Shack's Back

If there's ever a topic worth blogging about, it's the opening of the Shake Shack.

The official opening is today, Wednesday, at 11am, but Eater ran a post at around 11am Monday saying the Shack would be soft serving (get it?!?!?) at noon. Realizing this might be the only lunchtime with a tolerable line, I shanghaied two really pretty girls (just like last year) and got on line.

The result was predictably thrilling: a delicious, appropriately sized and salted burger served In-N-Out style on a potato bun. My experience with the Shack last year was a gentle downward slope, from perfect in March to tired in November. The hibernation did wonders, nuff said.

But what made this experience even more bloggable (and what took me 36 hours to produce) is the newly-found and indisputable evidence that I, lowly SS devotee, got served before esteemed foodwriter Ed Levine. Indisputable!, courtesy of Serious Eats' Flickr stream.

Indisputable! (Click for a ridiculously high-qual version and see for yourself.):