much like Hodad’s is to Ocean Beach or Crazy Burger is to North Park.
Thanks to Lee Bergeron, a house flipper-turned-restaurateur, we need only traipse to the east end of gaydom to encounter Lucky Buck’s, a veritable shrine to the all-American beef patty concealing secret spices and an equally guarded marinade that gets brushed onto the meat as it cooks on a flame-spitting grill..."
And you know what else this article means, folks? We here in the Kocisphere now have something beyond that grainy picture of him with the poodle! w00t!
Update: Lucky Buck's has a web site, which goes to show Lee is perfectly capable of hiring a quality web designer, if properly motivated. Hmmm, menu item: "Buck's On Fire," a tribute to Bryan, maybe?
Update 2: Another picture of Lee Bergeron:
Update 3: Lee Bergeron, after the CCBill hold on Brent Corrigan Online was lifted by the settlement agreement:
21 comments:
Maybe Brent and/or DeWayne will write a restaurant review of their own in the near future. And Elm too, maybe, if he ever gets down to San Diego. :-)
Someone please look up all the code violations for this place, and we can publicize them. Cockroaches, rats, rotten Chinese hamburger, ptomaine.
Lee Bergeron impresses me as being a trust fund baby desperately in search of something respectable to do. I was aware that he had a "restaurant consulting" business, a vitamin business, had real estate interests in La Jolla, the gay ski weekend fiasco, animal rescue after Katrina, moribund internet gay porn site, and now a hamburger reastaurant in Hillcrest. Oh, house flipper. I bet the house flipping business in SD is going great guns just now.
Maybe it is time for Dewayne's big LB expose. Dewayne, don't let the size or complexity overwhelm you. Just put it into three acts. Act I introduces the characters and their motivation and comprizes about 25% of the whole. End it with a catchy plot point. Act II is the middle 50% and comprizes the rising conflict. At the mid-point there is a surprizing revelation that makes the reader consider everything from a different point of view, sort of like kicking over a rotten log in the woods to expose the bugs feeding on the opposite side. Again, you need a compelling plot point at the end of the act (actually the emotional high point of the story) to propel the reader into Act III, where all the loose ends are tied up and the reader is drawn to a satisfactory conclusion.
This is really rich. It's the kind of shit that keeps me hooked on this hobby.
Or DeWayne could just take the easy route, and publicize the secret spices and marinade. Kinda like Plankton stealing the Crabby Patty.
And don't forget to look up the PD, FD, and ambulace responses to that address. We need to know how many old fags had heart attacks while wolfing down Texas Longhorn Bucks.
"...Texas Longhorn Bucks."
Named in honor of Grant, perhaps?
And see if we can't get a snapshot of Jeremy Carsson bussing tables and getting his ass pinched by a diner.
Nice find Jim. There is another picture on the web site. Look under Press and look for the words "Lucky Bucks is the Best." click on it.
In and Out Burger in San Diego is an excellent value priced burger. They cut their potatoes for fries in clear sight right there in the store. Starting pay for employees is about ten dollars an hour. They work for it too. Very busy but very efficient.
Reader review from the San Diego UnionTribune:
Overpriced, deceptive advertising
By ilex on 6/12/2007
If you like to spend $20+ for two burgers and sodas, then go ahead. They have a sign out front that says lunch specials for XX price, when I went in to order, they claimed that they only honored the lunch special during weekdays, BUT the sign makes no mention as to the days and times of the lunch special, and I was there at lunch time. A BIG RIP OFF, their service was S--L--O--W, and the food only mediocre
Hmmm, interesting catch, Albert.
I notice in that much earlier picture, Lee has a business partner. This new article makes no mention of a business partner.
Did Lee and this former burger business partner have a falling out? If so, seems to suggest a pattern...
Jim said...
Maybe Brent and/or DeWayne will write a restaurant review of their own in the near future
Jim to do a review I would have to EAT THERE first!
No Thank you I believe I would get indigestion just from walking in the door.
I am a Burger aficionado and can name EVERY Burger joint in San Diego Lee ripped off to come up with his theme, starting with the legendary Hodads in Ocean Beach.
http://www.photohype.com/Hodads.htm
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/389195
A Surfer/Biker Hamburger joint,
Every burger is a half pound steerbuger grilled to perfection!
Just a block from the funkiest hippiest Beach in San Diego there is just something about enjoying your burger,fries and coke with the strong smell of that funky weed wafting in from the street! Indeed I would say most of the staff have that Hamburger/420 smell on their clothes all the time.
There is just no way Lee can transfer That San Diego beach Burger joint to Hoity Toity Metrosexual infested Hillcrest!
Nope i am in no hurry to try whats its name!
more later I gotta check this joint out!
From the City Times, the student newspaper at San Diego City College:
Hillcrest "Hindenburgs"
n The Jinx - Lucky Buck's (1459 University Ave.) advertises gourmet burgers and burritos which must mean that Burger King is royalty. Just because you call it gourmet doesn't make it so, and pepper jack cheese does not constitute sophisticated taste. No such thing as medium rare here, since the cook mercilessly presses every last drop of juice from the charred patty. Buck's stale, stripped garage aesthetic gives a dirty feel to the place (or maybe it's just the loose topping/condiment station). Isolating the masses even further by accepting cash only, Lucky Buck's burger massacre is nothing but a big "bucking" disappointment.
I paraphrase Geoff who is commenting so sagely on Lucky Bucks, named no doubt because Bergeron managed to stay out of being directly associated in Kocis' murder--Lucky and Bucks from cheating Sean and Grant out of their share of the profits to BCO; hence, "the sign makes no mention as to the days and times of the special. A BIG RIP OFF, their service was S--L--O--W, and only mediocre." Presumably, a Freudian comment regarding Bergeron's Medussa touch.
New Post on My Blog update on Sean and Grant!
Mr. Krabs's signal hoist is "India Romeo Mike." I haven't watched the show in a long time. Is there any significance to IRM, or is that random decoration?
Good Sunday afternoon Jim (very good the Chargers are 27-7 over Detroit 2 min lefy in the 2nd)
Anyway I snapped some pics of Lucky Buck on Friday I will post on the Mashup. It looked very quiet only 2 people inside that I could see.
Only Crickets(on the floor)! what we use to say in Oklahoma! ;-)
Be sure when you finish your big J & H post leave a comment on our blogs so we know,,you can leave an occasional spam message ;-)
Some of us even specialize in spam. Someone once called D and I, the amazing spamming duo. I never knew for sure if that was done in a friendly manner or not. Oh well, another Sunday and people with too much time on their hands.
LOL, based on who is now plugging the restaurant...I predict another Angel's Slut Garden: Lucky Buck's will close in three months! :-)
Holy Mackarel, Kingfish! Angel's Slutgarden didn't last as long as three months, did it? Talk about the kiss of death. No way I could keep down a Texas Longhorn Buck with that knowledge in mind.
jim said...
LOL, based on who is now plugging the restaurant...I predict another Angel's Slut Garden: Lucky Buck's will close in three months! :-)
December 17, 2007 5:29 PM
SOONER THAN THAT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!
>G
I ate at Lucky Bucks and I have an IRON stomach. I got sick as hell from my burger and the service was slow. I'll never go back. Scary experience.
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