I've been striking out over the last three week trying to find a decent burger in Toronto. One place blamed the Canadian laws on giving me a chewed up over cooked pile of sadness and another place tried to reroute me to how good the fries are in Canada. I'm not 8 stop trying to trick me!
I was sitting in an Irish pub earlier today and asked the bartender the age old question "is there an amazing burger anywhere? Please god help me"
OK it wasn't that extreme.
He left for a moment and handed me a local paper that oddly enough listed Toronto's 50 best burgers or something like that. I was looking at the category of "over the top" and the bartender was kind enough to point out most were far from where I was sitting but Burger Brats wasn't far....Ugh It was really damn far but no matter I'm a big boy and can stand to walk a few or several.
First off-The staff greeting was extremely great-friendly and willing to help.
They make a few suggestions and I went with something called the Texan-Burger, Texas toast, egg, ham, and a chipotle mayo. The combo came with fries and a drink for the low! low! price of $15.00. What?????
I often have to remind myself I'm not in Detroit and 15.00 is probably average for this type of a meal.
The food came out in about 10 minutes or so and I dove into the fries. Not too bad. Little greasy but overall decent fries.
The burger!
The Good-This may be the first burger in Canada in general that wasn't dried out and actually had a beef flavor.
It was hot-just from the grill
It was a very large burger.
The bad!
There really were just too many flavors competing and after a few bites of 1/2 the burger I really didn't want to continue and pitched it.
There were 3 slices of Texas toast which is really unnecessary and the chipotle mayo which I did like was really just too hot if you weren't prepared. These are very nominal criticisms in the grand scheme of finding a reasonable burger in Toronto.
Overall I'd go back if I thought about it but I don't think it would be something I'd have to have when visiting Toronto.