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| - I really wanted to like this place. I went out of my way to stop in, because according to Yelp, this is the best burger joint around.
No. No it isn't. I got there at 2:30 in the afternoon. No one else was around, so it's just my order. I ordered two bacon cheeseburgers with fries and sides of ranch. The first thing that gave me pause was that they started the fries before the burger. So I knew the fries were going to sit around for a while, but whatever.
Anyway, I get my food and reach into the bag to pull out a fry. I've still got a few miles before I will get home, so I figure I'll taste the fries while they are hot. Number one, fresh out of the bag that was just handed over, the fries were lukewarm. Number two, you know those nasty fries that look all nice and crispy and....fry like, that you bite into and discover it's all a big sham? Their fries are coated in some sort of preservative flavored powder that wants to be curly fry coating but isn't, and the inner fry is just a sad little impotent chunk of limp potato.
That's ok, we've got ranch!
No. No we don't. I don't know if dollar stores make house brand ranch, but if they did, this would be it.
Ok. Fries and ranch are a wash. What about the burgers? Well, I gave the restaurant two stars because they are, in fact, giant. Giant slabs of what I can only imagine is meat flavored play-dough. The precooked bacon was put on the grill at the same time as the raw hamburger meat, so it was more like bacon bits by the time it hit the burger. The veggies were good. They basically put a small side salad on your burger AND they were good quality veggies, so there's that.
TL;DR, if you are really hungry and don't care what your food actually tastes like, go for it. If you're like me and are just looking for a tasty burger and fries, do yourself a favor and skip this place.
Side note: this restaurant wasn't so bad that I felt I had to leave a review to warn people away. I'm leaving this review because I don't think the 4.5 star average is anywhere near accurate. For what it's worth, the people there were really nice. It just wasn't a $25 lunch by any stretch of the imagination.
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