Five Guys Burgers and Fries
Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
I’ve been hearing a boatload about Five Guys and the Syracuse area has recently received its first taste of the increasingly popular restaurant. The crowds were ridiculously long and the traffic seemed to never end. It was more than a month before I finally got around to sneaking into the eatery on an off-peak moment to sample a burger.
On the menu, you can choose from burgers, bacon burgers, hot dogs, fries and a few other options. I didn’t know the “Big Burgers” meant two hamburger patties (which I wish I had of known beforehand), but I was pleased to know that you could choose from an array of toppings for free, such as grilled onions, relish, tomato, and jalapeno peppers.
Bags of fresh potatoes served as a divider between the order line and seating area. The restaurant also announces the farm your potatoes have come from – which I thought was pretty cool. Service was exceptionally fast. I was surprised how short of a wait I had. If you read up on Five Guys, you will find that they have won many awards and topped numerous city “favorites” list.
My First Impressions
Boy, this burger is big!
It was ushy and gushy with goodness. Tasty burger. The fries were also flavorful. After I was done eating, I told my sweetie that I felt drugged. I wasn’t feeling sluggish, lazy or tired, but was actually kinda euphoric. Overall, I will visit this eatery again, but will definitely opt for the “Little” Burger next time.
My boyfriend had heard this place was amazing. We went close to when they first opened, and the line was crazy long. We waited patiently watching people walk away with their greasy bags of food (they use paper bags and I did not see one that didn’t have grease soaked through, the first tip off of what was to come). We were both starving, had not eaten yet, and honestly a big greasy burger sounded pretty okay to me. I’m reading all the signs of reviews they had up on the walls and just salivating. So, I order one with onions and mushrooms along with the regular lettuce tomato, and was fairly impressed grilled onions etc weren’t extra. By the time a table cleared up I could have eaten my own shoe, and I am ssooo excited and bite in and… with as many things as I put on it, how this burger managed to have so little flavor is beyond me. It tasted like nothing but grease. I looovvee burgers. All American girl, no tofu for me! I love grilling them at home, I even like fast food on occasion. I had yet to meet a burger I did not like until this one. The fries were even worse, super limp and heavy with, you guessed it, grease. If I weren’t so starving I would have never attempted to finish eating it, but I was so I finished my burger and let him eat the fries. As we were walking out to the car, I notice my stomach feels like, well like I drank a big gulp of fryer grease. I barely made it to the bathroom. Puke city, and I have a stomach of steel, I could eat Indian and Mexican food all day with no change in bathroom behavior. I would like to give this a negative score. It didn’t deserve 0 stars. How it has the reputation it does is so beyond me. Am I the only one who had this problem?
Oh wow. You had a really bad experience.
Did you go to the same one I did? because the fries were kinda on the dry side when I tried them, but I like them that way so that didn’t bother me. I can’t stand greasy food either, but I didn’t have the same experience as you did when I first ate at Five Guys, but it sounds like you had a nightmare.