Footballer's Favorite Dish to Benefit Community

Justin Scott's new Red Rooster Overtown burger and drink

Related: Read Our Review of Red Rooster Overtown

Justin Scott

B y GERRY BARKER
North Palm Beach Life
Photos by North Palm Beach Life

Are you ready for some football? Red Rooster Overtown, with its historic downtown Miami location, is.

To whet our appetite for the upcoming season, University of Miami defensive lineman Justin Scott has teamed with Red Rooster Overtown's Executive Chef, Charles Page,  to create a special dish from Scott's childhood in Chicago -- a hamburger -- that will be offered at the restaurant for a limited time.

Trading his football pads for an apron, Scott and Page went into the kitchen at a special media event to show how it's made.

"It has a little Asian barbeque influence," said Page, "along with house-made bacon and Korean barbeque aioli," served with their signature fries. "You get a little sweet, a little tangy and a nice salty taste." Page explained how he makes the bacon, a 10-day process: "We cure it, we smoke it, then caramelize and glaze it."

Complementing the burger is a special drink, served in a customized, souvenir cup. "It's made from fresh-squeezed orange juice, fresh-squeezed mango juice, a little but of orange ginger and simple syrup," said Page. 

A portion of the proceeds from the dish will benefit the nearby Dunn's Overtown Farm, a nonprofit, pesticide-free, urban community farm founded by educator and activist Dr. Marvin Dunn. It offers free organic produce to local residents, shelters and after-school programs.

Page has a special appreciation for the farm. "It's definitely great because on busy nights if I run short of an herb or something, we can grab some basil and we're ready to rock. It's definitely clutch," he continued, "and the quality is something we have over other restaurants."

For Scott, a former five-star recruit, it's an opportunity to show support for his adopted community in South Florida with his five-star burger.

Coinciding with Scott's burger, Red Rooster Overtown has upped its game-day experience as well, adding  new televisions throughout the bar, as well as a drop-down, projection screen in the historic, upstairs Clyde Killens Pool Hall.

When Miami takes the field for its first game at Stanford Sept. 4, it's a good bet where those TVs will be tuned.

Red Rooster Overtown is located at 920 NW 2nd Ave. in Miami,. Visit their website at redroosterovertown.com

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