Cozy Soup 'n Burger

Located as 739 broadway at Astor pl, was my first stop on my Burger Quest '08 city wide search. A good medium rare cheeseburger is one of the most pleasing things to my otherwise quite unrefined palate, so I've decided (mainly because I've got nothing better to do) to make it my mission this year to find the best cheeseburger the city has to offer.
I was turned on to the Cozy burger by some co-workers who's raves of the jumbo sized grilled meat patties had visions of cheeseburgers dancing in my head.
Cozy Soup 'n Burger, is well cozy. A small, almost innocuous diner, I almost passed it by. It has quite an expansive menu, offering all the traditional, comforting diner fare, and 30 some odd types of burgers to choose from. I was impressed. I also had built my expectations a little too high. Wisdom always dictates that much like no good deed going unpunished, that whenever Jenn has expectations of something the universe will conspire to make sure real life does not live up to them. You would really think I would learn by now. But, I digress.
I deiced to go with the eponymously named "cozy burger", Which includes american cheese, mushrooms and grilled onions. The burger was in fact "jumbo", but it was really soggy and messy. The mushrooms were canned and the onions barely discernible. I'm sure if I weren't on Burger Quest '08, and hadn't already been treated to rave reviews of this place I might have enjoyed it a little bit more, but it was disappointing.
Cozy is however now on my short list of late night, post boozing n losing stops. Nothing beats good diner food to soak up all the alcohol from a long night, but my quest for the elusive best burger continues on.