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| - I think it's important to make a restaurant distinction here. If you appreciate dive-like settings with a) good food and/or b) good service, then you'll like Chuckbox. Oh, also being a meat-eater would help. If you're a sanitation-freak, I wouldn't come here.
Having eaten my lunch too early, I walked across the street from my office to the Chuckbox to give it a try. I stood in line and a nice man behind the grill took my order. A Big One, wheat bun. He then reaches into a bag o' buns and pulls it out with his bare hands, stabs it with burger and cheese identifying toothpicks, and tosses them on a flat grill surface to toast. Then he grabs his spatula and continues to flip.
The burgers move around the heat according to their done-ness, and the chicken goes where the burger was, the pineapple goes where the chicken was....get my point? If it wasn't cooked, maybe some would be worried about cross-contamination.
Anyway, the burger was AWESOME. I thought it was juicy and had good flavor. It looked like he sprinkled season salt on it--I could be wrong. I love a ton of condiments, so I really appreciated having a bar of them to myself. The lettuce was lacking--just a hacked up iceberg with some not so yummy parts, but everything else was what I wanted and more.
This place is all about expectations, and that's why I rambled so much about what some would love and what some would be terrified about.
I'll come back and try the chicken.
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