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| - If I had to sum up I Love Burgers in three words, they would be "didn't love it".
My wife and I ducked in here during a visit to town square. Yardhouse looked busy and we wanted something more casual, so we thought we would give this new place a try. It certainly looked low-key.
I ordered "The Inferno" and a side order of onion rings. It was rather expensive for what you got. The onion rings were fine, tasty enough, but at around six bucks for the serve there were so few that you were looking at just under a buck per onion ring. for this price there should be enough of them to share with the entire table -- even at a place like Town Square --- particularly when you can get a gargantuan tower of much better onion rings, mere feet away, at Yardhouse for not very much more.
The burger itself was OKish - I know they call it "inferno" and I LIKE hot things, but I have become used to hyperbole when dealing with "hot" fast food where words like "inferno" simply mean, spicy. They aren't kidding around here - The Inferno burger comes with fresh, not pickled, jalapenos, complete with seeds. They are only lightly seared and remain a little bit crunchy, so it's almost like you have partially raw, crunchy, cut up peppers in your burger. After a few bites my eyes began to water, my nose began to run, and I had to take a long drink after every bite. Hot and spicy is one thing, but as another reviewer said, the jalapenos in The Inferno totally overwhelm the other flavours. I also wasn't crazy about the very soft buns here, either. I prefer a slightly crusty bun, but I understand that in the US people generally prefer the soft bun, so I'll put that one down to cultural preference and leave it at that. the problem is, though, that everything about the burger -- soft bun, soft pattie -- (with the exception of the crunchy jalapenos) was a bit gummy and mushy. There wasn't any feeling of substance to each bite.
Overall, I Love Burgers serves up a product that I don't feel is vastly superior to places like Jack in the Box and Carl's Jr. Yes, it IS better than these places in that the ingredients are clearly of good quality and the burger is well assembled, but at the end of the day it's still very clearly a fast food offering. With prices and a location like this, I feel that these guys could go that extra mile toward turning out something truly remarkable, worthy of reminding punters why burgers are something they might one day fall in love with all over again.
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