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| - I like to think of myself as a very fair-minded person...almost the embodiment of the word...not "person", "fair"!
I am like a living "Spirit of Justice"...right down to the blindfold, the scales and the toga (exposing one manly boob).
No one is going to put the peek-a-boo brassiere of prejudice on me (like the Bushies tried to do to the actual Spirit of justice a few years ago)...no siree!
So it was with love for all burgers and objectivity in my heart that I rolled in to The Grind on a couple of warm afternoons, not so very long ago.
And I just wasn't very impressed...the burger wasn't bad by any means...but it wasn't great either...esp. at the price point...unfortunately.
I expected more!
* More burger choices...only three choices on the menu...it's called The Grind...do they only "grind" enough beef for three burger choices? Maybe they will cobble up something else, if you want, but frankly...I'm paying for them to figure the menu out and prepare the food for me...if I want to figure it out myself, I'll stay home and make my own.
* More flavor...I've tried the place twice, burgers both times and the peppercorn burger and the Sweet and Starchy burger (I may have that wrong)...both were...what's the word I'm groping for here...adequate...completely...adequate. I kind of expect a place like this to knock my socks off (if, of course, I were to ever wear socks), but it just doesn't.
* More for my money...it's $16 - $17 for a burger and beverage, by the time I tip...I'm not complaining about the price...I'm complaining about what I get for the price!
* More better service...OK, I know...bad grammar...I should say "better more" service...the joint wasn't exactly jumpin' either time I dropped in and yet getting a beverage and lunch took a long time...a really long time...a 90 minute long time one of the times I was there...How long does it take to undercook a burger on a super duper unique and special "One Million Degree" grill? The burgers should have vaporized in the time it took to get them to the table!
But in fairness to the Grind (always the hallmark of my little Yelp stories), I made sure that I re-tried some of my other favorite burgers...you know...WCG, FEZ, Daily Dose, Modern Burger, Davids, Zinburger, Lucky Boy, even In-n-Out!
OK, you caught me...it was really more of an excuse to go on a burger binge...I do love them so!
At any rate, all of them still measure up quite nicely...and all of them make better burgers than The Grind!
The Grind is certainly nowhere near the bottom of the barrel...the décor is very nice on the inside (although the little old mall at 40th and Camelback is where restaurants go to die...not pleasant from the outside).
The wait staff seem nice enough whenever you get a chance to see them and interact with them (which isn't that often during the course of a lunch, as it turns out)...I don't know if it's a kitchen issue or that the wait staff is "slower than ass end of hard times" (a saying from the depression era...no, the other depression era...although it certainly seems apropos enough these days).
res ipsa loquitur...
So, as I stand in judgment...the very physical embodiment of the Spirit of Justice...my judgment is that The Grind is a 2.75 star experience, and as everyone knows, Justice is blind, favors no one (except the wealthy) and never rounds up...so 2 stars it is.
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