Salt City Smash Burger and Glazed and Confused Donuts are collaborating on a new dish- a burger with donuts for buns- for this year’s annual Dining Weeks. The owner of Smash Burger says the donut-burger will be available starting March 1.
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ANCHOR: Tomorrow, Dining Weeks kicks off in Central New York. NCC’s Lucy Vulgamore’s got the latest on a fun new menu item for two Syracuse restaurants.
LUCY VULGAMORE: Dining weeks is an annual event where downtown Syracuse restaurants feature deals on meals, free samples and more. Salt City Smash Burger and Glazed and Confused donuts have partnered this year to stand out among the rest… and raise your blood pressure.
KYLE MASTROPIETRO: We started playing around with different flavor combinations, and seeing if, you know, peanut butter would work with it.. just the maple bacon on the donut was perfect to go with just a simple cheddar smash burger with apple and bacon on it.
LUCY VULGAMORE: Kyle Mastropietro owns Salt City Smash Burger along with Kosai Ramen and other local restaurants. When the chance came to collaborate with a friend from Glazed and Confused, he couldn’t pass it up.
MASTROPIETRO: We’re very excited to do this, Paul and I have been looking for a way to collaborate. It’s tough with donuts and ramen, so when we started the smash burger place a kind of light went off, like, hey, let’s do a donut burger.
LUCY VULGAMORE: Downtown Syracuse Dining weeks begins tomorrow. Lucy Vulgamore, NCC News.
SYRACUSE N.Y. (NCC NEWS)– Two Syracuse staples are partnering up for this year’s Dining Weeks to stand out among the rest– and raise your blood pressure.
Dining weeks is an annual event where downtown Syracuse restaurants feature deals on meals, free samples and more. Starting this Wednesday and lasting two weeks, the event is meant to bring the community together through food.
Fifty-two restaurants, bakeries, and breweries are participating this year, including Syracuse favorites like Pastabilities and Original Grain. All eateries are offering a three-course lunch for $15 and a three-course dinner for $35. The owners of Salt City Smash Burger and Glazed And Confused donuts however, are taking a different route.
“We started playing around with different flavor combinations, and seeing if, you know, peanut butter would work with it,” says Kyle Mastropietro, the owner of Smash Burger and other downtown restaurants. “Just the maple bacon on the donut was perfect to go with just a simple cheddar smash burger with apple and bacon on it.”
With a patty from Smash Burger and a maple bacon donut from Glazed and Confused, a burger with donuts for buns was born. Although the donut-burger is meant to rally customers, Mastropietro sees the opportunity differently.
“We’re very excited to do this,” says Mastropietro. “Paul and I have been looking for a way to collaborate… a kind of light went off, like, ‘Hey, let’s do a donut burger!’”
The donut-burger will be available on March 1 when Dining Weeks begins.