tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44198028237911357232024-03-13T13:26:00.452-07:00Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in BamaGREASY SPOON BURGER JOINTS IN BAMA -
AL.com ran an article in November 2013 about 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to visit before you die (they are always this dramatic here in the South ...). I intend to hit a few of them, and some that are not on the list but probably should be ...BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-69022737942324929682014-06-30T09:00:00.000-07:002014-06-30T09:00:00.103-07:00Too many joints ...... not enough time.<br />
I started this quest too late, and now I ran out of time. I read about those burger joints in November 2013, and now in June 2014 I am moving back to Germany. But at least I managed to visit all those joints in Northern Alabama, and a few in other parts of the state as well. And keep in mind that I still had another quest ongoing at the same time - the Great Northern Alabama BBQ Quest, which clearly took precedence over everything else. But I am truly satisfied with what I have accomplished on the Burger front - I have broadened my horizon, ate some great burgers, met many interesting, friendly, and sweet people, and had a ton of fun doing it.BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-76017207482595511452014-06-24T21:18:00.000-07:002014-06-26T21:20:10.888-07:00Dub's Burgers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original</b> AL.com list of 22 (plus
35 submitted by the readers) Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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This is a very nice old style restaurant in a somewhat decrepit
strip mall near downtown Athens. There are a dozen or so tables, and a counter
with a dozen or so low bar stools. I had to wait for my two cheeseburgers
all-the-way for about twenty minutes, but only because they were freshly
prepared and the process just takes some time. All-the-way at Dub’s means
lettuce, onions, tomato, ketchup, mustard, and cole slaw on a slug burger patty
between a standard bun. They enhance the standard bun by sliding it briefly
through the grease on the griddle, which gives it a very nice crispy bite – and
a lot of flavor. The aroma of the burger is definitely on the sour side, which
is to be expected because of the mustard and the cole slaw. This is definitely
not your standard taste, but it is certainly very delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And for eight bucks and a quarter, including a sweet tea,
that is also a very fair deal. This is one of those places that are hidden gems
for outsiders like me, but probably nothing special for the locals – it has
been there for over 50 years, and it probably will be still there in another 50
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0400 South Jefferson Street, Athens, AL 35611, USA34.800559 -86.97233189999997234.800508 -86.972410899999971 34.80061 -86.972252899999972tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-51470205233941200882014-06-23T20:56:00.000-07:002014-06-26T20:58:12.654-07:00Big Spring Cafe <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Spring Café </span></h1>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original</b> AL.com list of 22 (plus
35 submitted by the readers) Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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This place is the epitome of a Southern Burger place, the
embodiment of the Greasy Spoon concept, a joint in the pure sense of that
meaning.</div>
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The building is located in a part of Huntsville that has
clearly seen better days – although probably only for a short time. It is
reminiscent of a single-wide trailer, with a tiny worn out gravel parking lot
in front of it, and a weather beaten sign that lost all its colors except for
beige. </div>
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On the inside, you are stepping into a world were grease is
King and the smell alone would give any serious vegetarian an immediate heart
attack. There is a counter with maybe a dozen chrome and red-leather bar
stools, and if you don’t get a place right away, you just stand at the wall and
patiently wait your turn. Which can easily happen anytime, because the place is
usually packed come lunchtime. So I arrived shortly after they open at 10 in
the morning and got a good seat in the middle of the counter. From there, I
could easily observe how the cook would grab some beef out of a big plastic
roll, form it into a burger patty, and place it on the sizzling griddle – all
with his bare hands. Latex gloves are for health inspectors and sissys. In
between patties, he cleans his hands on a towel that hangs from his pants
pocket. Old style, truly old style.</div>
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I ordered two cheeseburgers all the way, which is a beef
patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, mustard, and mayonnaise, between a bun that
is a bit crumbly, a little bit like a biscuit. The size of the burger resembles
that of a slider, not of a Big Mac – but for under six bucks for two cheeseburgers
and a bottle of Pepsi, one can easily afford an additional burger or two if so
required.</div>
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The flavor of the burger is very typical, nothing special,
and definitely awesome. The ingredients are all fresh, and there is enough
grease involved to give the burger a delicious aroma. </div>
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friendly and helpful. The whole joint is just old fashioned, very southern, and
very original. This is were the locals go, and where they don’t mind strangers
at all.</span><br />
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com02906 Governors Drive Southwest, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA34.7201399 -86.6049133000000219.1981054 -127.91350730000002 60.242174399999996 -45.296319300000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-65538888472909636872014-05-30T22:25:00.000-07:002014-06-01T22:26:06.785-07:00Willie Burgers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hartselle, Morgan County</b><br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original</b> AL.com
list of 22 (plus 35 submitted by the readers) Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It is a matter of principle. There is no debate required, nor would it
help to solve any differences in opinion. You either hate them or love them,
there is no middle ground. For those who love them, the crisp outside and the
mushy inside, the fat dripping from the patty, the special flavor of the
beef/bread mix, and the (optional) red pepper seasoning that amplifies the
flavor even more are the stuff of legends. For those who hate them, a slug
burger is not even a burger, but some diabolical concoction sailing under a
false flag.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Here in the Tennessee
Valley, we are blessed with
several old fashioned joints that serve this special kind of burger. Willie
Burgers in Hartselle is one of them. The store is situated in the heart of
downtown Hartselle, on Main Street.
