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| - Ordered takeout* from The Brass Ring tonight, since I had won a gift card at work. I ordered a cheeseburger and fries. Taking into account the fact that it was takeout, and the food stewed in a styro box for about 5 minutes I would have this to say:
Meh
Yeah, just meh. It seems like the place must use about 90% pre-prepared Sysco products. From past experience ordering appetizers here while playing pool along with this experience, it's just a mediocre culinary tour de meh. Here's my anal-retentive breakdown of the burger.
My desired medium-rare burger patty was a few degrees past medium-well done and didn't even taste as if it were salted. It was dwarfed by the bun, and the bun wasn't big - literally a 2/3" circle of bun was viable ringing the entire burger...not cool. The tomato was super ripe and fresh, as was the onion. The pickle spear was cold and crispy, not bad. The lettuce wasn't brown, but it was pretty well past its prime, but I ate it so it wasn't unserviceable.
This was a "fancy" burger so it also had a couple small onion rings on it (tasty, but you really can't mess up an onion ring unless you forget to cook it) and chipotle BBQ sauce. The sauce was actually pretty good, a little bit of heat, and not overly burdened with sugar. Pretty sure it was made in house from pre-made bottles of other sauces. The bun wasn't stale, but it was crispy, like they tried to toast it up in an oven but left it in 3 minutes too long. Average style cheddar cheese also made an appearance.
The fries were cooked damn near perfect and salted adequately. They even stayed a little crispy after 5 minutes in styrofoam, I suspect witchcraft.
The whole thing came with utensils, condents and napkins without even asking. Big plus.
I'll happy spend the remaining 12 bucks left on the gift card and eat there again. But with all the other food options within a 1mile radius of here, it might be a while till I return to try another burger. The fries though...
*This review is for the food only. From experience I can say that the bartenders are friendly, the amenities above average, and the overall atmosphere of the place is very nice.
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