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Had to grab a quick bite with the wife before heading up to a convention in Hudson Friday night. I do a lot of my shopping at the Giant Eagle behind this place and the fresh decor and stunning graphics always allured me into adding this place onto my list even though it's a chain. I'm a burger fanatic after all. So finally I had a chance where I needed to grab something quick on my way North.
It's a counter service fast-casual restaurant that obviously put a lot of money into making the interior as hip and modern as possible. They also boasted heavily of 'gourmet' food, grass fed beef, and fresh local produce as well as any other foodie buzzword you might come up with. That's all well and good, but if your food doesn't back it up then I don't really care about any of that. The menu while appearing large and intimidating had surprisingly few choices. Burgers, veggie burgers, dogs, sides, and shakes. There were only a few options as far as burger choices went so my wife and I both grabbed one each with a 'fry & cry' combo of you guessed it; frys and onion rings. It's a nice idea to have this so two people sharing can split and have a bit of each so kudos for that. I will mention though the wife and I stuck with water there was a selection of beer, wine, and other choices as well as a handful of drinkable ice cream options.
The wife had the 'Breakfast All Day Burger' with cheese, bacon, fried egg, syrup, and hashbrowns on it. I had 'The Twenty Eight' with brisket burger, swiss and blue cheese, and Burgerfi sauce. Mine was very mediocre. The blue cheese didn't kick me the way I typically want it to and the rest of the burger seemed rather blah to be honest. I was excited to give my wife's burger a shot but the combination of sweet syrup, runny yolk, and potato made me want to gag. I don't know who's idea it was to add a hashbrown to a burger, but it wasn't a good one. The biggest complaint was that they were small. When I'm paying close to $10 for a burger I want them to be substantial enough to really fill me up!
I was hoping for better luck with the fries and onion rings. The onion rings were gigantic. They were so huge I had trouble even managing how to eat then and had to settle with crushing them down and nibbling at them. Does anybody like onion rings like this? Not to mention they were 75% breading which is a terrible concept. The fries might have been good if they didn't taste like week old grease. I'm not sure how often they cycle they're fryers, but these fries were soggy with old grease and I couldn't even finish them.
I'm not sure what this place wants to be. Chic burger bistro? Competition for 5 guys? Upscale burger bar? No matter what they're trying to achieve they fail. There isn't a single reason I ever want to return here. Vibrant decor, foodie lingo, and stylish graphic design will only carry you so far when you're food doesn't live up to any of it. Sad to say it made me wish I went to Burger King.
Bill for 2 with water, 2 burgers, fry and onion ring combo was $25.
Atmosphere - ***
Price - *
Quality - **
Taste - **
Service - ***
Good Points
- I had to think for a long time about something to add here and I don't really have any positive feedback.
Bad Points
- Overpriced for what you get.
- Not a lot of options to choose from.
- Didn't feel like care was taken in preparing the food.
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