50 Burger Challenge

Rayzor - P. Terry's S. Lamar - austin, tx - burger #9

Double w/cheese. Nothing much to be said here, just a solid fast food burger. 6/10.

Timko - Ted's Montana Grill - Auroura?, CO- Burger #26

6/10 - not bad not good. Forced to stop here while picking someone up from the airport.

megabootay - Casino el Camino - Austin, TX - #9

7/10

The Chicago Burger

Bacon, Romaine lettuce, tomato and cheddar cheese

Seeing as I haven't had a burger since January (stupid shake diet), you'd think I would have given this a 10. And I chose Casino because I love the burgers. But, it was...meh. Not bad. But not as awesome as I remembered it. Oh well.

JimD Tony's CSCO #11

6/10 not bad, not memorable either

HaVoCLaD - NXNW - ATX - #18

8/10

I had the burger special. A half pound with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, chipotle solid, bacon and fried onion strings.

The burger was very tasty, done medium to my request.

Slow Ride - Kebab House - Devizes, Wiltshire - Kebab #12

6/10 with good meat (the texture was reminiscent of meat) and little grease or salt. Spectacular chips and the chilli sauce evoked the habanero...review here.

Timko - Reuben's - Boulder, CO - Burger #25

7/10 - GREAT Belgian beer selection but I don't dig the pretzel bun. Side note: this dude below apparently had an Epic morning. Looks like he put Brownie to shame! (Damn barefoot runners!). P.s - it was 3pm.

JohnF - Buffalo Nickel Bar & Grill - Fredericksburg, Texas -#12

9/10
Swiss cheese, mushrooms, bacon, lettuce, and an onion ring on a ciabatta bun. One of the best burgers I've had in awhile.

brownie/Gray's Coors Tavern/Pueblo, CO/burger #18

Can't believe my first Pueblo burger wasn't from Bingo Burger!

Timko - Under the Sun - Boulder, CO - Burger #24

Meh. bison burger 6/10

HaVoCLaD - Fuddruckers - ATX - #17

6/10

1/2# basic cheeseburger done medium. I added only lettuce, onions and ketchup. This challenge is teaching me that I prefer my burgers without as many toppings as I thought I liked so I passed on the specialty burgers.

The burger was nothing special, but fresh toppings and a good grilled bun along with the wedge fries bring the total package up over average for me.

At $12.50 for the meal (with drink) it's a bit pricey. In theory, I upsized the side of fries to a large side of "Frings". I'm pretty sure those 5 rings cost me $0.50 each.

JP - Southern Sun - Boulder - #8

Burger: The Date Night Burger w/ bacon, roasted poblanos, goat cheese and fig paste. Maybe one of the best burgers in Boulder!

Beer: FYIPA

Wiley - P.Terry's - Austin, TX - #12

I always get P Terry's to go. I meant to go to the grocery store Thursday night then cook dinner, but when I pulled in at 8:45pm the parking lot was jam packed. What the fuck is wrong with people? Why are people grocery shopping on a Thursday at 9pm??
So I didn't even park and went to P Terry's, instead.
A double bacon cheeseburger on a wheat bun. 8.5/10
Simple, yet hits the spot. And the tomato never disappoints. Got a lemonade too.

Slow Ride - Calne Charcoal Grill - Calne, Wiltshire - Kebab #11

6/10 but a very good 6/10. This is one of the really spectacular kebaberies in the region (probably too good for Calne). Write up here, and the up-to-date map of the kebab effort is here.

Beebs - Ketchup - National Harbor, Md. - 9

5/10
Crunchy buffalo burger: blue cheese dressing, buffalo sauce, potato chips, lettuce, tomato.

Bad sign when the burger is perfectly formed with hard edges. Burger was pressed too tightly so fairly dry. Toppings were the best part, along with 7 kinds of ketchup to eat on the fries.

Anthony - Toni & Clay's - Austin, TX - #13

8/10 - Yeah, it's a homemade house burger. But it was good. Might have been the onions and serranos in the patty.

Animoul / Outback / Oceanside, CA / #7

Cheeseburger: 10 / 10

Incline bunny / front range BBQ /10/10 #8

Very easily the best burger so far ..#girthy#beefy#porkbelly#baconsteak

pjtravels - Top Notch - Austin, TX - burger #20

6/10. Nice flame grilled flavor, but lacked seasoning. Freshly fried okras were a great compliment.

Digger/ Lefty's/Parksville B.C./ Burger#9

Lefty's is a cool bar, the menus are left handed and there are left hand prints all over the place. Good burger, all fresh ingrediants. Point deducted for serving me a salad and potato wedges instead of proper french fries. 6/10.

Anthony - Shady Grove - Austin, TX - #12

6/10 - Green Chile Burger. Rating mostly because I'm annoyed any time I have to use a knife and fork with a burger. It was also tough to tell how good the patty tasted under all that.

