What's the real difference

[regexcellent]

I can get perfectly good burgers here. In my opinion the best ones are at Five Guys. Fuddruckers is close, although the only one nearby is in Buffalo.

[-Jrabbit]

People hated it so much they created and joined an anti-five guys facebook group.

Really? You're hanging your "huge numbers hate them" argument on a FB page with 28 likes and maybe a half-dozen posts in over a year???

Oerdin, your evaluation seems in direct conflict with other opinions, and does not match my experience there. (Been there twice, once at LaGuardia, once locally around Chicago.) I judge them as overpriced, but far from inedible. I mean, it's just a damned burger. So I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that perhaps your local 5Guys is pretty bad, but may not be representative of the typical 5Guys location.

Radical idea, I know.

[Dinner]

I tried two different locations with the same results than refused to try more. Sure, it is possible that some where there is indeed a five guys which isn't horrible but so far I haven't found it and have deemed it not worth bothering to look for given that I can easily find better burger places all over.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Five Guys

[regexcellent]

Virginia hamburgers > California hamburgers

[Dinner]

Willful ignorance is just a shame.

[-Jrabbit]

Pretty rare for me to do fast food chain burgers these days. When I do, it's usually Steak N Shake.

[Ben Kenobi]

Really? You're hanging your "huge numbers hate them" argument on a FB page with 28 likes and maybe a half-dozen posts in over a year???

I think that's the first thanks I've ever handed out to JR. Also congrats on the asskicking in FF.

[kentonio]

How did a thread about Michelin stars end up with yet another rant about ****ing burger joints? Americans..

[molly bloom]

Pretentious, hipster morons.

If you want a steak, eat a steak. Eating ground meat rare is something morons would do.

Or the Italians and French and Belgians and British... steak tartare is quite popular in other countries. But then, so are chicken's feet and fish lips. And water scorpions and snake's blood.

Chacun a son gout...

[Dinner]

Pretty rare for me to do fast food chain burgers these days. When I do, it's usually Steak N Shake.

I got diagnosed with high blood pressure last week so I've had to do a complete lifestyle change. I used to eat out 15-18 times per week, almost every meal, but now there is going to be a lot more cooking at home as I'm on a low fat, low salt diet. I'm walk/jogging (it depends on how I feel) 5 miles a day four days per week and swimming laps three days per week. If I keep eating right and doing my daily exercises then hopefully I'll be able to enjoy the eating out a few times a week but gone are the days of eating out all the time.

[Dinner]

Or the Italians and French and Belgians and British... steak tartare is quite popular in other countries. But then, so are chicken's feet and fish lips. And water scorpions and snake's blood.

Chacun a son gout...

Chicken feet I've had (they were ok but nothing special) but fish lips just sounds nasty. Steak tartare however is lovely on a crusty bit of bread.

[molly bloom]

I got diagnosed with high blood pressure last week so I've had to do a complete lifestyle change. .

Have you thought of not visiting the Off Topic Forum ? (Just kidding... good luck with the healthy regime. I hope it works for you.)

[MikeH]

I think the question in the OP is an interesting one, I've only ever been to 1* restaurants - would be interested in what the difference is with 2*. To be honest, I'm not sure I'd see the need to have anything with better food, wine or service than the 1*s I've been to.



Interesting that it became a burger troll not a "I don't earn that much in a month!" alby troll though.

[molly bloom]

Chicken feet I've had (they were ok but nothing special) but fish lips just sounds nasty. Steak tartare however is lovely on a crusty bit of bread.

I love chicken's feet- and duck's webs. Whenever I have them for dim sum in a new restaurant, I often get the waitress asking me if I know what they are...

They never say that about the chicken's blood casserole or tripe with chilli and black beans. And they usually say when they see me tucking into the feet- 'Is good for skin!'.

I just like the texture...