The outside is rather unassuming, and the inside looks as if the 1950s never
left town, complete with several pictures of Marilyn Monroe on the walls. There
is a long counter with about a dozen chrome and red leather bar stools opposite
the cooking area, and a rather dark room with some tables and booths on the
other side. They only have three items on the menu there – Cheeseburgers,
Hamburgers, and Hot Dogs. You can have potato chips as a side, and soft drinks
come in plastic bottles. It is, plain and simple, as authentic as it gets. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I had a cheeseburger, all the way – which means with ketchup,
mayonnaise, mustard, chopped onions, and pickles. That was, hands down, the
best burger of this kind I had so far. No need to gussy it up with the red
pepper seasoning, the flavor was spectacular as it was.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And for just twenty bucks for five burgers, four drinks, and two bags
of chips (I had brought my family with me), this is an unbeatable deal. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I read somewhere that Willie Burgers opened originally in 1926. To stay
in business that long, with those kind of prices, you need loyal customers and
a good product. One that enough people love to come back time and again. Count
me in.</span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0205 Main Street West, Hartselle, AL 35640, USA34.4435274 -86.93494040000001634.4434764 -86.935019400000016 34.4435784 -86.934861400000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-5682951233217943102014-04-25T20:27:00.000-07:002014-04-30T20:29:06.440-07:00Pikeville Store-N-Deli<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scottsboro, Jackson County</b><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the original</b> AL.com
list of 22 (plus 35 submitted by the readers) Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">What you find more often than not at a place where two county roads
intersect is a Pure gas station. Sometimes it is abandoned, sometimes only the
Pure sign is still standing, sometimes it is still operational, and sometimes
it has been converted into something else - like the one on CR81 near Ft. Payne that is a church now, or the one at the
intersection of CR21, CR420, and CR31 near Scottsboro. That one has become a
Deli, but the old gas pumps are still standing in front of the building.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The deli is called Pikeville Store-N-Deli, and as the list of county
roads that lead to it might reveal, it is in the middle of nowhere. There might
even a Blues song exists that describes this place, maybe with a young aspiring
guitar player as the hero, who makes a deal with the devil on that crossroads.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But although this joint is basically on a different planet, it was
packed to the rafters when I arrived shortly after noon on this Friday. I
barely could get a table to sit on and many of the cars outside were actually parked
on the adjacent meadows. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So naturally, I wondered what all the fuzz was about – was there a big
hungry underground population that I did not see on my lonely path to the
crossroads, or was that the usual Alien invasion from outer space for lunch
each Friday, as so many bad 1950s Sci-Fi B-Movies had portrayed? Where did all
those people come from all of a sudden? My bewilderment grew when I scanned the
inside and could recognize guys in business suits, workers in soiled Carhartt
pants, retirees with Bama caps, some middle aged couples, a family with three
small children, some chatty teenagers, and a few guys who apparently had been
on a fishing trip. A more heterogenic crowd could hardly be imaginable. They
all seemed to be in on a dirty little secret, and now here was I, a total
outsider who evidently had stumbled into kind of a clandestine society – of
Hamburger connoisseurs. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Oh well, now that I was finally there, after much head shaking about
the path my usually trustworthy GPS unit had led me on, I decided to dive
headlong into this adventure. But immediately I ran into a problem – there was
