Burgers Invade Austin: to See & to Eat
I guess you can say we’ve been into burgers lately…visiting these first two paintings by a musician/ painter in a gallery on SOCO and then making it our job to try out the latest from Your Mom’s Burger Bar on East Cesar Chavez between Chalmers and Chicon (warning: do not follow google maps, as it has the location wrong).
While the paintings always please, the restaurant leaves a lot to be desired (in order of most to least severe pleas):
1. The atmosphere: get rid of the flies! It’s impossible to eat at the dive right now with them swarming everywhere, so make sure to take home or order delivery.
2. The sides: be transparent about what’s fresh and what’s frozen. The menu calls out that the fries are not frozen, implying that nothing else would be. This is misleading since the fried zuchini is in fact store-bought and frozen.
3. More on the fries: cut way down on the over-salting.
4. The sauces: make these fresh or find a vendor with better quality condiments; the current varieties taste artificial.
However…the John D. Rockefeller burger we had (pictured above) was delish and the order-taker was definitely spirited.
He says: Juan in a Million is still the king of this East Austin block
She says: There’s a rare chance I’ll want this burger delivered instead of pizza the few times a year we order in.
1 year ago