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| - Boardwalk is an American franchise that made its early fortune in french fries (according to their website). So, were they any good? Yeah, but not the best fries I've ever had (I prefer wedge cut with the skin on). They're better than most fast food chains though.
We also tried their garden salad. (There was no caesar salad option, or we would have preferred that.) Sometimes you get a salad from anywhere and it looks like it has been preassembled, maybe lightly frozen and shipped across the country in an armpit, but this garden salad was better than most restaurant salads I can recall as far as fresh ingredients go. The largely chopped pieces of iceberg lettuce were very crisp, the diced tomatoes were fresh, and the italian dressing seemed homemade (or at least not from a bottle we recognized). Some of our lettuce pieces were absurdly huge though. A testament to their freshness, I suppose.
The chocolate milkshake was deemed supercreamy and delicious and the Boardwalk Classic burger was "the best fast food burger ever," so they scored some points there. I like that there are a bunch of unusual burger topping options, like sauteed mushrooms, chipotle sauce and grilled onions. Well, unusual compared to Dairy Queen, but not Smashburger. The veggie burger was really nice, and their website claims they handmake their burgers every morning, I also feel that the same care is put into their veggie burgers.
The interior is sort of Quaker meets 50s retro, and the staff seem to enjoy their work and like their jobs. Or at least these ones did. Our order of 3 burgers, fries, and milkshake took about 10-15 minutes to prepare, which was well worth the wait.
Since they're called Boardwalk Fries I should mention some of the other options: chili cheese fries, putine, garlic parmesan fries, bacon cheddar ranch fries, etc. And they have kids meals and grilled cheese sandwiches. I should deduct a point for not having a caesar salad, but and there could have been more red cabbage in the salad, but there's a lot of caesar salads in Crowfoot and I don't really like any of them either. So, five stars it is!
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