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| - I had a Fox Restaurant Concepts gift card. I am a big fan of True Food, Flower Child, and even Sauce--but my husband is a fast-food eater who is easily freaked out by what he perceives as hoity-toityness anywhere near his food. So ... Zinburger it was.
We arrived around 1 pm on a Saturday. There was one party awaiting a table ahead of us. We asked for patio seating, and even though several tables were visibly unoccupied, they told us to wait 10 minutes because "they had lots of tables that needed to be wiped down."
Once seated, we were promptly greeted by a waiter who asked the now-standard question: have you been here before?
(WHY DOES THAT MATTER?? Unless there is some secret to navigating your menu that 30-plus years of restaurant dining hasn't prepared me for (is the sushi arriving on a boat or being served off a naked body? Do I have to cook anything myself? Are any foodstuffs on offer not actually legal?), you don't need to ask this. You just handed me a two-sided menu with all-text graphics. BIG BLOCK LETTERS THAT SAY BURGERS HERE FRIES HERE WINE HERE. Numbers that equal dollars I will trade you for burgers. You are the waiter equivalent of that office d-bag who reads every slide of his PowerPoint. Don't be that waiter.)
I asked to build my own burger. Before I finished saying that, the waiter explained that they have a special right now with their plain burger that you can add three toppings. OK, that would have been a more suitable preamble than "here's how menus work." I chose to upgrade to the "American-style Kobe beef" and chose roasted peppers and avocado (there aren't really very many topping options for those avoiding dairy, so I couldn't find a third). We also ordered fries to share, which they offered to bring out before our burgers.
The fries were good. I don't like salty, so they were fine by me. Most people would probably add salt.
The burger was ..meh. I think shredded lettuce is gross and kind of down-market. The burgers were the big, tall kind that photograph great in magazines like Texas Monthly but that don't actually fit in mouths. For my money, I'd just as soon eat at Smashburger. If that makes me a philistine, so be it.
They have some very tempting milkshake flavors but we were planning to go a few doors down to try Frost Gelato.
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