Lightning Round!

Tony’s Diner, 18 August 2018

Clearly a frozen patty, hard to tell whether the cheese made any difference, no condiments allowed the lettuce, onion, and tomato to shine through as the best parts of this otherwise uninteresting burger. Menu on the website needs updating, because it was a dollar more when I got there. The extra dollar was hardly the most insulting thing about this burger.

Funky Grits, 18 August 2018

I ordered the “Robyne” which promised smoked turkey breast, bacon, avocado, microgreens, and curry aioli on brioche. It leaned heavily on savory notes with only the semi-sweetness of the brioche to balance it out.
This is essentially the Traeger Burger but a little on the white girl side. It wasn’t bad but I would have liked more well-rounded flavors.
Because GF is pretty sure I would report on her opinion, she gave the place a B overall, because her corn bread muffins were cold.

Zelino, 20 August 2018

Continuing on my adventures in white girl today, I decided to hit Zelino again, since their roast beef was so good. I decided to give their smoked turkey avocado a try, billed as also having “whole wheat bread, dijon mayo, Gruyere, tomato”.
Uh, not as good as the roast beef.
The turkey was more than likely smoked and sliced in house but it tasted like Carl Buddig. The tomato was nice, the avocado wasn’t noticeable aside from being ice cold, the tomato was good, I couldn’t tell if there was any dijon in that mayo (which leaked through the bread onto my hands) and I could see the gruyere but I’ll be fucked sideways if I could taste it.
Batting .500 is still respectable. Stick with the roast beef.

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