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| - I went here yesterday with the wife & kids, since she was craving a burger, & I didn't feel like cooking. A buddy on my hockey team had mentioned this place, so we decided to give them a shot.
The place is decorated in a hip, "rock and roll" style with graffiti on the walls, & while it wasn't filthy, it definitely wasn't clean, either. The table our oldest boy picked out for us had crumbs & other assorted schmutz on it. Seeing as how we were there at 4:30, well ahead of the dinner rush, there was no reason that one of the two girls working couldn't have cleaned the tables.
I went up to the counter & ordered a Famous Burger Combo (10oz) with onion rings for myself, while my wife wussed out & chose a Classic Burger Combo (4oz), despite me pressuring her to order a Rock Star Combo which comes with a 6oz burger. She did however, choose to upgrade to sweet potato fries for an extra buck. The kids wanted a chicken finger combo & a kids' burger combo, so after all was said & done, the damage was $36 & change. Oh yeah, my wife tried to order a milkshake for us to split while we waited for our food, but the machine was broken. Apparently, the machine is broken a lot, at least according to the counter girl.
We sat down & waited an appropriate amount of time for our food, unless you ask our 6 year-old, who was famished, & said it took "forever." Unfortunately, they forgot to give my wife the sweet potato fries she ordered, so we had to send the regular ones back while we waited for them to bring the sweet potato ones out to us. It turned out to be very unfortunate that we sent those back, because when I tried my onion rings, they were a monumental disaster. Like Greg B said in his review, these things are DOUGHY BLANDNESS! Once you get through all that batter, there isn't even a hint of onion. How can you hide the taste of onion in an onion ring?!!? The batter is so thick, that they don't even look like onion rings! They look like that unrecognisable lump of clay that a first-grader brings home as a Mother's Day present. The only saving grace was that they don't charge you extra to upgrade(?) to the onion rings, like they do with the sweet potato fries. If I had paid extra for those, I can't even imagine what obscenities would've erupted from me.
Now, terrible onion rings aside, the sweet potato fries were quite good, and the regular fries were decent enough. Thankfully, they weren't overcooked, like Greg B's were. The fries were medium cut, with the skin-on, & were comparable to New York Fries, just a little thicker.
My burger was fairly good, although it wasn't remarkable in any way. It was cooked properly, still juicy enough to be enjoyable, but not so juicy that it turned into a soggy slopfest, either. It was good enough that I'd come back, but not good enough that it'll be next week.
The combos come with fountain drinks, although canned pop is also available. Even though you get free refills, my beef is that the cup they give you is the smallest one you'll ever see in a restaurant, & the soda fountain is behind the counter, so they have to refill it for you. Most places let you fill your own cup. Lucky for us, it wasn't busy, so we could walk right up to the counter for refills, but if it had been busy, getting refills would have been a major pain. It would also be problematic for those weirdos who like to make "swamp water."
All in all, I would normally have given them 3 stars, but for a burger place to have such unbelievably bad onion rings, just makes me angry, so 2 stars it is. I might go back, but I definitely wouldn't order the onion rings again, unless at gunpoint.
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