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Alicia and I had our most frustrating weekends to date, as we tried to check out about 6 places.
We set out with 2 places in our sights. We wanted to hit up a place called Willie's Burgers and the famous Squeeze Inn. Unfortunately for us, Squeeze Inn is closed on Sundays! We were slightly disappointed, but decided to go with one of our backups. There is a little burger place that I pass by everyday that I catch the light rail train, called Jim-Denny's Lunch. We drove up to downtown Sacramento, stomachs-a-growlin', only to find out that Jim-Denny wasn't up for the challenge of serving us a great burger on a Sunday either! We then decide to head out towards Howe ave, so that we could try a place close to Alicia's house. This place was called Jasper's Giant Burgers. Once again, we headed out with high expectations, only to have them deflated by the fact that this burger place was closed on Sundays. Saddened, we tried yet another place, this one closer to my house, called Stockton Burgers and Grill. ONCE AGAIN we find a burger place that was closed on Sunday. It didn't seem we would be able to even get a burger at all to go with the Willie's Burger experience...
So onto the burgers we did get....
Willie's Burgers
Burger: Slamburger with bacon and cheese
Score (Out of 10)
Alicia: 5
Justin: 5
This burger place was actually cool to walk into. It had a nice feel. As far as the burgers go, I was quite surprised to see that the burgers were less than four dollars each! When we got our burger, we saw what a burger under four dollars looked like. It was a smaller burger (compared to the other burgers that we'd had so far). It was pretty good for a little burger though. My first thoughts were that it tasted like a glorified jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendy's. Alicia thought initially that the burger tasted very much "breakfast sandwich-y". I thought that for the size it was, it had too much onion on it. I would be interested in going back, prolly during the late night hours, as the idea of chili on one of those burgers sounds like it would be really good after a night of hanging out.
Scott's Burger Shack
Burger: ½ Pound Fatboy with Bacon
Score (Out of 10)
Alicia: 6
Justin: undecided (somewhere btwn. 6 or 6.5)
We found Scott's Burger Shack on the fly. We were literally in the car, driving towards my house, and I decided to type burgers into my sprint navigation on my phone. When I first saw it, I thought that it was a little too shady looking to have good burgers. I initially told Alicia that we should leave and go to another place that shall be added to the list of our places to check out later on. Once we were in the parking lot, I decided against trying to check out another place, due to the fact that it's usually true that some of the shadiest/dirtiest places are usually homes to the best food. We walk up to the little window, and the lady working there offers us a menu. The menu that she handed me was a 3 page delight. This place had CRAZY amounts of different foods. They had 24 different hamburger choices alone!!! They also had tacos, burritos, taquitos, hot dogs, and sub sandwiches. We decided that we'd get our staple burger with bacon and cheese. When they served us the burger, we were skeptical, as it came in a little brown bag, just like Willie's. When we opened up the bag, we were very shocked. Alicia noted: "It looks really big for the price!" The burger we got, as we ordered it, was less than 5 dollars. VERY ECONOMICAL. It looked really good, but as I ate it, I was disappointed with it. I couldn't decide what was up with it. Alicia had a brilliant idea though...
RE-DO!!!
Scores (Out of 10)
Alicia: 7
Justin: 7.5
Alicia thought that the condiments that were currently on the first burger (ketchup and mustard) didn't really do it justice. She made a note of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the burgers that we tried, had a "special sauce" or 1000 island dressing, instead of ketchup and mustard (except burger and brew). She thought that we should try the same burger with 1000 island dressing instead. So we deliberated a bit, and we decided that we would try another one with the 1000 island instead.
I thought it was a rather simple and crazy fix, but once I bit into the burger, my idea changed. Alicia said that with the new sauce on it, that it made the burger for her. I thought that it really tasted like a completely different burger. The first time around the meat didn't really have any real taste to it. The second time around, I could definitely taste the flavor of the meat. I was also able to tell that there was actually relish and pickles on the burger! Such a small change was a game changer for the burger from the burger shack. It became a very tasty burger, and has influenced our decision to try to have the special sauce whenever possible.
So our crazy afternoon of burger hunting turned out to have great results. We found a great burger place with really good burgers, and we found a place that would definitely be one we'd visit again and again. Just for special note, both burgers this week totalled less than the price of one of the burgers from each of the first five places that we went to. Those tended to run about 7-9 bucks each, and both burgers that we had were under 5 bucks each.
until next time!
