Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries

wish five guys was open 24/7

I like

Fries so gooooooooooood, especially if you bring some seasoned salt to put on them. I reward myself for good deeds by going there and eating an entire large order and a coke.

wasnt that impressed first time i went there, but am basically addicted now

I went this afternoon and got, like, an entire brown bag filled to the brim with french fries. It was like a picture from a kid's book.

haha i've had a craving for 5 Guys so much lately, and now i'm up late and hungry, so this thread being bumped right now is like ian sharing his yearning with me.

o fuk I want five guys right now.

wow, theres one of these like two miles away and ive never even heard of them. burgers and fries isnt really my thing tho.

I do not really like their fries very much, but I will say that getting really drunk and going to Five Guys to plow through a cheeseburger and a whole mess of peanuts is one of life's special joys.

would smash.

"Coming Soon" to a Coral Gables location near me. First one in Miami, I think.

Does FGFB&F have non-meat burgers (e.g., soy; garden; veggie) and, if so, are they good?

Haha, just checked. Not the first one in Miami. But the first one in the Gables.

only had em that one time in Georgetown, but then I try to confine my red meat/fries consumption at my advanced age, as you all should when you reach yr dotage.

I've never been to any FG that had non-meat burgers, though they do have a "grilled cheese", which is just the burger minus the meat. :( I'm not holding my breath on them adding non-meat burgers; their menu is pretty simple and hasn't changed since I first starting going there.

there's one of these in the town where i work--i am a little scared of it tbh

they have veggie burgers, dont listen to that fucken cumlord

Either the FG in your area are way cooler than the ones in mine, or you're just talking about the veggie/grilled cheese sandwich they have, which is what I described, a burger without the meat. To me, the patty makes it a burger, and they don't have non-meat patties, so no veggie burgers. They even have something in their FAQ about what they server is not really a veggie burger.

the whole thing sounds like a shitty east-coast version of in n out except inserted into strip malls instead of in standalone buildings.

What makes you say it's shitty?

that he's one of those annoying in-n-out partisans?

oh man here we go

just to be clear here:

five guys is a pretty good burger

in-n-out is a religion

religion, cult, pyramid scheme--small differences here

the cool thing abt in and out is its so cheap - its not particularly better than the other nu fast food places - shake shack pwns all imo

i'm thinking it's shitty because in n out is really tightly associated with the abstract concept of "california" in my mind. it has so much style and so many quirks and it just kind of embodies something to me.

meanwhile, five guys is in a faceless strip mall and has a generic block-lettered sign. maybe i would like it but they're not trying very hard to sell it to me.

in-n-out is a religion

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anyone else ever notice the bible pull-quotes on the food wrappers?

i was more repulsed by an ad i saw for dunkin donuts' tuna sandwich than i was by the homeless man masturbating on the train three seats down from me

e, i went through a really bad DD hash browns phase last year, but it ended abruptly i realized the bag they served in wasn't supposed to be translucent.

my dad won a $5 dunkin donuts gift card and I used it to buy a breakfast sandwich + coffee one morning in nyc

Oh, I would never get a sandwich there - gross. TBH the only thing I ever get is the egg white veggie flat bread and coffee both of which are solid imo. I can't speak for the rest.

abominable breakfast of choice is Bacon Egg & Cheese biscuit, hash browns and OJ from McD's

I stopped getting it when hung over because it just made me hate myself even more

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/burger.jpg

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhgghh

What DD is passing off as a bagel is much more offensive than what McD's passes off as a hamburger (or Olive Garden passes off as pasta eve )

DD bagels make Lender's look like H&H

what are the foods you're snobby about?

erm

http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/05/news/companies/burgers-us-london/?hpt=hp_t2

attn brits

also, shake shack opens today, 320 metres away

i'm off to patty & bun instead tho

shake shack seems fairly cheap in comparison to competitors, £5 for single shackburger, have not laid eyes on one for size comparison though. and yeah burgers are so last year, i'm still thrilled to be alive at this exciting time.

It's amazing to me that it's taken so long for this kind of thing to happen; it's a friggin' goldmine. I walked by last night when I was in town - there was a 10-block-long queue (which the guy told me was about a 90 minute/2 hour wait).

That new Shake Shack is ACROSS the street from Meat Market (and about a 10 minute walk from Honest Burger, Lucky Chip, Burger & Lobster, etc. etc.) - obviously the burger bubble is going to burst one of these days.

