run by four interchangeable lumbersexual white guys in their mid 20s who are having the time of their lives and one white chick in her late 20s who is just so over it.
Lol that is so spot-on I can't believe the parallels never occurred to me.
One exception though, I really had good burgers in such a place in Haarlem / NL.
There's a bar here with that aesthetic. They do serve ok burgers at slightly reasonable prices, but the secret is to become friends with the cooks. Then tell them that you don't care what the upcharge is, but you want them to make you the burger they'd want and to have fun with it.
Now I can go in and say "Tell them TexasDrunk wants whatever burger they want to send out" and 9 out of 10 times I get a burger that's delicious (and sometimes insane). Usually they just charge me the regular burger price.
I don't do it often, but I got good friends and good burgers out of it.
Hell yeah! When I worked as a server, I would ask the cooks to make me a burger of the day for my lunch break. There was no "burger of the day" they just went wild and often times they required multiple "load bearing straws".
People who go into cooking generally enjoy getting to be creative. I love those insane creations that require load bearing anything (although I don't think I've seen straws, usually it's toothpicks, skewers, or pickle spears).
My absolute favorite wasn't the tastiest but it was definitely the coolest. The guy made a pretty standard bacon jalapeno burger, added some house made barbecue sauce, cut it into pieces, skewered it, and served it as the garnish for a pitcher of micheladas.
Note: A michelada is kind of what you'd get if a bloody Mary went to Mexico on vacation and added beer and spices.
It's so strange, around here there's no real difference between a bloody Mary and a bloody Caesar. I know what the difference really is but no one seems to give a shit at brunch.
However, folks around here are super proud of their micheladas. Everyone does the clamato juice with vodka, beer, and Tajin. But they all try to outdo each other with the other spices and presentation.
Other than my friend's pitcher that I loved, the place that does the best micheladas in my opinion is Captain Tom's. It's the most mediocre seafood joint that is amazing when you're getting over being fucked up. If I hadn't been to Taqueria Ruby tonight to fix myself I'd definitely be there tomorrow morning trying to feel normal.
I went to a place like this once. Had a bison burger (?) and it was avtually fucking delicious. The fries were just "fries" but they weren't bad in any way. Above average in flavor and consistency.
I'm guessing most places like this are garbage and the one time I went, I got lucky.
I hate $20 prices for burgers as much as the next warm blooded American but they are usually great. It’s a burger after all. That said it’s all about that bun!
I live in northern VA and all the burger and bbq joints look like this, mostly.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of culinary science...?
Everything else is just a really good sear and not overdoing the toppings too much. Don't even need fancy beef, just 80/20 chuck can deliver top notch results.
Most of them are mediocre. Most burger places were mediocre, and then the American gastropub trend saw burgers being made nice as opposed to diner food or bar food. They could also charge more money because they were making nicer food.
Eventually a bunch of the mediocre places shifted to try to also be nice, but mostly just increased prices, changed decor, and started using the word aioli more than mayo. Oh, and pretzel buns on burgers that got taller without being bigger and are cumbersome to eat.
In the plus side, if you like a Swiss burger with a garlic aioli, a burger with a fried egg on it, or a burger with 2 pieces of bacon, a spicy BBQ sauce, and fried onion strings and you're in the mood for some fries with bits of peel on them and a garlic Parmesan butter, then you know exactly what they're going to put in from of you and exactly what it'll taste like.
Mediocre. Not bad, but definitely not the best you've ever had.
So the city I live in has a few of these and they're some of the best burgers in town, for fairly reasonable prices.
There's a fucking war on here for the best burger and I'm so happy for it. We don't fuck around with burgers.
They're so good and reasonably priced that the first time I saw this meme I was a little confused. Like yeah the aesthetic is kinda lame but that doesn't change the food. Maybe the stools aren't comfortable but like, there are regular tables. Like what's the problem??
Then I went to another city.
My friends, I am so, so, sorry. You don't deserve this. Good burgers aren't hard, they're really not. Just stay home, invest in a griddle. Even if it's just a small one for your stove top, you can make better burgers at home. Make friends with a local butcher, he won't steer you wrong. I don't know what caused that trend but I know the only way to stop it is to stop going.
My city has both, and they're decorated the same. I just wonder whether a really good burger place did this first and then crappy ones showed up to copy the decor and forgot to make the food good.