I'm out...
We set out with 2 places in our sights. We wanted to hit up a place called Willie's Burgers and the famous Squeeze Inn. Unfortunately for us, Squeeze Inn is closed on Sundays! We were slightly disappointed, but decided to go with one of our backups. There is a little burger place that I pass by everyday that I catch the light rail train, called Jim-Denny's Lunch. We drove up to downtown Sacramento, stomachs-a-growlin', only to find out that Jim-Denny wasn't up for the challenge of serving us a great burger on a Sunday either! We then decide to head out towards Howe ave, so that we could try a place close to Alicia's house. This place was called Jasper's Giant Burgers. Once again, we headed out with high expectations, only to have them deflated by the fact that this burger place was closed on Sundays. Saddened, we tried yet another place, this one closer to my house, called Stockton Burgers and Grill. ONCE AGAIN we find a burger place that was closed on Sunday. It didn't seem we would be able to even get a burger at all to go with the Willie's Burger experience...
So onto the burgers we did get....
Willie's Burgers
Burger: Slamburger with bacon and cheese
Score (Out of 10)
Alicia: 5
Justin: 5
This burger place was actually cool to walk into. It had a nice feel. As far as the burgers go, I was quite surprised to see that the burgers were less than four dollars each! When we got our burger, we saw what a burger under four dollars looked like. It was a smaller burger (compared to the other burgers that we'd had so far). It was pretty good for a little burger though. My first thoughts were that it tasted like a glorified jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendy's. Alicia thought initially that the burger tasted very much "breakfast sandwich-y". I thought that for the size it was, it had too much onion on it. I would be interested in going back, prolly during the late night hours, as the idea of chili on one of those burgers sounds like it would be really good after a night of hanging out.
Scott's Burger Shack
Burger: ½ Pound Fatboy with Bacon
Score (Out of 10)
Alicia: 6
Justin: undecided (somewhere btwn. 6 or 6.5)
We found Scott's Burger Shack on the fly. We were literally in the car, driving towards my house, and I decided to type burgers into my sprint navigation on my phone. When I first saw it, I thought that it was a little too shady looking to have good burgers. I initially told Alicia that we should leave and go to another place that shall be added to the list of our places to check out later on. Once we were in the parking lot, I decided against trying to check out another place, due to the fact that it's usually true that some of the shadiest/dirtiest places are usually homes to the best food. We walk up to the little window, and the lady working there offers us a menu. The menu that she handed me was a 3 page delight. This place had CRAZY amounts of different foods. They had 24 different hamburger choices alone!!! They also had tacos, burritos, taquitos, hot dogs, and sub sandwiches. We decided that we'd get our staple burger with bacon and cheese. When they served us the burger, we were skeptical, as it came in a little brown bag, just like Willie's. When we opened up the bag, we were very shocked. Alicia noted: "It looks really big for the price!" The burger we got, as we ordered it, was less than 5 dollars. VERY ECONOMICAL. It looked really good, but as I ate it, I was disappointed with it. I couldn't decide what was up with it. Alicia had a brilliant idea though...
RE-DO!!!
Scores (Out of 10)
Alicia: 7
Justin: 7.5
Alicia thought that the condiments that were currently on the first burger (ketchup and mustard) didn't really do it justice. She made a note of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the burgers that we tried, had a "special sauce" or 1000 island dressing, instead of ketchup and mustard (except burger and brew). She thought that we should try the same burger with 1000 island dressing instead. So we deliberated a bit, and we decided that we would try another one with the 1000 island instead.
I thought it was a rather simple and crazy fix, but once I bit into the burger, my idea changed. Alicia said that with the new sauce on it, that it made the burger for her. I thought that it really tasted like a completely different burger. The first time around the meat didn't really have any real taste to it. The second time around, I could definitely taste the flavor of the meat. I was also able to tell that there was actually relish and pickles on the burger! Such a small change was a game changer for the burger from the burger shack. It became a very tasty burger, and has influenced our decision to try to have the special sauce whenever possible.
So our crazy afternoon of burger hunting turned out to have great results. We found a great burger place with really good burgers, and we found a place that would definitely be one we'd visit again and again. Just for special note, both burgers this week totalled less than the price of one of the burgers from each of the first five places that we went to. Those tended to run about 7-9 bucks each, and both burgers that we had were under 5 bucks each.
until next time!
I'm out...