If you’re familiar with Squire’s in Briarcliff Manor then you’ll know that this picture could have been taken in 2008… or 1978. Squire’s is stuck in a time warp — it literally has not changed in thirty years. And I couldn’t be happier about it.
My family lived in Croton back in the ’70s/early ’80s and Squire’s was one of our neighborhood favorites. I remember that it sat up on a little hill, that it was dark and full of wood paneling, and that the burgers were really good. I also figured like other family food haunts from my childhood — Crab Shanty, Brock’s, Schultz’s Cider Mill — Squire’s was long gone.
So imagine my surprise to read the New York Times online recently and see in the Westchester section a review for… Squire’s! I quickly emailed the article to my parents, and when they came down to visit, off we went for a blast from the past.
“It looks exactly the same!” I marveled to my parents. It was like visiting the Museum of Natural History and seeing the same stuffed animals in the glass display cases that you saw during school field trips. Everything in Squire’s was unchanged, down to the dark wood paneling on the walls. Hell, that might have been the same waitress we had 25 years ago.
We all came for burgers. Mom got a regular, dad got a Mexican burger with salsa and bacon.
I went with the blue cheese burger.
The unanimous consensus: the burgers were just as good as we remembered, charcoal-grilled to a beautiful dark outer crust. My burger was slightly overcooked, (more like well done instead of medium-well) but the taste was just what a burger should be — meaty and flavorful. The prices haven’t changed a whole lot either; my blue cheese burger with fries and pickle was just $7.50.
My parents were pretty psyched. ”I’d definitely come back,” mom said. Let’s hope it’s not another 25 years before we visit Squire’s again, but if it is, I bet the place will still look the same.
GRADE: A-
Squire’s
94 North State Rd.
Briarcliff Manor, NY
914-762-3376
Squire’s: A Burger Relic
If you’re familiar with Squire’s in Briarcliff Manor then you’ll know that this picture could have been taken in 2008… or 1978. Squire’s is stuck in a time warp — it literally has not changed in thirty years. And I couldn’t be happier about it.
My family lived in Croton back in the ’70s/early ’80s and Squire’s was one of our neighborhood favorites. I remember that it sat up on a little hill, that it was dark and full of wood paneling, and that the burgers were really good. I also figured like other family food haunts from my childhood — Crab Shanty, Brock’s, Schultz’s Cider Mill — Squire’s was long gone.
So imagine my surprise to read the New York Times online recently and see in the Westchester section a review for… Squire’s! I quickly emailed the article to my parents, and when they came down to visit, off we went for a blast from the past.
“It looks exactly the same!” I marveled to my parents. It was like visiting the Museum of Natural History and seeing the same stuffed animals in the glass display cases that you saw during school field trips. Everything in Squire’s was unchanged, down to the dark wood paneling on the walls. Hell, that might have been the same waitress we had 25 years ago.
We all came for burgers. Mom got a regular, dad got a Mexican burger with salsa and bacon.
I went with the blue cheese burger.
The unanimous consensus: the burgers were just as good as we remembered, charcoal-grilled to a beautiful dark outer crust. My burger was slightly overcooked, (more like well done instead of medium-well) but the taste was just what a burger should be — meaty and flavorful. The prices haven’t changed a whole lot either; my blue cheese burger with fries and pickle was just $7.50.
My parents were pretty psyched. ”I’d definitely come back,” mom said. Let’s hope it’s not another 25 years before we visit Squire’s again, but if it is, I bet the place will still look the same.
GRADE: A-
Squire’s
94 North State Rd.
Briarcliff Manor, NY
914-762-3376