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Overrated burger restaurants

Balanadan

Will these go the way of donut shops eventually? There's a good few chains out there now, both Irish and foreign-owned, that sell only basic burgers, chips, and drinks for extortionate prices considering what you get for the money. You could pay almost €15 just for an average burger, chips and a drink. It's just fast food. The owners and shareholders must be absolutely coining it.

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Crock Rock

They are usually frequented by hipsters who pay €50 for a burger where you'd get a much nicer one in the chipper.

The last one I went to (which was my first and final visit to such an establishment) didn't even have regular salt! They had some ghastly yellow powder which only tasted remotely salty and had a weird aftertaste.
Thank God I tasted a bit from the back of my hand before lacing it on my chips.

Guy:Incognito

Crock Rock wrote: »

They are usually frequented by hipsters who pay €50 for a burger where you'd get a much nicer one in the chipper.

Where sells €50 burgers?

Yamanoto

Crock Rock wrote: »

They are usually frequented by hipsters who pay €50 for a burger where you'd get a much nicer one in the chipper.

Nah, not having that.

Remove the buns, fried onions, lettuce & mayo and the common or garden chipper burger shows itself for what it is - gristled hoof parts and reconstituted Otter anus.

Maurice Yeltsin

Crock Rock wrote: »

They are usually frequented by hipsters who pay €50 for a burger where you'd get a much nicer one in the chipper.

The last one I went to (which was my first and final visit to such an establishment) didn't even have regular salt! They had some ghastly yellow powder which only tasted remotely salty and had a weird aftertaste.
Thank God I tasted a bit from the back of my hand before lacing it on my chips.

Chicken salt?

It is, strangely, the standard salt over in Australia, there you have to specifically ask for sea salt.

Their chippers aren't up to much either.

pauliebdub

5 guys really isn't great, the burger is okay but the mountain of chips you get are already heavily salted and soggy. The one in George's St is never particularly busy.

Better to go to Wowburger for nicer chips, a nicer shake and more or less the same burger and save a fiver.

Bunsen is the best burger but I hate waiting in the street to get in or being told to come back in 20 mins. It's just hassle.

pauliebdub

I have no idea how Eddie Rockets is still successful. The food anytime I've been there was mediocre.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

glasso wrote: »

another internet definition

burger meets that definition. quick to prepare, cook and serve. quality is not alluded to in fast food.

I make my own burgers, it's anything but quick to prepare. A burger will take as long as a fillet steak, a tuna steak or a piece of fish to cook and I am not sure what you are getting at there with the serving part. Fast food is fast food, the food itself is not important.

Ave Sodalis

Outlaw Pete wrote:

Love Five Guys, just wish they'd use non-processed cheese. I even love their chips, which all I seem to hear is bad things about.

I don't eat cheese so no worries there!

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glasso wrote: »

burger meets that definition. quick to prepare, cook and serve. quality is not alluded to in fast food.

One place I go to always warns you when you order the burger that there is a 25 minute wait as they prepare the burgers to order. That’s anything but fast!

Outlaw Pete

Just had this burger delivered. If anyone can guess the Dublin establishment that delivered it I'll get Just Eat to bring you one.

You have 20 mins (about enough time for me to eat it and let you know what I think of it - it's my first time ordering from them).

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Matteo Hissing Hallway wrote: »

I make my own burgers, it's anything but quick to prepare. A burger will take as long as a fillet steak, a tuna steak or a piece of fish to cook and I am not sure what you are getting at there with the serving part. Fast food is fast food, the food itself is not important.

a fillet steak should be cooked in a few minutes - would certainly want a burger cooked much longer than that.

pretty bad analogy there and makes me wonder how much you know about food.

Outlaw Pete

No takers.. it was Pinheads Pizza and a Rib Eye steak burger apparently, and for just €6 too.

Think I'll have to revise my choice of ' best value burger' from Rick's to them.

A tasty burger © for sure.

Gwynplaine

What about some of the pretentious stuff you see served on a slate or a chopping board, with 5 chips in a miniature shopping trolley.

Ash.J.Williams

ceadaoin. wrote: »

The five guys in the UK is extortionate too. I can get a meal here for around $10. That's with more fries than I can normally eat and free soda refills. Don't know why they ramp the price up so much abroad.

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TomasMacR

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Where sells €50 burgers?

The Five Guys €50 burger. It's not on the menu, ask for it. Say you want the €50 burger, they'll bring you one of their regular sh*t ones but will gladly take your €50. It tastes so good though because you paid €50 and there's 'free' monkey nuts near by for who knows what reason.

TomasMacR

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Just had this burger delivered. If anyone can guess the Dublin establishment that delivered it I'll get Just Eat to bring you one.

