Comments on: HB Burger May Not be a “Midtown Lunch” But It’s a Damn Good Burger

By: steveroller

steveroller — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:48:31 +0000

HB Burger should be called NS Burger, for “nothing special.” Not bad, but totally mediocre. Went in after work last night and sat at the bar. Ordered the beef with bleu cheese, medium rare, side of tots, their empire pilsner.

Burger came with cheddar cheese. I pulled a canadian and didn’t send it back because it was a close call on the cheese selection to begin with and I was hungry. Burger was medium AT BEST. I under order at places like this expecting them to overcook it to please the slack-jawed midwesterners, but medium rare coming out north of medium is unforgiveable.

Also, the tots were disappointing. No bacon flavor, no jalapeno flavor, no flavor whatsoever. Total lack of salt, so all I could taste was the freezer they came out of. Like Zach wrote, they are not really comparable to tots, but mashed potato balls with saturn-rings of hashbrown. As delicious as that sounds I hope I’m not being tot-ological to say they were bad.

Ozersky = the emperor has no bun. He once again proves he’s a hack. The bartender was nice and gave me a free beer though.

By: vdubjb

vdubjb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Most provolone in the usa has no flavor and no smell, you should consider yourself lucky. Is the burger really that small? I was going to have it today..

By: 5DollarQueen

5DollarQueen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:03:49 +0000

I don’t understand all the good reviews this place has gotten. I went one day to get a burger and I paid $10 for a burger that was 4 inches in diameter. FOUR INCHES!!!! Not only that, but that provolone cheese was some of the smelliest I ever had and I love provolone cheese. I had to take it off. I have never done that before to anything I ever had with provolone cheese. EVER!

I felt so ripped off that day, that I vowed never to go back even though they are offering that entire meal for $9.95. There are great places where I can justify paying almost $10 for a burger, but they are GOOD burgers, which is why would even fathom spending that much money for them. I have just come to the conclusion that most of these reviewers have no sense of taste/never had a decently priced burger in their lives or they have been offered money to review the place.

For a burger that size there are places that will charge half the price and still taste much better.

/rant

By: benjamin

benjamin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:54:24 +0000

I went for dinner last night. Burger was very good. My tots had a fair amount jalepeno jack cheese in them, not so much bacon. I would definitely go back, but order regular fries.

By: win

win — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:04:29 +0000

I tried the special yesterday and have to agree with Zach – it was good, not great. The tater tots were bland/unseasoned and I also didn’t pickup any bacon or jalapeno jack flavor.

I would still go to the Burger Joint or Goodburger before HB for the taste and Carnegie John’s for the value.