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| - This year, I was only able to go to one restaurant for The Grid's Burger Week. After plowing through the list participating restaurants very thoroughly, we finally picked This End Up, a cute little sandwich joint in the west end of the city. The place seemed very popular for the weekday lunch crowd.
I tried one of their spring cocktails - aptly named Spring Rose ($8) with lillet rose, ginger, lavender syrup. While my friend commented that it smelled like soap, I personally really liked the gingery kick and didn't mind the floral notes.
The burger week feature was the Chutney Burger ($5)- 3.5 oz of fresh ground chuck, pork belly, aged white cheddar, umami mayo, tomato & apple chutney, and arugula. $8 will also get you a side of fries, which were thin, crispy and absolutely addictive! I ordered a side salad instead of fries for an additional $4- arugula, pickled fennel and sweet onion, cucumber, toasted sesame seeds all doused in a tangy house vinaigrette. Given the fattiness of my burger, I was glad to have this salad to provide a bit of nutritional balance.
Now, onto the actual burger! The first thing that struck us was its small size. I guess it was significantly smaller than the other $5 burgers we've had at burger week last year. But in the end it didn't really matter because the flavours certainly made up for its size. The patty, although perhaps a little more cooked than I would've preferred, was amazingly juicy, and a huge slab of pork belly added a new dimension of delicious fattiness to the whole burger. I would not have been able to finish the burger if it was any bigger! Nevertheless, it was absolutely delicious and entirely satisfying.
On the whole, I had a very enjoyable burger experience at This End Up, and would definitely come back to try out other sandwiches!
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