Five Guys Burgers

[Kcwhippet]

This is really for IK, but anyone else interested can follow along. Anyway, I very rarely go over to ebob to see what's happening and only for the food stuff, and I was just there and saw a thread on Five Guys Burgers that started about 4 months ago. IK, we have a Five Guys very near to us and we've tried it. Basically, it is what it is. Fresh meat made into burgers right before your eyes with whatever toppings from their long list that you want on it. Also, they make their fries fresh - right before your eyes - from 100 pound bags of potatoes lined up along the wall. You get whatever you want just the way you want it, so if the folks on ebob didn't like what they got, they ordered the wrong thing, and they deserve what they got. Frankly, I like the food at Five Guys, but then I'm not a food snob, like some of those clowns over there (not you IK, of course).

[winoweenie]

An outrageous collection of the worst kind of wine snobs. Out here we have the similarly killer "In-N-Out Burger" chain. Hard not to like them suckers. WW

[Innkeeper]

I notice that there is one coming to Nashua soon. So, if I'm ever there, and haven't been yet, we might give them a try.

[andrawes76]

There is a ridiculous burger joint here in Austin in case you guys ever end up here. Casino Camino is a wicked place (I mean the entire place is painted black) on 6th Street. They have a serrano pepper gourmet burger. Its hot as hell, but absolutely incredible with their hatch pepper chili fries. I must try Five Guys burgers when I am in the area this Fall.

[Kcwhippet]

What area??

[Thomas]

Drives me nuts that you can't hardly find a real burger, from fresh ground meat instead of the hard, frozen pucks that most places serve. I gave up eating burgers in diners and restaurants. Same for the fries.

Wish we had a place like Five Guys somewhere in this part of NY.

I remember ever so fondly the local ice cream parlor in my Brooklyn neighborhood, where the guy behind the counter took a large ball of fresh ground meat out of the fridge, and a handful of fresh-cut potatoes then proceeded to make the best damned lunch on the planet.

[Kcwhippet]

Foodie, There's a Five Guys in Binghamton. It's about 100 miles from you, but it's there if you're game to try it.

IK, I believe the Five Guys is now open in Nashua on Amherst St. It's near my daughter's place up there and I think they've gone.

[wondersofwine]

I'm curious to try the In'n'Out Burgers here after reading about them (you order a 2 x 2 etc. for two beef patties and two slices of cheese.) I noticed one of these places recently but haven't been in yet. When I taught for a year near Detroit, there was a place that served wonderful ground round burgers with a lazy susan to spin around and help yourself to toppings. Best burgers I've ever had. It was probably a local restaurant and not part of a chain.

[TheEngineer]

WoW,

I go to In-n-out all the time for jsut the Fries and the burgers aren't bad either. Just like WW said, freshly made, even got old fashion fries cutter in each. The one I go to is jsut outside of the Oakland airport jsut before you get on I880. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

there is even a low carb option where they use lettuce to wrap the burger and they delete the bread.....you still get the fries though.... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] price is same as other fastfood joints

[This message has been edited by TheEngineer (edited 08-18-2009).]

[Thomas]

KC, 100 miles for a burger? That will have to wait until I'm going that way, which is on the way to NYCity for me.

Engineer, a low carb burger is akin to eating tofu-meat. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

[TheEngineer]

[img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] I've never done that option yet .... had thought about it a few times but not sure that I wanted Ketchup running down the lettuce onto my shirt [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] I do order diet coke though....just for the taste of it I'm sure.... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]