Worst place I ate brought the raw burger to you next to a boiling hot slab of rock. I was expected to cook my own burger the way I liked it. Well fuck you, I'm paying you to cook my meal. Plus it just seemed disgusting to have raw meat at the table anyway
Don't forget the smugness. These types of places always have such smug staffing, like they think they shit gold or something. It's like bitch please, you're demanding someone pay a day's wage for you to fuck up ground beef. Fuck off out of here with your foofoo bullshit burger.
Copy + paste small business tyrant investment. Like a ghost kitchen. They all just copy each other because it returns a consistent profit.
There is probably some kind if grotesque item in the menu as a "draw", too. The Tower of Cheese. The Bacon Bun. The [town name] challenge, a dish made of 34 kinds of flesh. Get in here, techbros! Get your grub.
Facts. We have a burger place like this that people love for some reason, but I swear they most the mid-quality burgers for $20+. It's crazy that people keep going there, imo.
The most mediocre dining experience (for the money) I've ever had was at a restaurant called "Smallwares." Emphasis on small, it turns out. Case in point, we ordered duck breast, which cost a fair bit. I was picturing at least a fair amount, but it was the smallest smidgen slivered up with a dollop of sauce. It was the same with every dish, high prices for not much food.
Sure there were other places that had worse food. One remote dinner lacked any fresh food, but you can't really help that when you're in the middle of nowhere. But never have I felt like I was being fed by Famine from Good Omens.
A quite big Döner Brand in Germany(Berlin Döner) has shops like this and they aren't even that bad. They aren't outstandingly god but also not bad. Its maybe a bit overpriced for 6€(at least in my city it costs 6€).
There was a place like this near my old work and my boss would often offer to pay. I naturally ordered a couple mediocre burgers and overly seasoned truffle fries with sage for some reason.
Thankfully there was a similar coffee place next door, but that's a good thing in their case (that coffee was fire)
I'll have the burger whose contents are stacked too high to eat comfortably and spill out when you try to bite it, please
With a wooden stick in it half the height of the burger, if you could.
The stick is so it doesn't fall apart on the way to the table, after that it's your responsibility
And your choice of IPA, Hazy IPA, West Coast IPA, XPA, or lemon squeezed on ice and a dash of ginger ale.
Burgers need to be wider, not taller.
When I'm the King I will mandate this.
You have my vote.
No one will vote for me, I’ll take the throne with sheer bloody force.
But I appreciate the sentiment.
Craziest Burger and shakes I've ever had were in Boston.
Boston Burger Company
Adding Portland to my list now.
I love BBC.
Havent heard of this place though, Ill check it out
I also love BBC! Never been to Boston, though.
BBC is the best! I love their radio stations.
Half the staff are wearing wool beanies in dead ass middle of summer
Sides are a la carte, fries come in a metal cup with newspaper-style wax/parchment paper
The bottom bun is falls-apart-soggy by halfway through
Claims to have a huge selection of craft beers...all IPAs, a stout, a sour, and PBR
You forgot the black gloves! Those are required by law.
Burgers are served on a scaffold board/shovel/roof tile
Coleslaw is always referred to as house 'slaw.
Menu prices omit the $ sign/£ sign.
Eg. Triple cooked fries 4
"Gourmet bacon and cheese burger - 15"
15 what? Pence?
run by four interchangeable lumbersexual white guys in their mid 20s who are having the time of their lives and one white chick in her late 20s who is just so over it.
This is so like.. 2014
yeah that's about the last time i walked into one of them places.
Lol that is so spot-on I can't believe the parallels never occurred to me. One exception though, I really had good burgers in such a place in Haarlem / NL.
There's a bar here with that aesthetic. They do serve ok burgers at slightly reasonable prices, but the secret is to become friends with the cooks. Then tell them that you don't care what the upcharge is, but you want them to make you the burger they'd want and to have fun with it.
Now I can go in and say "Tell them TexasDrunk wants whatever burger they want to send out" and 9 out of 10 times I get a burger that's delicious (and sometimes insane). Usually they just charge me the regular burger price.
I don't do it often, but I got good friends and good burgers out of it.
Hell yeah! When I worked as a server, I would ask the cooks to make me a burger of the day for my lunch break. There was no "burger of the day" they just went wild and often times they required multiple "load bearing straws".
People who go into cooking generally enjoy getting to be creative. I love those insane creations that require load bearing anything (although I don't think I've seen straws, usually it's toothpicks, skewers, or pickle spears).
My absolute favorite wasn't the tastiest but it was definitely the coolest. The guy made a pretty standard bacon jalapeno burger, added some house made barbecue sauce, cut it into pieces, skewered it, and served it as the garnish for a pitcher of micheladas.
