During the most recent blizzard, Sean and I came home from work exhausted and starving. No food in the house to speak of and no ambition to really go anywhere. Enter Streat - right at the end of our block. We decided to give the place another shot after about a 6 month breather from our original not-so-great experience.
I'm happy to say that most of the issues we had on our first visit were not issues this time. We were promptly greeted and seated this time. Although we still had to wait a good while for some waters and beers, the service was a bit better.
I can't remember what Sean had, but I got the regular Streat Burger with the 'Cheesehead' style. I was excited to try their rendition of 'cheese curds' to see if they can hold up against the glorious curds of Wisconsin.
Verdict: not really cheese curds, but still quite tasty! Really the 'cheese curds' are very large chunks of cheese which are deep fried so it's really more of a mozzarella stick on your burger than anything. Don't get me wrong, still very tasty and I LOVED that gravy (aka liquid crack) they put on there. This burger was very messy but it was damn good. We had fries for a side as well which were quite tasty but the garlic aioli was WAY TOO garlicky even for me. I was tasting garlic for hours afterward.
Overall, this place has majorly stepped up from our first visit. We will be back to explore the menu combos in the future.