no double cheeseburger on the menu. Bummer, I was extremely hungry, because I
hadn’t eaten all day (don’t tell my wife). So I ordered the Cheeseburger
basket, with everything on the burger, plus extra bacon. As it is customary in
old style diners like this one, you order, the food is brought out, and you pay
after you are done. In my case, with a small drink, that came to not even nine
bucks. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">While I waited for my order, I had time to watch a whole flock of Hummingbirds
buzz around a couple of feeders that were placed outside the completely
enclosed porch where I had eventually found a free space to sit. The whole
atmosphere of this joint is very, well, country. It is a typical small-town
American diner, with no frills, practical furniture, and sparse decoration. The
store part of it is rather small, but you can get pickles out of a giant glass
there, moon pie, root beer, and the like. The staff is very friendly and
helpful, and the food is just great.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Cheeseburger in the basket, which also contained very crisp and
tasty crinkly fries, came with a big beef patty, cheese, white onions,
lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard (that I ordered specifically –
usually, they do not put mustard on the Cheeseburger), on a standard bun. Very
juicy, very tasty, very flavorful – and very greasy. In short, this is how a
Cheeseburger should be. The only disappointment was the small amount of bacon –
it barely registered as a taste enhancer, nor as a different kind of texture. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, then, finally, I had cracked the secret of why this place was so
full of people – they all came here for the burgers. No Alien invasion, no
hidden underground community, just plain folks that drove more than just a few
miles to eat good, original, hand made food. My hats off to you, Pikeville
Store-N-Deli, with such a loyal following success will be yours – it is just
too bad that this joint is so far away from where I live. Would that be within
an hour’s drive, I’d be a regular Alien there too.</span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com05182 County Road 21, Scottsboro, AL 35768, USA34.743705299999988 -86.04297429999996934.743654299999989 -86.043053299999968 34.743756299999987 -86.042895299999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-39954542678853873852014-04-23T20:08:00.001-07:002014-04-24T20:28:47.644-07:00Milo's Hamburgers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Milo’s
Hamburgers</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gardendale, Jefferson County</b><br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is not on</b> the original AL.com list of 22 (plus 35 submitted by the
readers) Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama
you have to visit before you die. </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Milo</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">’s sweet tea is a true southern institution since
1946. But Milo Carlton not only made beverages in Birmingham,
he also opened his first Milo’s Hamburgers
joint there that year. Over the years, this mom and pop operation grew into a
small local restaurant franchise, with currently fifteen restaurants in the Birmingham area. Good old
Milo concentrated his business idea on the
sauce for his hamburgers, and according to legend, involved his customers
heavily in the trial and error process to find the right recipe. Well, those
folks back then evidently had a rather peculiar taste – the sauce has an odd
flavor, at least to me. It tastes like a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, A1
sauce, and three weeks old salami pizza. It is neither sweet, nor sour, nor
spicy, nor bitter, nor tart – or maybe all of the above. It is just, well, in-distinctively featureless. The double cheeseburger I had came on a flat bun
that was toasted to a bone dry state, with two equally non-succulent thin beef
patties, some American cheese, chopped white onions, a few tiny pickle slices,
and – drum roll please, because this is touted as the latest and greatest
invention by Milo’s – a couple of slices of thick non-crispy leathery bacon.
