The Bachelor Farmer, the acclaimed Minneapolis restaurant that closed early in the pandemic, gave the local culinary scene a lot of things. One thing it didn’t give us: a burger.
But Jonathan Gans and Josh Hoyt, the executive chef and director of operations, respectively, of the former Bachelor Farmer, are now turning their attention to the burger. Make that “le burger.”
Their French-inspired take on the humble American icon of a sandwich will move into great-food-packed Linden Hills this fall.
Le Burger 4304, at 4304 Upton Av. S., ponders what would result “if a couple American guys went to Paris and opened a burger place,” Gans said. “We want it to be very fun and casual, really family-friendly, but just really high-quality ingredients and the same level of detail and all the stuff that we would do at TBF.”
That doesn’t mean they’ll be serving a modern Scandinavian meat patty on smørrebrød. Rather, it’s the ethos of TBF that they are reviving in burger form.
“We don’t want to take for granted that it’s just burgers and that that means we shouldn’t care about the ingredients and the technique,” Gans said. “We want to be as thoughtful and intentional as we would anywhere else, just apply it to burgers.”
Gans and Hoyt are partnering with John Gross (Sanjusan, Kado no Mise).
Gans, who was responsible for Churchill Street’s renowned smashburger, will lean French with his flavors, sandwich-ifying some classic French dishes, like chicken cordon bleu, and “maybe taking some plays from French onion soup kind of vibes,” he said. There will be about 10 different burgers and sandwiches on the menu, including house-made veggie patties.
