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| - A friend and I decided to check this place out for lunch on a chilly Sunday afternoon. Upon arrival, I perused the menu and decided to order the El Guapo burger, which contains "bacon, homemade jalapeno ranch, lettuce, tomato, onion" (but I should mention that it also included surprisingly spicy jalapeno slices as I well).
The food finally arrived about 10 minutes later and I immediately dug into my promising-looking burger. The first bite was mostly meat and I quickly realized that something was amiss. The burger patty contained this undefinable, palpably weird taste, to the extent that my dining companion, who also ordered a burger, wondered aloud if he had accidentally ordered an elk burger.
Far more problematic, however, was the dryness of the patty. This might have been the driest hamburger I've eaten in ages. It was so dry that I had difficulties swallowing it. I'm not sure how lean the meat here is, but it's clearly much, much leaner than a burger should be.
My dining companion, who agreed that the burger was punishingly dry, also ordered the fries, which also failed to impress. The fries are baked rather than fried and they consequently suffer from a tastelessness and a lack of crunch one expects from a French fry. The saving grace was the ketchup, as the restaurant offers Sir Kensington's Ketchup as a condiment and it's probably one of the best ketchups I've ever tasted.
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