Listener Bruce Farrell Rosen tells us his favorite memory of Jimmy Buffett, who passed away last month.
The best cheeseburger that I have ever eaten–and I have heard from many sophisticated burger eaters that they have never had a better one anywhere in the world–was at a joint called Cool Cats Cafe on Front Street in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
The burgers were even better–and this place was good–than at the Cheeseburger in Paradise Bar and Grill, also on Front Street in Maui.
It had been truly paradise eating a burger on the deck of Cool Cats, the salty breeze just off the ocean across the street seducing the senses, a beer or root beer so satisfying after a full bite followed by their delicious fries. The location’s staff had done something with their onions, I know not what–or perhaps it was simply that the onions on Maui are just better that at most places.
Cool Cats and Cheeseburger in Paradise, which is owned by Jimmy Buffett’s corporation were just blissful places to be in the middle of the day or deep into the evening.