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Best New Fast Food on the Northwest side? Beef & Burger
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  • Post #31 - June 28th, 2010, 9:49 pm
    Post #31 - June 28th, 2010, 9:49 pm Post #31 - June 28th, 2010, 9:49 pm
    On Mike G's tip I tried the steak sandwich tonight. It's a good sized rib-eye, normally served on a French bread roll. Based on my experience with B&B's pork chop sandwich (they take a whole pork chop and cut into odd shaped chunks to fit the French bread), I asked for a bun, hoping they would leave the steak intact, as it mimicked the shape of the bun. My instincts were correct. I received a whole steak which filled the bun almost perfectly.

    As with the pork chop, the house toppings for the rib-eye are lettuce, tomato, and mayo (?!?). I can't even fathom a steak, let alone a pork chop sandwich with those toppings so I asked for steak sauce, grilled onions, and pickles to cap off the sandwich. I forgot to ask for them to cook it to medium rare, but they did just fine without my prompt. Flavor-wise, this was indeed a very good fast food steak sandwich. Excellent beefy flavor with nice char grilled accents, complimented by the nicely sweet caramelized onions, the tang of the steak sauce, and the briny pickles.

    The only downside to this sandwich is that it had, IMHO, an inordinate amount of gristle. I mean, I'll bet I tossed close to 20% of the steak in the garbage because it was unchewable; inedible. Don't get me wrong, what didn't get spit out and tossed was choice, but there just seemed to be more gristle than one would reasonably expect.

    Although it tasted good, with all the other good to great choices offered by Beef & Burger, I don't think I'll be ordering the steak sandwich again anytime soon. No kiddin', try the grilled chicken sandwich sometime. You won't be disappointed; great flavor and no gristle to speak of.

    Buddy
  • Post #32 - June 29th, 2010, 7:12 am
    Post #32 - June 29th, 2010, 7:12 am Post #32 - June 29th, 2010, 7:12 am
    Maybe if they cut it to fit the bun, they trim it at the same time? Too long for me to remember if that could have been done when I or my son (not sure even which of us ordered it) had it.
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  • Post #33 - July 2nd, 2010, 2:23 pm
    Post #33 - July 2nd, 2010, 2:23 pm Post #33 - July 2nd, 2010, 2:23 pm
    Another big plus for B&B -- when you order a Pepper & Egg sandwich, they cook the eggs to order. Very fresh.

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