I started with a place with burger in its own name at
Cheeseburger in Paradise in Lombard. They have a choice of thirteen custom
burger choices but for this review I picked the old stable of a bacon cheese
burger and they had a bacon cheddar burger I was eyeing. The meat was tasty
though a tad dry for my liking, but the bacon was nicely crisp. Its only real
down fall is there choice of using tasteless shredded iceberg lettuce.
Next up I went to a place you might not think of when you
want a burger but theirs are defiantly worth a look. Buffalo Wild Wings has
many good choices for someone craving a beef patty, and I went with one of
their new Juicy Steak Burgers. Although it’s not the bacon cheddar burger I was
planning on getting, this one seemed to pop out at me the most. It is two
slammer patties sandwiching some moist sliced steak and in the middle of that
is a fried onion ring. With a topping of pepper jack cheese and some BBQ sauce,
this is one juicy and damn good burger.
Now we go to a place I have loved since first bite, Five
Guys. What I love about this place the entire burger is designed to suit your
imagination. The quality of ingredients and price is unmatched. I went with a
classic of mine, a bacon cheeseburger with mustard and onions. Only this trip I
got two. Hey, with a place this good, one isn’t enough to satisfy you and your
going to want seconds. As always, the bacon was crisp, the meat juicy, and the
cheese melted to hold everything together.
Wow so many burgers in so little time, it is getting hard to
keep going. I’ve started to get a salad every other day to offset the amount of
meat I’ve been inhaling. I’m sure my body will thank me somehow.
When my taste for a good burger returned after my green
vacation, I went to Red Robin. I got my normal order, a bacon cheeseburger.
Sadly, this one wasn’t as great as ones I have had before. The meat was bland and
the bacon limp. This was a disappointment considering I usually have very good
burgers from them in the past but at least there pretzel bites were tasty.
You might ask why I haven’t gone to any fast food places so
far, but don’t worry, I’ve that covered as well. Wendy’s has been flipping
patties since 1969, and, out of all the fast food places that are out there, I think
this is the best fast food place for a burger. They cook everything to order
and their meat is advertised to never be frozen. Whether this makes for a
better burger or not, I can’t tell. That’s what I have taste buds for and they
are happy with what I received. What I ordered was a baconator, two patties
with tons of bacon and cheese all over. You know the drill. Burger was defiantly
good but their new sea salt fries are just plain bad.
Last and, yes, least, I went to the most popular fast food
chain in America. I am talking about McDonald’s. I have been putting this off
as long as I could, but sadly I can’t any longer. I’m going to have to sit down
and just take a bite out of the golden arches. I didn’t always hate this place.
I still go there every now and then for a drink or some fries, but over the
years I just lost all interest in their burgers. To me, their patties are
something out of a science lab. They are over salted and the meat seems to be
barely held together by some kind of fatty glue. I got a double quarter pounder
with cheese, as I suspected, it was a salty mess with a bizarre tower of
pickles in the middle and a random spattering of onions. This is the burger
that can ruin all other burgers for good, but I know the fix for this. A trip
to Sweet Tomatoes for some veggie therapy is just the cure for what I suffered
under those damn golden arches.
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