Crown Burger
There's a few points to notice before I get started here. First, since I'm using Crown Burger as my base case, as a basis of comparison, I've predetermined that it's ratings will all be 5 (middle of the rating scale), to give room for other restaurants to be better or worse than it. So, the 5 here doesn't necessarily mean that it's average, just that it's the first one. You can wait to see what that rating means based on how other restaurants fair in comparison.
Second is that since there are a lot of Crown Burger restaurants, it's possible that they aren't all the same. These ratings are based on the Crown Burger at
33rd and Highland Drive. If later I decide that another Crown Burger needs to be considered, then it will get its own ratings in comparison to this Crown Burger (as though it were a separate restaurant).
Are you excited yet? I am. Ok, let's begin.
Pastrami burger: 5Crown Burger's really proud of their pastrami burger: they call it the "Crown Burger". Admittedly, it is very good. They really pile on the pastrami. There was a lot of it, though the meat did have a lot of fat in it. The composition was pretty standard: pastrami on top, followed by cheese, burger, shredded lettuce, tomato. There wasn't much seasoning on the meat nor any special sauces (but if you're getting this burger, try putting pepper on it; it makes a big difference).
Gyro: 5Like with the pastrami, the meat was piled high on the gyro. The meat itself wasn't very tender (it was kind of stiff, like it'd be sitting there for too long before being served), but the seasoning on it was very good.
The sauce was basically just ranch dressing (it might have been a cucumber ranch, but definitely just a salad dressing). There wasn't any feta cheese. The pita was lightly toasted on the griddle, and that was really good.
It also had sliced onions and tomatos (and a lot of these). The slices seemed a little big on the gyro, but I'm sure it's just because they use the same onions and tomatos that they put on the burgers.
French Fries: 5The fries were pretty run of the mill. Big thick fries, but not very fresh. They weren't soggy, but not very crisp either.
Fry Sauce: 5
The fry sauce seemed like it was simply ketchup and mayonnaise mixed, with a tad higher proportion of mayonnaise. Pretty standard. (I do think I've had a different fry sauce at Crown Burger before, so maybe that's one thing that varies by location.)
Conclusion:Do I get conclusions? I think I'll do it. It seems like the common thread to the food at (this) Crown Burger was low on flavor but high on quantity. It was all good, but pretty mild flavors. They did give a lot of everything.
Another post about Stefani's name
In Italian, the name "Steven" is "Stefano". Well, also in Italian, words that end in "o" are made plural by changing them to an "i". So, if you could pluralize the name Stefano, it would be, "Stefani". So, that means that Stefani is "Stevens". Maybe "Even Stevens". Hopefully that will help her out with her Disney-loving roommates.
Quest for the Supreme Greek Burger place
Since moving to Salt Lake I've noticed that there are a lot of Greek restaurants. Maybe this is becoming standard procedure in a lot of cities, but it was surprise to me. (My brother says that there are a lot of Greek restaurants in Denver, but I don't remember there being a lot of them.)
One type of restaurant that seems peculiarly popular is the Greek burger restaurant. I first saw this pattern with Crown Burger and Burger Supreme in Provo. (I always wondered if there was a connection between these two restaurants, since their menus are so similar, and I didn't realize until recently that there are tons of restaurants that follow this same pattern.)
So, now that I've moved to Salt Lake where these restaurants are so common, I feel that I must answer a certain calling, for which I'm sure I am destined: To identify the Best of these Greek burger restaurants!
To do this, I've decided that I must sample each of the Greek burger restaurants that I can find, and compare them. I want to do this as scientifically as possible (considering that it's completely subjective), so I'll be ordering the same items at each restaurant and rating them on a numeric scale. I'll use a 1-10 scale for the ratings, but since the ratings only make sense when placed relative to each other, I'll choose one restaurant as a basis for comparison: Crown Burger. (I would have chose Burger Supreme, because it's what I'm most familiar with and because it's universally awesome, but since I live in SLC now, I just won't be able to eat there often enough to make it the basis. Crown Burger makes the most sense of the others because it is the most popular and has the most locations.)
There will be four categories for comparison, based on the items unique to the Greek burger places: The pastrami burger, the gyro, french fries, and fry sauce. (I choose the pastrami burger instead of a regular burger because this seems to be the one that Greek places specialize in.)
And, this post is already beyond Ronnie-readable length, so I'll start the reviews with the next post. I hope that I can make the world a better place with this quest.
The Last Samuri
I saw this movie recently for the first time. Why didn't anyone tell me that there was a battle between ninjas and samuri in it? That was the most awesome thing ever! I'd always wondered about how those groups overlapped. Well, they overlapped with a lot of arrows and swords. It was awesome.
Stefroni
I just thought of that. Cool, huh?
