It’s Memorial Day, its hot and your not on the beach so your looking for something to do. A cold drink and a burger, poolside, at the Engleside Sand Bar, was just the thing. Outdoors on the ocean and alive with people soaking up the sun and swimming in the pool , it seemed like just the right place to make a pit stop.
After riding our bicycles for 5 or so miles, the wife and I worked up an appetite and decided to stop for lunch. We had ridden from Ship Bottom to Beach Haven and decided to lock up our rides at the Engleside Sand Bar.
Music filled the air and could be heard from blocks away as we approached the dune at the entrance to the beach and the Sand Bar. People in bathing suits carrying frozen drinks and cold beers paraded around us as we found a table in the shady part of the patio.
Our waitress quickly addressed us and brought our Lemonades and menus. The menu is what you would expect from an outdoor pool bar, sandwiches, salads and burgers with plenty of choices for toppings.
Both burgers looked great on arrival, cooked perfect and topped with enough to satisfy. They are char grilled and 8 ounces, which seems to be more and more the norm for a good burger. What I do find is that with most burgers, and especially with the rarer cooked ones, the bottom bun is always soggy from the burgers juices. This always presents a problem as you get through the burger. As with this one, we wound up using a fork and knife to finish it off. Not the perfect way to enjoy a burger.
All things considered though, the burger was very good. Maybe it was the whole holiday weekend thing that made it taste so good but it definitely satisfied our craving and gave us the much needed energy source to pedal our way back to our car.
The Regular Guy rating * * *
The Engledside Sand Bar
30 Engleside Avenue
Beach Haven, NJ 08008-1725
(609) 492-1251
Ahhh yes “The Engleside Inn” I remember it well. Brunch by the fireplace, working out in the weight room, getting a massage in the massagatorium…and even their finely attired parking lot neatly coated in rocks and asphalt. A fine place with free flowing psuedo Champagne (Champagne is from the Champagne region of France…white wine with bubbles from California is, well, sparkling white wine :)and a filling array of both sweet and savory brunch items. On a related note I am in the development stage of a new and UNIQUE cooking-entertainment show called “Breaking The Mold with Guido & François” Mediterranean cookery at it’s best! Watch for the video..coming soon to Youtube.