You have 20 mins (about enough time for me to eat it and let you know what I think of it - it's my first time ordering from them).

f*ck, that looks good. especially for a delivery. that bun looks perfect.

MarkY91

I love chili shack and wow burger. Eddie tickets is nice enough.

Never had 5 guys

Been to Bunsen a few times and always left wondering Wtf the big deal is. Never been satisfied there.

Went to bobos a few times and been tasteless ****e every time.

nice_guy80

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

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Ash.J.Williams

The m50 burger in eddie rockets is worth trying... Proper fried onions are a game changer

jiltloop

glasso wrote: »

dudara wrote: »

Fast food by definition is mass produced for sale in high volume, high speed, mass market outlets. There are a lot of burger restaurants that don’t meet that definition. It’s very unfair to consider all burgers to be fast food.

another internet definition

Fast food is food which is prepared and served quickly

burger meets that definition. quick to prepare, cook and serve. quality is not alluded to in fast food.

I think you're misunderstanding the preparation part. In fast food restaurants the prep involves buying in the sauces and patties premade whereas in restaurants they quite often make the patties and sauces from scratch.

Therefore the prep is not the same as fast food.

travist

Wells Warm Reformer wrote: »

It’s actually very nice surprised at so many people saying it isn’t.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/restaurant-reviews/my-worst-ever-meal-as-a-restaurant-reviewer-1.3521284

vicwatson

Maurice Yeltsin wrote: »

I found that BuJo in Sandymount that everyone on t'internet raves about to be awfully dry and bland.

Thankfully there's a regular chipper next door to it, far nicer.

I do find Five Guys delicious (well, the burgers, the chips are muck). Wowburger is very similar to them and a bit cheaper. Nicer chips too.

Bunsen is grand, I found the service a bit meh in the one off Grafton St though (standing for fecking ages trying to pay after finishing).

One thing...well...I wouldn't say off putting, but odd all the same, the female staff in these places are usually alternative types. More the types you'd find at a repeal march than manning the makeup counter in Boots.

Of course, main thing to remember is what form advertising takes these days. All of these places, donut shops, cafes, bleedin Coppers, they're just thrust into the public consciousness now via paid reviews from rubbish like Joe.ie and the truly awful Lovin Dublin.

Another note- not an artisan burger spot obviously, but Abrakebara really do do a tasty tasty burger.

If you are talking about Borzas this was closed down, is it back open?

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travist wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/restaurant-reviews/my-worst-ever-meal-as-a-restaurant-reviewer-1.3521284

I should add I’ve only ever eaten in 5 guys in the US so possibly not a fair comparison with one in Dublin.

Sgt Hartman

Coqbull in Limerick, now there's an amazing burger place. I agree with a lot of what's been said about 5 Guys, it's an okay burger but it's overpriced and served with greasy fries.

danger mouse

Paid 20 euro for a burger and chips at TGI Fridays last week. Terrible burger and grossly over priced. Actually I felt robbed!

How Soon Is Now

jiltloop wrote: »

I think you're misunderstanding the preparation part. In fast food restaurants the prep involves buying in the sauces and patties premade whereas in restaurants they quite often make the patties and sauces from scratch.

Therefore the prep is not the same as fast food.

Excatly ive worked in both very different. Burger King for example the only thing that was actually prepped was the tomato. Everything else comes out of a box. It was exactly fast food you would literally be putting together 5 or 6 burgers as fast as possible when busy no bull**** just get it out!

Then when I worked in Generator totally different there was a lot of prep involved starting first thing in the morning making sauces chopping veg making pattys etc etc. No pre cooked meat then like fast food places everything done there and then.

Obviously the more familiar you got with it u could put a few together at quicker pace but unlike the fast food places u had to actually cook the food and keep it to a high standard if I didn't like the look of it I wasn't handing it out ha.

I haven't been in the place since I left more then a year ago but if its not as nice as it was at its peak I'm not really surprised based on how much constant change was going on.

Outlaw Pete

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Where sells €50 burgers?

I paid €35 for a burger from a place in Ranelagh once (accroos from that car alarm place which I also can't remember the name of).

It was a delivery via that Restaurant Express place years back before Deliveroo came about.

Needless to say it was during the boom and from what I recall it was made with massaged New Zealand beef or something.

Was okay but didn't feel it was worth €35 but then not sure what it would have needed to taste like from me to have felt it was.

Zaph

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Coqbull in Limerick, now there's an amazing burger place.

Well I hope it's better than the one in Cork, that was one of the worst burgers I've had anywhere over the last few years.

emilymemily

Eddie Rockets, even if the food was good it would still be considered over priced but its a complete rip off for what theyre serving.

cocaliquid

Once the Beef is processed made into Burgers it can be labeled as Irish. Just a quick google of meat scandals will open peoples eyes whats happening.

Make your own burgers at least you can see the quality of the meat.