My first burger of the New Year and it was pretty good.
First lets start with the menu. At some places menus are an afterthought. At others, menus are marketing tools, a chance to both inform and sell product. Here we have the marketing tool.
“previous winner of the Vancouver Restaurant Critics Best Burger award”. Right away get ready for a special burger!
“baking is done here in the morning” I assume that means the buns.
“This ain’t gourmet but it’s the best, darn purest, leanest burger you will ever eat. 1/3 pound and the beef is always fresh never frozen. Every patty is handmade and charbroiled to 400 degrees F to med. well done. The tomatoes, crisp lettuce, fried or raw onions and a unique mustard based sauce”. And, by the way who says I want a lean burger?
I had the Red Onion Burger with fried onions, cheddar and bacon. This is what I thought:
It’s not the best, but it’s pretty good. I’ve had so called gourmet burgers not as good as this. Give it an 8/10. The patty was overdone, I should have asked for it medium doneness. The patty also gets lost in the big huge bun, which was really good (do you think they actually bake the buns there in the morning?) The veggies were absolutely fresh, but too much lettuce, half inch thick in some places. The cheddar was shredded and not completely melted. This is a major pet peeve for me. I like melted cheese. I encountered the same problem at Vera’s burgers recently. The sauce was tasty but there wasn’t enough of it. Add on some garlic mayo or something similar on the bottom bun, cook the patty less and you got a kick as burger as apposed to a pretty good one.
A note on the fries. Perfectly done, home cut. Nice.
I couldn’t find a website for them, but there are lots of reviews, just Google them.
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