Congress is always a beehive on the weekends, but I was blown away by the enormity of the crowd this past Saturday. It took us around 25 minutes to find a place to park, but we finally found one a ways town the street for 5 bucks and a long walk. When we finally got up there (its next to Guerro's and the new Kendra Scott store), the line to order was about 15 people long but we figured it couldn't take too long - its just a burger place. We were wrong.
The atmosphere is very hip - typical of any new restaurant on South Congress. They even have a new method of ordering and sitting down...when you walk in and get in line, a cocktail waitress will serve you drinks while you wait and then another waiter finds you a table, gives you a number and places the number on the table that is ready for you after you're done ordering. Its a nice process in that no one has to stand around waiting for other customers to be done, hovering over their table. The drinks were pretty good too, we had a bloody mary but with their twist; it was a fuschia color with black salt and tasting a little more fruity than usual but with a kick.
After we waited around 25 minutes to order, our stomachs already growling, we sat down. The first to arrive at our table was the Mexican Vanilla milkshake that I ordered. Served with a little whipped cream and cinnamon on the top, it had the perfect thickness and flavor.
..then, about 35 minutes later, our food arrived. They have a nice presentation, each burger comes on a metal platter, the fries wrapped and a paper cone, but after an hour and 15 minute wait, everything could have been better. I had ordered a classic cheese burger, cooked medium rare, plain and dry with chili cheese fries. The fries were the best part. Although the burger was cooked perfectly and the bun was great, the meat had a funky taste that could only have come from their "in-house grinding." It wasn't a rotten or rancid flavor, jut something distinctly different that didn't quite suit me. The fries were not what you would expect when you order chili cheese fries, instead they were plain salted french fries with a bowl of "chili-cheese" that narrowly resembled and tasted like queso to me...good, but strange. My mom ordered the Terlingua - their version of a chili burger with fritos and cheese. While much, much better than mine, it still wasn't phenomenal.
The entire experience wasn't horrible, the atmosphere was fun and the drinks were good, but overall, definitely not worth $40 and an hour and 45 minutes.
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