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| - This corner of Mississauga is quickly becoming the Mississauga corporate 2nd busiest site for Friday lunches. Within minutes of walking distance of each other, you have 3 burger places (South Street, Hero, and A&W) and 2 of them are definitely aiming for the 'gourmet upscale' reputation. To overcome the inconsistent quality of South Street, my colleague suggested we try the relatively new Hero burger. Our arrival to the restaurant was a 'wtf' moment as a ridiculously large and ugly bull sat out front. We should have taken that as an omen...
Inside is bright, clean, and still has that air of 'new restaurant'. I'll give credit to the staff as their ordering and pleasant interactions made for quick ordering. They really push the gourmet impression as it's mentioned multiple times that it's Heritage Angus beef patties that is hormone free and antibiotic free. One thing we quickly notice was that their menu was composed of interesting choices to upgrade your plain burger. It sounded good till your combo easily topped $15. Talk about sticker shock for my colleague. His beef burger started at $7.59 and with all the add ins... it doubled. I was a bit more conservative on my chicken burger ... $1 for red peppers seemed a bit extreme. I ended up paying $12 still though. I will say the price is pretty steep especially it's a fast food place. Union Social restaurant has top notch food and it's a full service restaurant for CHEAPER to help put things into perspective. Their burgers with fries is fully loaded with great toppings and also Ace bakery bread for only $13.
Onto the food... well, in concept, it should have been good. The patty wasn't dried out like South Street but it didn't taste like a good burger. Perhaps it was underseasoned or that the burger were just done without any nice grill marks (aka slight charring to give it some flavour). It was just... chewy protein. The bun was ok but not sure I'd pay $0.50 extra again. My friend's bacon was bordering on steamed instead of crispy bacon. The fries were not very good either. They were hot but definitely under cooked and perhaps too aggressively salty. So it was pale, limp, and too salty... not a good combo for fries.
For close to $30 total for the both of us, it was quite disappointing. Sure, it's a nice atmospher and it wasn't a painful wait but the food has to come first. I rather head to Porta Via, Tangerine, Union Social, Sprouts, and A&W. They're all are more affordable and leaves a satisfying experience.
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