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| - I was not feeling 25 Degrees. Had they not been in the laughable City North, I might have given them an extra star, but they're not, so two it is. When we came, it was pretty much empty except for a couple tables out on the patio because it was nice out. We elected to sit outside too.
This first thing I hated was their menus. You get this huge board game sized piece of paper sandwiched between two pieces of plexiglass and then held together with a thick rubber band. They just seemed tacky! Obviously, I came here for the burgers, so I read through my options and decided that build my own was the way to go. I started getting hesitant about the price, because just a couple add ons were going to make my burger cost about 15 bucks or so. It better be good.
I settled on a sirloin burger with barbecue sauce, crispy onions, and bacon. We also got an order of fries to share (also quite expensive.) The fries were just okay, but I did like the seasoning. It just needed more. The burger on the other hand was a HUGE let down. Just because you give me a massive patty plopped between a sky high bun does not make the value any better. The patty itself was at least an inch and a half thick, so when I requested my burger to be cooked medium, I got something closer to well done around the outside with only a sliver of pink on the inside. Not so cool. The burger itself was very bland. You can't just throw ground sirloin on a grill and call it a burger. There needs to be some love and seasoning or else it just won't work. I did like the barbecue sauce, but that was it. The bacon had no flavor and added nothing in terms of texture, unless you want to call tough and chewy an improvement. The crispy onions, my most anticipated feature, were actually the worse. It seemed to me like they were fried way in advance, allowed to cool, and then stuck on there. They were cold, tough, and stringy. Obviously, this was unappetizing.
I ate about a quarter of my burger, making a huge mess because of the astronomical proportions, before I decided that it just wasn't worth it. I definitely will NOT be coming back to 25 Degrees and it's only a matter of time before this lame development collapses into its own filth.
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