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The Order:
Phil - Chilliiie Cheese Burger, medium rare. With nachos, jalapeños, Gouda, Chillisauce, fresh onions, roasted onions, pickles, tomato and lettuce.
Kristin - Bacon Guacamole Burger, medium rare. With bacon, guacamole (Avocado Creme), fresh grilled peppers, roasted onions, braised onions and lettuce.
Side Order:
We both added fries and salad for €2.20
Phil - €4.90 + €2.20 = €7.10
Kristin - €4.90 + €2.20 = €7.10
Drink Order:
Phil - Berliner Pilsener
Kristin - Astra Alsterwasser
Burger Menu Rating: 8/15
Kristin's Burger Menu Rating: 9/15
Welcome to the new year! I know I've been absent for a long time and you've all been wondering where I've been. Don't lie. I know you've missed me and all the delicious, and not so delicious, burgers that I write about. I've been spending time working on another blog that I've started, which if you haven't seen yet, you should check it out. If you don't follow it this year, you'll miss it! Anyways, for my first post of the new year, the first post of February, I've got something a little different.
Kristin, the budding burger connoisseur. Taking things very seriously.
I spent over a month in Germany at the end of last year and ate quite a few burgers during my stay. My lovely girlfriend Kristin has been a great sport when it comes to my obsession with burgers, and they're starting to grow on her to the point that she's becoming very critical of the burgers that we eat together. It brings tears of joy to my eyes, let me tell you. So today what you get is a tandem review in the form of a conversation between Kristin and I!
PK: When the burgers first came out they were huge! Right? They looked really big!
KT: Yeah, and I can not finish it.
PK: Yeah. It's a good amount of food, but for a burger that's so big, the patty itself is surprisingly small. Surprisingly thin. What did you think with your first bit of the burger?
KT: I missed the flavor! I wanted something really delicious to bite into. And it has a little bit of a burned flavor. Maybe it's because of the bacon that it tastes a little bit burned? But it also has a weird aftertaste. Do you say this?
PK: Yeah.
KT: Maybe also a little bit too much onion for my taste. So maybe that's the reason that I didn't like it so much. I was hoping that it would have a little bit more guacamole, since it's called Bacon guacamole. So they should use less onions, and more..
PK: More of what the actual name is.
KT: And also maybe serve it with guacamole so that you can dip the burger.
Weird stacking order, and an over cooked burger.
PK: Sure! It was the same on mine. It's called the Chilliiie Cheese Burger but there was almost no chili on it. And usually on a Chili Cheese Burger the cheese is melted, or on any burger the cheese is melted, but here it's separated by a layer of tortilla chips and jalapeños so the cheese is ice cold. But definitely, the big problem here is that my burger is overcooked. Is yours?
KT: Yeah.
PK: Yeah. And if the standard here is medium rare—
KT: That's not medium rare.
PK: That's not medium rare. They're doing something a little wrong.
KT: But yours is more..
PK: Pinker than yours. Sure. But mine is only medium. But yours is—
KT: Look at mine. It's like a Frikadelle.
PK: Yours is gray. What'd you say?
KT: A Frikadelle.
PK: Oh, sure! Ha. But honestly, the best thing about my burger is the jalapeños. The jalapeños are really good. They're not so hot. They're spicy and smokey. They're really good. And the tortilla chips are a nice touch, but the stacking order on this burger is a little off. What about the fries?
The fries. A little boring. Or as Kristin put it: boring, boring, boring.
KT: If I say boring, boring, boring, then I mean boring, boring, boring.
PK: Yeah. I agree. They're undersalted, maybe, there's not enough—
KT: Yeah.
PK: They're certainly cooked correctly. Right? They're—
KT: They're missing the salt.
PK: It's just the flavor.
KT: Yeah.
PK: Overall though. Kind of disappointing. You certainly do get a lot of food. I'm three quarters of the way through my burgers and I can not finish. I might.. still, but—
KT: Ha.
PK: But I would be pushing it. Would you come here again?
The entire place is lined with music and movie posters. And they play movies like Lawrence of Arabia.
KT: The atmosphere is cool. With some people to go out and have a great time, yes. But not if I wanted to eat a burger. Like, if I said "I want to eat a burger tonight," I would not come here.
PK: I agree.
KT: I would go to one of the other places we've been in the last few—
PK: I mean it's more.. Definitely for the atmosphere, and if I want to eat a cheap meal. A cheap meal that's.. okay.
KT: Yeah, this you have to account for also.
PK: I mean, €4.90 for a burger, that's, what, $6.60 for a burger. That's a good deal for this size, for this amount of food. Because the patty is thin, but it's big, it has a big circumference.
KT: That's also maybe Berlin. In Berlin a lot of stuff is cheaper. Like, how much have we paid for a burger in Hamburg? Like ten or twelve bucks.
PK: For a good burger. Yeah.
KT: It's, for me, now I'm eating burgers more often, so I can.. Now I'm eating more more burgers so I can see the difference.
Phil's Burger Scores:
Cooked Correctly: 3/5 (extra point taken off because medium rare is "standard.")
Design/Ingredients: 1/4
Plating: 1.5
Value: 2.5 (Here's the kicker to this rating! The cost is great for the amount of food you get.)
Kristin's Burger Scores:
Cooked Correctly: 2/5
Design/Ingredients: 2/4
Plating: 2/3 (Liked the dishware!)
Value: 3
