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| - I want to love The Grind. I really, really do. I like to see more and more restaurants open up in the neighborhood and prosper. I guess is the reason that I keep giving The Grind another chance, but I think I'm close to coming to the conclusion that it's just an OK place and there are better burgers in the neighborhood.
On my first visit, I ordered my burger medium rare and it came out distinctly medium while my companion ordered his medium and it came out medium well. The peppercorn burger (mine) wasn't heavy on the flavor, but at least it hadn't been murdered to a medium well state. My friend's sweet and spicy burger had more flavor, but the meat was dry and overcooked. Oh well, we assumed that they just hadn't gotten the kinks worked out of their vaunted 1000 degree oven yet and were still learning how to cook with it.
Since then, I've given The Grind a couple of more tries, the latest last night when the GF declared that she was hungry for a burger. We got there about 9p and the place was about 30% full. Not too bad for that late on a weeknight, but it seemed like most people were there drinking and not eating. I ordered the sweet and spicy burger medium rare and the GF ordered the BLT burger medium. I warned her that it was likely to come out medium well, but she gets oooged out by too pink burgers so she went with it. We split an order of the herbed fries. My sweet and spicy burger came out medium and her BLT burger -- big surprise -- came out medium well. The fries were overly cooked in my opinion and too crispy, but I'm also someone who actually likes my fries to taste like potato. My sweet and spicy burger was pretty good, but my GF ate less than half of her BLT burger. She thought it was okay, but she wasn't going to waste the calories and fat grams on something that was just okay.
Service has been good every time I've gone, but the average food just doesn't make up for it. At this point, I probably won't give The Grind another chance because, quite frankly, when I'm paying $10 for a burger there are just too many other good options in the neighborhood.
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