Late night in Pickering and there really isn't much to eat after the chains close down (and that's at 9-9:30pm on a Thursday). A quick search on Yelp and I found that a really well reviewed classic burger joint was only a few blocks away.
Kip's appears to be an old drive-thru Tim Hortons that's been converted into a divey looking burger shop. There's nothing wrong a spot that looks a little dated and run down, in my experience it's these places that put more effort into their food than anything else - and ultimately that's what counts isn't it? The difference would be divey AND Dirty but Kip's is spic and span for all your burger lovin'.
I didn't waste much time and simply asked the cashier what their most famous burger was and she responded with the classic 6oz. I ordered that, added cheese, bacon and all the fixings. I was told to sit and wait while they prepared it and within a few minutes, it was put through the pass-through between the dining room and kitchen.
The burger was really great, hard to tell if the patty itself was fresh or frozen but having seen them being loaded on the grill I'm going with frozen - it was a very flavourful and perfectly cooked burger patty.
Overall experience was good. I'm definitely making this a stop in the future when I come to visit my grandmother in Pickering
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