Note: A michelada is kind of what you'd get if a bloody Mary went to Mexico on vacation and added beer and spices.
Kinda sounds like what people do to Caesars around here. Buy a drink basically get a meal on a skewer sticking out of it.
It's so strange, around here there's no real difference between a bloody Mary and a bloody Caesar. I know what the difference really is but no one seems to give a shit at brunch.
However, folks around here are super proud of their micheladas. Everyone does the clamato juice with vodka, beer, and Tajin. But they all try to outdo each other with the other spices and presentation.
Other than my friend's pitcher that I loved, the place that does the best micheladas in my opinion is Captain Tom's. It's the most mediocre seafood joint that is amazing when you're getting over being fucked up. If I hadn't been to Taqueria Ruby tonight to fix myself I'd definitely be there tomorrow morning trying to feel normal.
I do that often in bars when i want a cocktail and usually the result is nice
The best burgers are found in places that look like you have to bribe a health official to get a barely passing grade
Not just burgers, that seems to be the best food in general
Or the absolute worst. And they did bribe a health official.
The best of those that I've found are often restaurant/something else in the same building. Like restaurant/laundromat. Or restaurant/rug shop.
An angry Turkish man who doesn't say hello, just glares sullenly at you until you order.
I went to a place like this once. Had a bison burger (?) and it was avtually fucking delicious. The fries were just "fries" but they weren't bad in any way. Above average in flavor and consistency.
I'm guessing most places like this are garbage and the one time I went, I got lucky.
It just the generic “burger place“ design. I haven't seen a burger restaurant that doesn't look like this.
So it logically follows that all the bad ones will look like it
Yeah the good burger places look mostly like this too. Or they did, and everyone copied it.
A lot of em make good burgers, too. Just not $35 with fries level good
I hate $20 prices for burgers as much as the next warm blooded American but they are usually great. It’s a burger after all. That said it’s all about that bun!
I live in northern VA and all the burger and bbq joints look like this, mostly.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of culinary science...?
Everything else is just a really good sear and not overdoing the toppings too much. Don't even need fancy beef, just 80/20 chuck can deliver top notch results.
Not in my opinion; for me its always the shabby looking shacks that have the best burgers. Mostly were the locals go
Oldschool ones
Most of them are mediocre. Most burger places were mediocre, and then the American gastropub trend saw burgers being made nice as opposed to diner food or bar food. They could also charge more money because they were making nicer food.
Eventually a bunch of the mediocre places shifted to try to also be nice, but mostly just increased prices, changed decor, and started using the word aioli more than mayo. Oh, and pretzel buns on burgers that got taller without being bigger and are cumbersome to eat.
In the plus side, if you like a Swiss burger with a garlic aioli, a burger with a fried egg on it, or a burger with 2 pieces of bacon, a spicy BBQ sauce, and fried onion strings and you're in the mood for some fries with bits of peel on them and a garlic Parmesan butter, then you know exactly what they're going to put in from of you and exactly what it'll taste like.
Mediocre. Not bad, but definitely not the best you've ever had.
Lol I was JUST showing this to my wife and adding, and they use "aioli" on everything haha
Bison is worth the price tag for sure. These places only pretend to have that kind of power.
I lived near a bison farm for a while, bison meat is just amazing, much juicier than beef.
So the city I live in has a few of these and they're some of the best burgers in town, for fairly reasonable prices.
There's a fucking war on here for the best burger and I'm so happy for it. We don't fuck around with burgers.
They're so good and reasonably priced that the first time I saw this meme I was a little confused. Like yeah the aesthetic is kinda lame but that doesn't change the food. Maybe the stools aren't comfortable but like, there are regular tables. Like what's the problem??
Then I went to another city.
My friends, I am so, so, sorry. You don't deserve this. Good burgers aren't hard, they're really not. Just stay home, invest in a griddle. Even if it's just a small one for your stove top, you can make better burgers at home. Make friends with a local butcher, he won't steer you wrong. I don't know what caused that trend but I know the only way to stop it is to stop going.
My city has both, and they're decorated the same. I just wonder whether a really good burger place did this first and then crappy ones showed up to copy the decor and forgot to make the food good.
Worst place I ate brought the raw burger to you next to a boiling hot slab of rock. I was expected to cook my own burger the way I liked it. Well fuck you, I'm paying you to cook my meal. Plus it just seemed disgusting to have raw meat at the table anyway
Is this like American hot pot?