And, of course, it was smothered in this dreadful sauce. Yikes. It gave me a
bad case of the burbs, and also some mild heartburn. I had a sweet tea (what
else?!) with it, and together that came to a quarter less than nine bucks. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The atmosphere in the restaurant was very sober – numerous tables, no
booths, no decoration on the walls, other than a couple of posters with Milo’s advertising. It was more a feeding station than a
restaurant. The only good experience there was the sweet tea – but since you get
this in every supermarket nowadays, there is really no reason to go to one of
the Milo’s burger joints to get your fix. The
hamburgers sure ain’t worth going there.</span><br />
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0604 Fieldstown Road, Gardendale, AL 35071, USA33.652956 -86.8226429999999718.130921500000003 -128.13123699999997 59.174990500000007 -45.514048999999972tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-37253516636649268032014-04-17T20:26:00.000-07:002014-04-24T20:27:53.407-07:00Big Chief Drive-in<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Big
Chief Drive-In</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glencoe, Calhoun County</b><br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> the AL.com list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Petty coats and root beer floats. Grease in the hair, Rock’n’Roll in
the air. Little green men from Mars and pink shark-finned cars. Grape
milk-shakes and slush puppy lakes. Life was <span style="color: black;">glee</span>
and gasoline was free. The air was fresh and everybody paid cash. Oh, the old
times were so much better than it is now. Good thing that there are still
places where the clocks seemingly have not advanced past 1955, preserving a
glimpse into a peculiar life style, and not succumbing to the mainstreaming of
the modern corporate world.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Big Chief Drive-in in Glencoe is such a place. The architecture
alone is very, well, special – the building is of triangular shape, and it is
adorned with plates in different colors on a light turquoise background, and a
big Pepsi sign on the roof. And then there are those two the huge metal arrows
in the parking lot, one pointing its tip skywards, the other one pointing to
the ground, with the former having a round shield at the top that has an Indian
chief’s head painted on it. It doesn’t get more gaudy than this. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The inside looks and feels like a classical 1950s diner – a small one,
to be sure. A counter with half a dozen bar stools, facing the kitchen, and
another counter on the window side, facing the parking lot. In the summer, some
additional wooden benches and tables are put in the parking lot. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The menu has everything on it, plus the kitchen sink. A large variety
of burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches, and a huge assortment of ice cream,
shakes, flurries, and sundaes - the menu board stretches across the whole width
of the joint, and the specials are written on small boards that are suspended
from the ceiling. From this dizzying array of choices, I picked the meanest
sounding for lunch – the double Belly Buster.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">That is a cheeseburger with two huge beef patties, American cheese,
lettuce, tomato, pickles, BBQ sauce, and a fried onion ring in a standard
burger bun. Short and simple, that was one of the best burgers I ever had. The
beef was flavorful and juicy, the fried onion ring provided some crunch, and
the BBQ sauce was just delicious. And while I was munching away on it, making a
mess out of the spot I sat and also the burger itself, the owner came by a few
times and gave me some freebees – a cup of grape ice cream, a just freshly
baked donut (from scratch), and a slush puppy. Dutifully, I devoured all this,
because all this was very, very good. Unfortunately, after stuffing myself with
all those goodies on top of the burger, there was no more space in my belly for
the fries that came with it, so they went into the trash can virtually
untouched. This was not only one of the best burger meals ever, but for just
eight bucks also a total steal. Needless to say that the staff was
exceptionally nice, and not only because they gave me all those extra things
for free. I was treated like family and felt very much at home there. The only
bad thing is that this joint is about a two hour drive from where I live. If it
was any closer, I would probably hang out there so much, that I would be
considered family eventually. Worse things could happen.</span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0600 West Main Street, Glencoe, AL 35905, USA33.9619308 -85.939996733.9618793 -85.9400757 33.961982299999995 -85.9399177tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-25950947239379799402014-04-15T19:26:00.000-07:002014-04-21T13:28:24.783-07:00Nesmith's Jumbo Hamburgers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nesmith’s
Jumbo Hamburgers</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Moulton, Lawrence County</b><br />
<br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the extended</b> AL.com
list of 22 (plus 35 submitted by the readers) Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nesmith’s Jumbo Hamburgers is another one of those “slug burger”
joints, where they mix the meat with bread and fry the patties. That makes for
a very crisp outside and a somewhat soggy inside, and also provides a lot of
flavor. But contrary to the name of the joint, the burgers are not jumbo, they
are more adjacent to the size of sliders instead. The double cheeseburger all
the way comes with two patties, chopped onions, ketchup and mustard, on a
standard burger bun. The mixture of bread to meat seemed to me a bit more to
the meaty side, which resulted in a firmer bite in the middle. The flavor was
good, but not outstanding, and it is a must to put some of the red pepper spice
on it that sits on every table. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The restaurant itself, which opened in 1966 and is still operated by
the same family, is a rather small hole in the wall, with a counter that
provides seating for about ten customers on simple wooden stools. There are
also a couple of tables around the corner, next to the big window. No
decoration worth mentioning adorns the walls, and although the place is
certainly clean, it is also a bit stuffy and outdated. With just a little
effort, new wall paint, some old license plates and the like, this could be
easily transformed into an icon of American tradition. As it is right now, it
is a fairly bland joint with cheap burgers – I paid just over for bucks for a
double cheeseburger and a sweet tea – and the exaggerated claim to serve some
kind of “Jumbo” burger. </span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com014396 Court Street, Moulton, AL 35650, USA34.4815653 -87.29090480000002134.4815143 -87.290983800000021 34.4816163 -87.290825800000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-48287958624078095122014-04-04T15:40:00.000-07:002014-04-21T12:43:47.259-07:00C.F. Penn Hamburgers<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">C.F.
