Five Hungry Guys hitting up Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries: Queens
Five Guys Famouse Burgers and Fries
13201 14th Ave, Flushing
(718) 767-6500
Having never heard of Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries until recently (I know, where have I been?! Stuck in the office too long!) and having only eaten In N Out Burger this past summer when I was in California (absolutely delicious by the way), I was all too happy to raid this burger joint. My Australian friend, Gary, wanted to hit a Greasy, fatty, delicious Burger spot before we hit the bar and him leaving the States for his home down under. I was recommended this place.
Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries Queens NY
Five Guys Famous Burgers: Juicy Cheese Burger
Late one friday night, my group of, wait for it… Five Guys… No really it was five of us guys! We wanted a good burger dinner before hitting up Barcade in Williamsburg. Did this place hit the spot of five hungry guys? The pictures will do most of the speak. More after the jump!
Angelo & Maxie’s Steakhouse
ANGELO & MAXIE’S
233 Park Avenue South
At 19th Street
(212) 220-9200
Angelo & Maxie's Steakhouse
Soho Park Cafe
Soho Park
62 Prince St (near Lafayette)
New York, NY
(212) 219-2129
SUMMER RECAP:
On this beautiful summer day on Friday, July 20, the bf and I took a half day from work to go to the anime convention in Baltimore with a few friends. While waiting for them to drive down from Somers, I managed to the drag the bf to SoHo where I attended to shopping matters. Of course knowing me, I get hungry afterwards. Ah heck, when the hell am I not? I complained like a mad woman to the saint-like patient bf, and alas, after walking all over soho, we found this cute place called Soho Park. It didn’t look too pricey and dingy like a fast food restaurant which was a good enough reason to go in.
It’s packed in here, but amazingly it wasn’t loud at all.
You get a license plate after you make a purchase. Pretty neat huh? The purpose of this is to set it on your table so the server can serve you your orders.
Park Burger w/shredded iceberg lettuce, sliced pickles, tomato, and special sauce.
Price: $5.50; $7.50 w/fries.
I could have sworn that I ordered the Belgian fries, but apparently not. Oh well, regular fries will have to do even if everyone else around me is having that. Bahh. This burger is definitely not worth the price. Maybe it’s because I’m such a cheapo and prefer more bang for my buck, but I swear, I’ve seen bigger burgers for the same price.
Ok, so I may sound a little bias, but if a burger is of average size like this, it should at least make up in taste for it’s mediocre size. But no, there’s nothing special about the taste. The patty is cooked very well since it’s moist, juicy and gosh darn tender, but unfortunately it’s pretty bland.
This is what I get for ordering the most basic burger on the chopping menu. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad burger. It tastes pretty clean…almost organic, and it compliments well with the lettuce, pickle and tomato. I didn’t love this burger, nor hate it. Nonetheless it’s still comfort food which makes me happy.
My rating: 3/5
Recommended: No.
Dipping Sauce for Fries
Price: $.0.50
Your choice of:
Basil Mayo
Roasted Red Pepper
Garlic
Black Olive Mayo
Curried Mayo
Spicy Sambal Ketchup
Smoked Paprika
I swear, when you’re in SoHo, merchants will charge an arm and a leg for everything, even goddam dipping sauce. They should just have a giant pump with all the sauces and give it to us for free.
But I understand why they do it, I just want to gripe about it.
Left: Roasted red pepper; Right: Garlic
I did not like these sauces at all. I’m sure it’s just a personal preference, but the roasted red pepper is very strong and tasted bitter in my mouth. The garlic one is also strong, but I felt like I was dipping grease. Yuck.
The fries taste much better without the dam sauce, in my opinion. It’s already nice and salty so don’t even bother seasoning it. I liked it.
Herbed Buttermilk Red Onion Rings
Price: $5.00
This is by far the worst batch of onion rings I had in my entire life. Like, where’s the batter? I felt like I was eating greasy ass crispy onions. This is disgusting. And no amount of dipping sauce would help me through this arduous eating process.
Recommended: No way.
I love the look of this place, but unfortunately that’s essentially what you’re paying for.
Better Burger: Organic Burgers & Baked Fries
Better Burger
265 W 19th St
on 8th Ave
212 989-6688
After waiting for my bf to get off of work, I had a strong craving for burgers and fries. Luckily there was a burger joint that’s just a few blocks away, ’cause otherwise, I’ll have to settle for McDonalds, and I’ll be damned if I have to do so. Mind you, I’ve never heard anything about this place and just charged right in. =P
*I apologize for not taking a picture of the front of the fast food restaurant. There was a gigantic round orange sign in front with their logo on it, but I figure since it’s on their cups, it’s pretty much the same.
Upon entering the restaurant and staring up at the menu above the cashier counter, my eyes widened when I saw the price of their cheapest burgers -$5.95,1/3 lb meat for their classic burger. Yeah $6 for a Burger? Man it sure as hell better be the biggest and best dam burger ever. At Micky’s, I can get 6 burgers for that price! Then I ordered an order of small “air baked” fries for $2.95. Oh man, it’s either the whole neighborhood or rich, or this place is dam pricey, or I’m just cheap. Whichever the case was, I wanted to try it regardless.
So I later learn from reading the rest of the menu that the reason why their burgers cost so damn much is because they’re organic. Organic? Whaa? This means their meat doesn’t have any antibiotics, injected hormones, steroids, drugs, or any other chemicals that might induce the size of the bovine. Plus they say it’s actually 100% meat, since they claim that most burgers have fillers. Ok. And with their fries, it’s air baked, so it’s not fried up in a gallon of oil that makes it fatty. Sound very wholesome and healthy! But anyways, the burger is pretty good. The meat was very moist and clean. It needed some ketchup in there, but otherwise, it wasn’t bad. I actually liked it because I didn’t feel guilty eating it. It left my mouth with a grease-less taste. Yay!
What’s great about this place is that they give you a whole bunch of sauces for your fries. I believe they have honey mustard, dijon mustard, chili, ketchup, and something else. I picked the honey mustard because it’s just simply irresistible. I can tell you this much, organic fries can’t ever beat the crunchy goodness of the deep fries version. Don’t get me wrong, this is still very good, but it was a little sweet for my taste. The thing that I liked about this is that there’s a lot of potato in there. Sometimes I forget that I’m eating fries, but really, it has that awesome potato kick that I miss with deep frying fries.
I would definitely recommend this place when you see one. I heard that they make kick ass smoothies too! I can’t wait to try it next time.
Recommended!
Rating: 4/5
BETTER BURGER
265 WEST 19 STREET, MANHATTAN 10011
212-989-6688
Current violation points: 12/28
Inspection Date: 05/22/2007
Violations were cited in the following area(s) and those requiring immediate action were addressed.
1.) Single service item reused, improperly stored, dispensed; not used when required.
2.) Canned food product observed severely dented.
3.) Evidence of flying insects or live flying insects present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
