Upscale junk food? Who would believe it?! So read the shocked reviews of this mediocre burger joint. The locally-raised “kobe” beef patties are small, dry, and overcooked. A bizarre combo veggie burger and kobe is equally disappointing, with the veggie patty’s strong crab-cake-without-the-crab’s taste overpowering the meager beef patty. Fries are advertised as cooked in olive oil, which seems like cynical marketing since plenty of other unsaturated fats are far more suitable for deep-frying. In any event our fries were greasy and oversalted. Homemade milkshakes are the lone standout, though made too thick to be truly enjoyable. Even in its aggressively franchised state, Five Guys blows this place out of the water.
The Quintessence of Ham
The story of his assiette of popes-eyes, the quintessence of ham for sauce, and the gravy of twenty-two partridges for sauce for a brace, was always beyond the credit of any sensible person. –William Verral, A Complete System of Cookery