Penn Hamburgers</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Decatur</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Morgan County</b><br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> the original AL.com list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to
visit before you die. </i></div>
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When you step into C.F. Penn
Hamburgers in Decatur,
it is like walking through a time portal back into the 1950s. The red checkered
linoleum floor, the sparsely decorated red and white striped walls with their
old fashioned yellowed menu boards, the corny Pepsi clock in one corner, and
last, but not least, the prices for the food instantly make you feel like Peggy
Sue or Johnny B. Goode. There is a long counter with eleven chrome-clad bar
stools, and some of those four-person booths and some of the two-person variety
on the opposite wall and the window side of the restaurant. They accept cash only,
which should not be a problem, because, as said before, the prices are very reasonable.
I paid not even seven bucks for two double cheeseburgers all the way and a
large soda.</div>
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The hamburgers there are a unique
local specialty – the so called “slug burger”. Originally, during World War II
when meat was rationed, the patties for the "slug burgers" consisted
mostly of fried lard with blood and bits of trimmed meat. Nowadays, it is meat
and about one third of filler/extender material, like bread crumbs. This
specialty only exists from North Central Alabama to Corinth, Mississippi,
where they use potato or soy flour as the extender. The extender stretches the
portions and also contributes to the low price. </div>
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The patties are dumped into a large
rectangular frying pan with boiling oil, and pulled out of there when the
outside is golden-brown and crispy. Since most of the flavor of any food comes
either through various spices, or through fat, oil and grease by way of the
cooking process, you get a very flavorful patty here – and in the South, we
know anyway that everything is better when it is deep fried. Outsiders may be
dismayed by this, especially since after you crush through the crisp outside,
your teeth will sink into the somewhat soggy and mushy inside of the hamburger patty
– remember the bread crumbs ... Well, I personally like the two very
distinctive textures of the patty, but it is certainly not the uniform and
standardized stuff you get at those national franchise places. </div>
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The staff there will “pre-cook” the
patties, and there is always a stack of them waiting to be used in a new
burger. Since they will take the upper most patties from the stack for each new
burger, the patties on the bottom are fairly dated when they eventually get to
them. And, of course, you better not try imagining what all that glorious
grease and oil will do to your coronary system or your waist line – it is soul
food, not health food, dummy!</div>
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The really huge double cheeseburger
all the way comes with two of those fried patties, some American cheese,
chopped onions, and mustard between a standard burger bun. There are shakers
with red pepper spice on the tables, which gives the burger a very nice kick in
the pants, and adds an additional layer of flavor, if you need that. You can
have French fries as a side, which are also top notch, especially with some of
the red pepper spice sprinkled on them. </div>
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The staff at C.F. Penn Hamburgers
is very nice, and the restaurant is kept spotless clean. This is definitely a
place where the locals eat, and at any given day there is a mixture of
teenagers, workers, house wives, business people, and retirees to find there. The
building is situated in the revitalized downtown Arts and Entertainment
district of Decatur, just a block away from the fabulous Princess Theatre,
which is a 1950s gems that has been restored to its former glory. I do not know
whether C.F. Penn Hamburgers has ever received a renovation – it probably
exists in a time bubble that defied all outside pressure for modernization
since they opened in 1927. I hope it will stay that way for at least another 87
years, keeping a very southern tradition alive.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Staggs
Grocery</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Florence, Lauderdale County</b><br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> the AL.com list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama
you have to visit before you die. </i></div>
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This is one of those places where no
tourist will ever set foot in. Instead, it is filled with hordes of indigenous people.
The Sheriff will be there, with a couple of his deputies, a heating &
cooling maintenance crew, some old timers with War Veteran caps on, a few local
farm hands, and the occasional Lexus driver. They all come to this place not
because it is fancy, modern, pretty, or even remotely cozy. It is situated at
the end of a run-down storefront in an area that maybe has never seen better times.
