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.
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.
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
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.
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.
“In-N-Eh”
Eh-n-Out sounds better.
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.
People like to think they have refined taste, most do not.
And not just when it comes to food. But art and even basic decor and fashion as well.
It has a tendency to come down to “Is it expensive? Then It’s fancy”.
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.
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.
An angry Turkish man who doesn’t say hello, just glares sullenly at you until you order.
The best of those that I’ve found are often restaurant/something else in the same building. Like restaurant/laundromat. Or restaurant/rug shop.
see: all of Spain
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
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Half the staff are wearing wool beanies in dead ass middle of summer
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Sides are a la carte, fries come in a metal cup with newspaper-style wax/parchment paper
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The bottom bun is falls-apart-soggy by halfway through
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Claims to have a huge selection of craft beers…all IPAs, a stout, a sour, and PBR
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.
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Burgers are served on a scaffold board/shovel/roof tile
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Coleslaw is always referred to as house 'slaw.
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Menu prices omit the $ sign/£ sign.
Eg. Triple cooked fries 4
Menu prices omit the $ sign/£ sign.
“Gourmet bacon and cheese burger - 15”
15 what? Pence?
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You forgot the black gloves! Those are required by law.
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.
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Portland 2005, except it’s damn near impossible to get a bad meal in Portland. Best food I ever had consistently in my life.
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.
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€).
6€ is overpriced in Berlin? I need to move 🚗
Not in Berlin. The Brand calls themselves Berlin Döner and they operate in other Citys too. I personally got better Döner for the same money(in my region).
Funnily enough, I’m Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?
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.
Australian and it’s accurate here. I suspect the trend is common wherever there’s a market for hipster burger places
Exactly the same in Canada, the black metal bar stool, light, fixture, black brick, wood, etc. It is a starter pack for burger restaurant.
I’m Indian, it’s accurate here too in most cities lol
Burgercore!
