The Burger Shoppe Does Burgers Best

688 Queen East
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Posted by Tanja
October 19, 2007

Currently 2.81/5
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Rating: 2.8/5 (21 votes cast)

Stopped into the Burger Shoppe with friends last night looking for some fast food done right. I'd had one of their organic beef burgers in the past and it was fantastic, so I figured a full visit was in order.

Got the quality, got the flavour, but also (for better of for worse) got some serious grease on the side.

A hungry bunch, we order up a classic burger, cheeseburger, chick(en)burger, and baby burger with sides of both the fries and onion rings.

All the burgers were awesome (and yeah, I had a bite of every kind, so imagine my dreams last night). The baby, classic and cheeseburger are all fresh beef patties and get a sloppy double thumbs-up from everyone at the table

Compared to the organic beef, I can't taste the difference. If you've got the extra dollar go ahead and spring for the healthier beef, but either way, Burger Shoppe only serves fresh, never frozen, and you can taste the difference in both flavour and consistency compared to other burgers.

The "all-white-meat" chickburger is also really juicy and, as expected, a lighter tasting choice. Added a little salt n pepper to perk it up a bit, but that's just me.

The sides I didn't enjoy as much.

The Burger Shoppe advertises the use of only trans-fat free oil, and that's what you get -- and lots of it.

While the fresh cut fries are a nice cross between New York and shoestring style, they were just too oily. Either they should be thicker so they dont wind up soggy, or we need to be getting these out of the deep fryer a little quicker. Ask for extra napkins.

The onion rings are the same story. They looked great... huge, thickly-sliced onions, battered and fried to a dark crisp, but that crispiness was just an illusion. Pick it up and if it doesnt slip out of your hand first, it'll fall apart as you eat it.

If you can stomach the grease, dig in. If you can't, stick with a burger-only order. No regrets there.

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For another look at the Burger Shoppe, see how it fared in our head-to-head battle with Riverside foe, Dangerous Dan's.

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Tanja, i LOVE that headline picture!!! And admittedly the burgers at The Burger Shoppe are top shelf. A tad on the expensive side though and when i was there (a month or two after they opened) they didn't have all the kinks worked out of the service side. I'd be interested to know how they're doing now.

Posted by: frank at October 19, 2007 9:05 AM

People seemed to have a lot of issues with the Burger Shoppe when it first opened, but I have been there a few times, and each time had a great burger, much better than I get anywhere else. It is worth the extra money for a once in a while indulgence!

Posted by: Cordelia at October 19, 2007 9:22 AM

That photo at the top is hilarious. :-D

Posted by: Debbie Ohi at October 19, 2007 10:45 AM

That photo of Paul (it is Paul, right?) is super awesome.

Posted by: Sameer Vasta at October 19, 2007 11:09 AM

On the service side, it seemed like they were training someone new when we were there, so perhaps they're actively trying to make sure they've got someone friendly and dependable at the counter. I switched something in my order and he ended up putting mayo on my burger but none on someone elses, but it was probably my fault for confusing him. ;)

Posted by: Tanja at October 19, 2007 12:30 PM

Check out Apache Burger in Etobicoke...hmmmmm.

Posted by: Jahama at October 19, 2007 4:16 PM

everyone knows that Utopia has the best burgers in town.

Posted by: Derek at October 19, 2007 4:38 PM

Terrific fries but man, that veggie burger was just creepy. Hot pink and needed ALOT more time on the grill. Ewwwww

Posted by: jkm at January 22, 2008 4:54 PM

My colleague and I wanted to try out this place and ended up PISSTOFF with no food! We went there looking forward to taste their famous burgers, but ended up with bad service and LONG WAITS! We had to wait 1 HOUR and YET...still NO FOOD. Even the people AFTER us got their burgers, but we never got ours...and the person there brushed us off with saying "it's coming." or "they came before you" but in fact, we were there before any of those people and it's STILL not coming! Another note is, they were letting takeout orders to bud in...to a SMALL, 2 people shop like THIS...they shouldn't be taking massive takeout orders to begin with and to handle the CROWD that's standing there first. We ended up walking out with refund and NO LUNCH! when parking meter is up and our lunch hour was used up in WAITING!
all for all...this place SUCK in service wise. Forget about the quality of food...they've lost me as a customer already!

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at May 23, 2008 5:11 PM