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| - I'm generally not impressed by Michael Symon or Crocker Park or burgers with a lot of stuff on them. There seem to be a lot of restaurants out there lately with a concept of selling burgers with crazy combos of stuff paired with giant milkshakes possibly containing alcohol, and I am more of a burger-with-onions-and-cheese person than burger-with-a-bacon-egg-and-waffle-breakfast-on-it person, so I figured this place would be just OK. I was wrong. The burgers are very, very good.
Even though I do not like burgers that are pink in the middle as the restaurant recommends you get them - medium well is as rare as I go. Even though the ones with combos of meat (a burger with BBQ pork on it, a burger with a pastrami reuben on it, etc.) are definitely not my taste. Even though they cost 12 dollars. Even though the restaurant, while containing some nice art, was uncomfortable - jammed with people, with an overly tiny table for the two of us, and not sufficient monitors for my friend to see the basketball scores (the only monitor I could see was directly over our heads, a dumb place to put it), and furnished in some industrial style with the type of uncomfortable "design" chairs and tables you expect to see in a museum cafe, and with insufficient surfaces to absorb the noise of conversation so it was like eating in a big echo chamber.
Even with all of that, the burgers were still very, very good. You can build your own combination, but I wanted to try one of the specials. Finally picked the New Jack City one which had pepper jack cheese and peppers but didn't go so far as to slap some second kind of meat or egg on. I really liked it - it was surprisingly mild. The bun was also just a great hamburger bun - it was not hard to chew, or pretzel style, or covered with a ton of seeds which can be hard to eat without getting them all stuck in your teeth (or in the case of some of my family, their dentures). There is a condiment bar with lots of pickled stuff including sweet pickles, which I like a lot, so that's cool. And the Lola fries were awetastic as they were actually crispy shoestring fries, which seem to be hard to find nowadays. They do have a lot of rosemary on them, which turned off my dining companion but I like rosemary OK so more for me.
The only food that was just sort of ordinary was the milkshake, which I guess makes sense since a milkshake is a milkshake and once you have good quality ingredients, there isn't much that a restaurant can do different from your own kitchen. The milkshake was the size for about three meals, I will give it that. But next time I'll probably have a beer.
A solid four stars. If the restaurant was more comfortable to eat in, I'd give it five stars.
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