The people who come here apparently don’t mind that the weathered green marquise
over the entrance looks if it could come crashing down during the next heavy
rainstorm. Nor do they mind to sit with perfect strangers in soiled work
clothes at one of the half dozen large plastic lawn tables in the dining room,
where everybody just sits wherever there is a free space available. They
certainly do not mind the naked walls, where no picture or piece of memorabilia
blocks the view at the green paint on the walls, and where the only decoration
is an odd Pepsi clock. Some of them will come exactly because of this unique
atmosphere, but all come because of the burgers.</div>
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In Staggs Grocery in Florence, the
burgers are made to order, out of fresh ground beef, with fresh veggies and
they come in the usual varieties of plan and cheese, with or without bacon,
single or double. I had a bacon cheeseburger with fries and a fountain drink,
and did not mind at all that I had to pay not even nine Dollars for it. </div>
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After I ordered the burger at the
big counter that separates the kitchen from the dining room, I sat down at a
table with some young guys who talked about metal music the whole time. The
burger was brought out by one of the lovely ladies who take shifts in serving,
flipping, and assembling of the burgers. It came with raw red onions, tomatoes,
pickles, bacon, a beef patty, cheese and mayonnaise based cole slaw. On the
burger, not as a side. Cole Slaw. Yummy! At first, I thought that ketchup would
be a good idea, but after the first bite I realized that the cole slaw gives
this burger a very special note, which would be destroyed by putting anything
else on it. I must say, this burger was different, but in a very good way. The
substitution of the ubiquitous lettuce with the indefinitely more tasty slaw is
a stroke of genius. It gives the burger a very fresh presence and a distinctive
taste. Different. Good. Yummy.</div>
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I used the ketchup for the fries,
instead, which were very crisp and also top notch. </div>
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Staggs Grocery is in business since
1953, and it is one of those places where you can still feel America as it must
have been back then. Apart from the great food and the unique atmosphere, I
enjoyed a nice chat with the cashier, took a picture of the lovely ladies in
the kitchen, and generally had a jolly good time. </div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com01424 Huntsville Road, Florence, AL 35630, USA34.8044847 -87.65751060000002334.804433700000004 -87.657589600000023 34.8045357 -87.657431600000024tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-3048110765406872182014-02-17T21:17:00.001-08:002014-02-17T21:18:33.930-08:00Smashburger<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Smashburger</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madison, Madison County </b><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>This joint is not on the AL.com
list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to visit before you
die. </i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There are several sure fire ways to end your life – putting a bullet
through your skull will do the trick, or jumping parachute less out of an airplane,
or trying to block the path of a Tornado with your bare hands. Or you can eat
at Smashburger. Your death will not come as abruptly and violently as with
those methods described above, but rather slowly through blocked arteries,
failing kidneys, and ultimately a final heart attack. But cometh it will. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For seven Dollars,
you will get a </span>BBQ, Bacon & Cheddar Burger there, with BBQ sauce,
applewood-smoked bacon, cheddar and haystack onions on an egg bun. Without any
surcharge, you will also get 1000 calories, 79 grams of fat (equaling 640
calories), 200 mg of cholesterol, and 2500 mg of sodium. Can you already hear
your cardiologist talk about the new Mercedes he will buy with the money he
makes treating you? Well, don’t fret about it, for you will not live long
enough to see him drive it. Just as a reminder, the US Food & Drug Administration
recommended daily intake for Sodium is 2300 mg. For fat, less than 30% of the total
calories should come from it. For 1000 calories, that number should then be
300, not 640. The cholesterol level in that Burger is about what you should consume
daily. But you are having some salty fries with the Burger, right? And a Coke?
