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| - Meant to go to Smokehouse on St. Clair, but the place was jam packed so ventured across the street to Chuck and Co instead. Looked like a nice place, but oddly, completely empty. That's always a worry, but we went anyway. Apparently, they won a prize for best burger in Toronto Life, so must be okay. Noticed that they fry burgers on a griddle instead of char broiling though. Odd for a real burger place. Isn't frying a burger a bit like boiling toast?
So we ordered. I had the award winning Montreal Burger which featured smoked meat. We also had a Juicy Lucy which has mozzarella inside it and a portobello mushroom burger. We ordered some fries which arrived first, like a starter, which was odd. They were good, but fries are meant to go with a burger. That's basic burger stuff to me. The burgers arrived after we finished the fries completely.
The portobello burger had two small and limp mushrooms rather than a nice big one, so that was disappointing. They were pretty greasy too. My Montreal burger was okay, but as it was fried, not a great flavour to me. The buns were kind of heavy, so I didn't like them too much either. The Juicy Lucy was missing the cheese completely, so back it went. It arrived a bit later and it had the cheese but also a kind of funny smell and taste. It seemed to us like the meat might be too old. I didn't like it at all and the others didn't have this taste or smell, so that was worrying.
So, I guess I know why it was completely empty when we arrived and when we left. Service was charming and friendly, but that's kind of small potatoes. These were not good burgers.
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