I think California Pizza Kitchen would be enormous in the UK - besides the better-than-any-of-the-other-popular-chains food, there's a big market for CA-branded stuff (e.g. the UCLA merch that's everywhere). I'm holding my breath for a Baja Fresh someday.

god i hate cpk

I like their salads. I haven't found a whole lot of places in the UK that make big, meal-sized salads with decent produce. The salad bar at my work canteen doesn't even have green things in it - today it's beetroot, sweetcorn, potatoes, shredded carrots, cole slaw, pinto beans. CPK salads are nice (if you get the dressing on the side, because they tend to drench them)

oh, i'm sure they are. i'm just a pizza purist. would much rather roberta's expanded to the uk though (but they are just one resto, not a chain)

was just sent a photograph live from the scene at shake shack it looks big and busy

http://www.shakeshack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/london-menu_main.jpg

not really feeling the limeyed-up menu

dog menu

(e.g. the UCLA merch that's everywhere).

haha what?

Honestly, it's EVERYWHERE. They've marketed UCLA as a "designer brand."

Here are a couple of sections from some big shops/catalogs:

http://www.reemclothing.com/Mens-Clothing/UCLA-Designer-Clothing.html

http://www.next.co.uk/shop/brand-ucla-0

The world famous UCLA brand originated from the University of California in Los Angeles. This world renowned university was established in 1919 and a hoard of top celebrities graced its hallways back in the day including the ultra cool and distinguished James Dean and the Doors front man and rock legend Jim Morrison. Everyone has heard of the mighty UCLA and the beauty of its campuses, successful sporting heritage and overall laid back cool of the California lifestyle could mean only one thing - the UCLA clothing brand would be a massive hit.

hahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahah OMFG

germans love david hasselhoff

lol thats amazing. btw congratulations England on being introduced to our american Ham-Burger Sandwiches

and a hoard of top celebrities graced its hallways

meaning a horde?

I was sort of into Five Guys when they first opened here but it's been two years at least since I felt any real desire to go in there. Same goes for Shake Shack, for that matter.

lookin' fwd to trying these dudes out but we've had pretty good american-style burgers for a coupla years at least, cf byron. anyone remember the era of the gourmet burger co? seemed like the dawning of this era of superior-to-mcdonalds hamburgerage but i wouldn't eat one of their patties for any money now.

Never appreciated GBK's artisanal bread and pineapple bullshit. Byron ok but not dirty enough.

Underwhelmed by shake shack, if five guys aren't any better I might have to become a burger sceptic again. Also not sure why they need over 20 people in a (tiny) kitchen, not to mention the four people on tills and ten or so scattered around outside doing table clearing and crowd control.

shake shack is only sort of okay here, too. the shakes are good, if pricey. and frozen custard is still a novelty in my book. but the burgers are just decent. also the lime-&-slate colo(u)r scheme is so teal&orange2.0

B-b-but standing in line with a bunch of office dorks!

i rate patty & bun pretty highly, though its always jam packed and you need to call ahead if ordering takeaway for six office dorks, like we did yesterday.

do people not make hamburgers at home in the UK?
shake shack is alright, i guess. always seems a bit expensive.

Five Guys is okay but expensive for what it is in the US - no choice of cheese/etc. so it's a trumped up In-n-Out Burger for twice the money.

i make burgers at home and they are *delicious, but i cannot make them for lunch when i am working in an office.

my secret? spread the patties with butter before frying them. i got that off bourdain.

five guys buns turn to mush soggy 2 mins.
Unlimited peanuts though

Like all you can eat nut palace

Sort of intrigued by how brazen Five Guys is with the peanuts, for no good reason, given how strict so many other placers are with peanuts. All the peanut-sensitive kids probably have to cross the street when coming up on a Five Guys. I wonder if it matters with takeout, too? Peanut particles everywhere.

There's a very good reason, namely that free roasted peanuts in the shell are fucking awesome.

I've actually never seen too many people partake. I guess they claim their frying oil is less bad for allergies than other types of peanut oil, but the piles of actual peanuts make this moot. Legend goes the lines at the original location were so long they gave the peanuts out to sate hunger while the burgers were cooking. Now it's part of the brand, insists my wife, but afaic, the burgers and fries are the brand and I couldn't care less about the peanuts. Which is to say, if they were gone, I wouldn't be all "fuck Five Guys." I go for the meat and potatoes.

I'd still go for the Cajun fries, but I would really miss the free peanuts if they stopped. Actually a few years back they used to have salted *and* unsalted peanuts, and now only have salted. Which made me a bit sad, as I preferred the unsalted ones.

Coming to Tupelo, yayyy. Right when I'm trying to get my eating and general health under control, boooo.

ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

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