Australian hot pot, you have to catch the sheep yourself.
It's not a restaurant but the sheep looks kinda hot.
Pretty common grilling meat yourself in Japan, but for a steak just asking for how you want it done makes way more sens.
Funnily enough, I'm Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?
Australian and it's accurate here. I suspect the trend is common wherever there's a market for hipster burger places
Yeah I guess the trend as been imported to Europe in general, French here.
Although in France some aren't bad, just mid. The problem is they are ALL overpriced.
I'm Indian, it's accurate here too in most cities lol
Netherlands too. I've learned to avoid such places.
And its name is always like some suburbanite place: The Yard, Patio Patties, Culdesac Restaurant & Bar
Either that or it sounds like they chose 2 Monopoly pieces at random
The Top Hat & Thimble
The Boot & Iron
The Wheelbarrow & Cannon
Sed Porttitor isn't even that good, I dunno why they need it on their menu a half a dozen times.
You gotta try the Proin Ultrices
At the risk of playing into the stereotype: But what about Ut Gravida?
Yeah but only the #2 dessert ut gravida is any good. The #2 ut gravida main dish is for suckers.
remember r/WeWantPlates ?
They have one here! I just subbed to it! All we need is wewantcups.
r/moreplatesmoredates
+ chef wearing black gloves
And a beard.
Described like half of all restaurants.
Seen this meme tons of times and I never noticed the menu was lorem ipsum
This is absolutely not true.
Sometimes it's a very mediocre $8 taco.
Don't forget the smugness. These types of places always have such smug staffing, like they think they shit gold or something. It's like bitch please, you're demanding someone pay a day's wage for you to fuck up ground beef. Fuck off out of here with your foofoo bullshit burger.
The beer menu is on a chalkboard all the way across the bar and you can't see it.
And they're out of the good ones.
Copy + paste small business tyrant investment. Like a ghost kitchen. They all just copy each other because it returns a consistent profit.
There is probably some kind if grotesque item in the menu as a "draw", too. The Tower of Cheese. The Bacon Bun. The [town name] challenge, a dish made of 34 kinds of flesh. Get in here, techbros! Get your grub.
Facts. We have a burger place like this that people love for some reason, but I swear they most the mid-quality burgers for $20+. It's crazy that people keep going there, imo.
Portland 2005, except it's damn near impossible to get a bad meal in Portland. Best food I ever had consistently in my life.
[edit] Oregon
Portland, TX has some pretty shitty food fyi
All I know of Texas food is Burnt Ends and a Whiskey scene that's just over the fucking top insane with no end in sight.
No brisket or BBQ? That's a shame.
Haven't eaten in Texas ....
Eh-n-Out sounds better.
I wouldn't judge a book by its cover. Following aesthetic trends is just being savvy, it's not necessarily compensating for something.
SED PORTTITOR
The most mediocre dining experience (for the money) I've ever had was at a restaurant called "Smallwares." Emphasis on small, it turns out. Case in point, we ordered duck breast, which cost a fair bit. I was picturing at least a fair amount, but it was the smallest smidgen slivered up with a dollop of sauce. It was the same with every dish, high prices for not much food.
Sure there were other places that had worse food. One remote dinner lacked any fresh food, but you can't really help that when you're in the middle of nowhere. But never have I felt like I was being fed by Famine from Good Omens.
But where else do I get my malt vinegar fix?
A quite big Döner Brand in Germany(Berlin Döner) has shops like this and they aren't even that bad. They aren't outstandingly god but also not bad. Its maybe a bit overpriced for 6€(at least in my city it costs 6€).
The burger is fine, but the sides are usually amazing.
If they're good they'll be overpriced
There was a place like this near my old work and my boss would often offer to pay. I naturally ordered a couple mediocre burgers and overly seasoned truffle fries with sage for some reason.
Thankfully there was a similar coffee place next door, but that's a good thing in their case (that coffee was fire)
true, but even mid burgers are a fave from where i’m standing
But you can get a mid burger for way less than $30
Yeah! McDonald's is only charging $20 per burger these days!
McDonald's doesn't offer quality like mid burgers.
I was joking. I guess that wasn't clear. Agreed, McD's is negative quality. Serving up Fallout 4 Pink Food Paste.
Holy shit people. You are all incredibly whiny bunch
Maybe I am spoiled by my three good burger places in one kilometre radius from my house one of which declared me persona non grata