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| - Ah, Dangerous Dan's. The double-D is kind of a legend in it's own char-grilled mind, what with the ridiculously low-class interior, chairs made out of minivan bench seats and anti-vegetarian slogans scrawled on the walls.
I hit this place for the first time with a couple of friends on a rainy Sunday. We all needed a good burger and Dan's came through!
I had the Big Shroom Burger: a big, nicely falling-apart patty with a whack of saucy sauteed mushrooms (shiitake, button and oyster I think) on top.
Sides are extra here, but the order of fries I got was ample. Some of the fries were basically half a potato! They were solid, starchy, ketchup and vinegar catchers -- good if not anything mind blowing.
My friends enjoyed a mozzarella burger and a Philly cheese-steak, though I was too occupied with my burger to taste theirs. We also were lucky to have the undivided attention of the portly guy in overalls behind the counter (Dan, I am guessing?) who made crude jokes both at and with us.
After we had cleaned our plates "Dan" surprised us by slapping down a deep fried battered banana with ice cream on our table. Free dessert! Ok, so he might have referred to it as his "wang" (maybe this not the place to take Grandma?) but hey, free food is free food. And the banana was actually really good!
Dangerous Dan's is a place that walks the talk from the posters on the wall ("22% of Ontarians are Obese. . . We can do better!) to the crass, funny staff. It's a verite low-brow diner experience but a damn tasty one. If you're not trying to impress anyone, you're not on a diet and you don't want to blow more than $10, I would recommend this place in a heartbeat -- though it could be your last!
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