#10 3rd base

3/10.....meh..... What I expected.

(ADMIN INTRUSION. Who posted this? make sure you add your name, numb nut)

Slow Ride - Bodrum Kebab House - Oxford - Kebab #10

6/10--chewy (not the chips which were cold and powdery) but the chilli sauce was decent...full write up here: http://1pumplane.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/bodrum-oxford-kpw-for-week-9/

nutsandboltons - New Moon Pub - London - SH#14

Burger with BBQ beef and creme fraiche. It came out medium well because I forgot (yet again) to specify. Even so, the flavor was all right, and BBQ was passable. It was horribly messy, though. Surpisingly, the tomato was really good. I have no idea how they managed that in the middle of February, but gift horses and all that. Extra point for good fries.

6/10

HaVoCLaD - Bill Gray's - Penfield, NY - #16

10/10

Bill Gray's is the home of the World's Greatest Cheeseburger! (At one point they had this term trademarked, but it looks like that has fallen by the wayside.

Growing up I had this burger at least monthly. For a time, it was our go-to Sunday dinner. Naturally, during a quick trip back to Rochester, I had to stop in to mark Bill Gray's off of this challenge!

I had my usual, a cheesburger with extra onions, pickles, ketchup and hot sauce. FYI - Rochester hot sauce is a tangy meat gravy sauce unique to Rochester (as far as I know). The burgers are 5 oz, hand formed from fresh hamburg and cooked up on a flat grill. Lots of charry goodness. The bun is big and fresh from DiPaulo's.

Unfortunately, they changed their onion rings for the worse. The fries are still nice fat crinkle cuts so I didn't mark 'em down for the rings.

Jimd The Dive CSCO #10

7/10

Timko - Cuba Cuba - Boulder, CO - Burger #23

5/10 - for as much flavor as this was supposed to have, it didn't. Beef with some chorizo, cheese, jalapeño mayo, fried potato strings, lettuce, tomato, on a brioche bun. So many better items on the menu...

JP - Whiskey Kitchen - Nashville - #7

"Kanye Prime" Burger with grilled country ham, Cheddar and spicy pickles. Amazing burger!

Cheesehead - #7 - Top Notch - ATX

Chili cheese burger, sure is a flat burger. Yes this is burger #7 I messed up the numbers on the last two posts, oops.

Cheesehead - #5 - Hyde Park Bar & Grill - ATX

brownie/Downtown Brewery/Knoxville, TN/burger #17

Delicious!

HaVoCLaD - White Castle - NYC - #15

7/10

My first time with these proto-sliders after hearing about them for 25 years.

They pretty much lived up to the hype. Tasty little things with a good onion flavor. The four slider combo is only six bucks.

HaVoCLaD - P. Terry's - Lakeway. TX- #14

9/10

Darn good burger, love the fries.

Digger/Earl's/Nanaimo B.C./ Burger # 8 (again)

I D.Q.'d the chicken Burger. Here is the Bronx Burger from Earl's. Very good. 7.5/10. Excellent Albino Rhino, it's a "pale ale". Get it?

Peter Pepper, Red's Porch, Austin, Burger #14

Had a Manimal which is a burger with grilled onions, cheese, the usual veggies and a thousand island sauce. Burgers which come out with perfectly formed vertical sides, like a hockey puck, are always suspect. I added bacon. The bacon was tough, the burger not pink enough and too "solid," that is lacking ooze. 6/10. Fries were pretty good.

JohnF - Top Notch - Austin, Texas - #11

Top Notch is a 40 year old burger joint in North Austin. The meat is grilled over an open flame by hand. In addition to the indoor dining room, it has one of the old style drive-in lots (not to be confused with drive through window). For those in the US, the drive-in is sort of like at Sonic where you park, order from the car, and wait for someone to bring out the order. Unlike Sonic, they do not seem to be trying to be retro, it's just infrastructure left over from the 70's.

6/10

brownie/Asheville Brewing/Beer City, NC/burger #16

The Toumbstone! With a Ninja Porter to wash it all down.

brownie/Black Mountain Ale House/Black Mountain, NC/burger #15

Post Mt. Mitchell Challenge burger. Yum!

nutsandboltons - Fine Burger Co - London - SH#13

(Not so) Fine Burger Co. was a big disappointment. The burger was called the Double Red Hot, but the Jalapenos were weak, the chilli sauce was sweeter than it was hot, and the burger patty itself was bland.

4/10

Wiley - Red's porch - Austin, Texas - #11

Manimal add bacon.

Unlike prior reviews, I thought this burger was bland. The bacon barely had any flavor. 5/10

Worst burger I've had so far.

By the way, their Bloody Mary's are terrible too. Can't remember the last time I didn't like a BM. I don't think I've ever NOT liked my Bloody Mary.

Their jalapeño cheese poppers are the bomb dot com! Skip everything else and order poppers. They pack a punch!