I had been hearing about this joint for a while, and when one opened up close enough I decided to give it a go. The restaurant makes me feel like I was a kid again, they have giant bags of peanuts you can eat, and although your probably not supposed to throw them on the ground (which we did as kids) it was a good trip to memory lane. I went with a bacon cheese burger, surprise surprise.... Honestly it was decent, but pretty much two big pieces of moderate quality beef, that was over cooked and overly greasy. I would not call this place a complete bust though, their fries may be the greatest fries any burger place has ever created. These greasy potato sticks are seasoned with their signature "Cajun spice", I could probably eat about 5 pounds of those beauties alone. Apparently they use peanut oil as their frying agent, seems to be the key secret ingredient for that amazing flavor profile! Again being a fast food place they don't serve beer, plus they don't have any fancy milkshakes to make up for their poor choices in beverages, a double negative. This place lacks in selection for drinks and toppings, yes granted they have "a lot" of toppings to choose from, nothing really stands out from what you would expect on any burger. I wish I could rate the fries and burger separately for this one, because truthfully the fries I will return for, but everything else was underwhelming, and I probably would eat a cardboard box before eating another one of those burgers.
Overall this place is an overpriced dud, but I will return for the fries... and the fries alone. Sorry Five Guys, but you get a 2 1/2 on my burgs and beer scale, see yah wouldn't want to be yah.
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