And some breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening. Please reserve a bed
at Huntsville Hospital’s Heart Center now – you will need it soon, if you consume
those Smashburger burgers on a regular basis.</div>
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Granted, Burgers are generally no health food. But there are
other burgers out there that are not that kind of fat dripping, salty, thirst
inducing, fried onion boasting heaps of over-processed food stuff. And those
are better tasting ones, too. In fact, this “special” smash sauce they put on
it is downright revolting. In the future, I will surely stay away from this
restaurant chain. With 1001 burger joints around here to choose from, there is
no reason to risk damaging my health ever again.</div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com08135 U.S. 72, Madison, AL 35758, USA34.7513221 -86.75393209999998634.751271100000004 -86.754011099999985 34.7513731 -86.753853099999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-25682663819806139002014-01-26T20:49:00.000-08:002014-02-02T20:52:15.019-08:00Five Guys Burgers and Fries<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<h1 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Five
Guys Burgers and Fries</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Huntsville, Madison County </b><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>This joint is not on the AL.com
list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to visit before you
die. </i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Oh well, I hate to admit it, but some fast food restaurant chains
actually deliver a decent product. And a few of those even play in the major
league of greasy spoonism. The pinnacle of that sub-group is certainly occupied
by Five Guys Burgers and Fries, a “casual eatery” that started in 1986 in
Virginia. </span>As of now, the franchise has spread to over 1000 locations in
47 states 6 Canadian provinces. It is the fastest growing restaurant chain in
North America.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
One of the big differences to other
burger joints is that you can choose the ingredients yourself – the Five Guys
claim that there are over 250000 different ways to order a burger at their
restaurants. You can choose between a Hamburger, regular Cheeseburger, or Bacon
Cheeseburger, and 15 different sauces and veggies as toppings, such as Ketchup,
A-1 sauce, BBQ sauce, Lettuce, Tomato, Jalapenos, Grilled Onions, relish,
grilled Mushrooms, and so on.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
After some rather delicious trial
and error, I eventually found my favorite combination – Bacon Cheeseburger with
grilled Onions, Tomato, Pickles, Ketchup and BBQ Sauce. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Everything is made to order, and the meat is not frozen but fresh, and
they grill it. The difference to any other industrial burger is noticeable –
actually, there is not even a contest. The flavor is unbelievable, the meat is
juicy and perfectly cooked, the veggies are crisp and fresh, and the bun is
soft and yet firm. For me, that comes very close to being the ultimate burger. And
as with all great burgers, eating this monster is a mess. It comes wrapped in
aluminum foil and you better grab a handful of napkins when you receive it at
the counter. You can have fries with it, which theoretically come in a Styrofoam
cup. Actually, they usually put as twice as much fries in the bag than the cup
holds. The fries are good, but not really spectacular. Well, I guess next to
the burger nothing short of a naked supermodel would be spectacular.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The only let-down is the atmosphere of the building – Grand Central
Station without the trains. Even with only a handful of tables occupied, there
is a constant noise level to cope with. The ceiling is very high and there is
absolutely nothing in the room which breaks the noise. The walls are adorned
with some rather ugly signs that quote quotes from Newspapers that are praising
the burgers. There are also sacks full of potatoes lying around, and some sacks
with peanuts. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So do not expect any transcendent dining experience here. What you get
is just the best burger of any fast food franchise around. Ahem, I mean casual
eatery. Anyway, get a burger there. Now.</span></div>
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Farm</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Huntsville, Madison County </b><br />
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<i>This joint is not on the AL.com
list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to visit before you
die. </i></div>
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Just a few months ago, the owner of
the Sandwich Farm had a second restaurant in Huntsville, the 3 Skillets on the
Courthouse Plaza. That was a real narrow dive, with a long counter with half a
dozen bar stools, from which you had a clear and direct view on the cooking
griddles five feet away on the opposite wall. They had a couple of very small
tables in one corner, and some tables with big umbrellas on the sidewalk. Their
potato hash brown was divine, and the atmosphere was very bohemian.</div>
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Fast forward to today – the 3
Skillets is no more, because the burden of managing two different localities at
the same time was too much for the owner. So she decided to consolidate her assets
and only operate one restaurant – the Sandwich Farm. That joint is situated at
the edge of Downtown Huntsville, in a tiny business area that also houses a
recording studio, a music hall, and a photographer. So there is some bohemian
atmosphere there, too, plus they have definitely a much, much better parking
situation than in the middle of downtown.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The restaurant does not have any sign with its name on it, just a big
yellow poster with the piece parts of a burger in one window, and some strange
poster with a pig, a cheese, an apple, and a loaf of bread on the outside wall
between the two entrance doors. Inside, you immediately stand before a counter
with half a dozen wooden high chairs. If you sit there, your view is limited to
a giant black-board with drawings and descriptions of all kinds of piece parts
for the several meals they offer on it. Behind that wall is the kitchen, but
other than in the 3 Skillets, what goes on in there stays hidden from the
customers. You can also sit at one of the many tables, which are mostly located
in the longer leg of the L-shaped room (the counter being in the shorter leg of
that L). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I was very happy to find basically the same menu that the 3 Skillets
had. So I chose the Skillet Burger, with extra bacon. That is an in-house hand
cut and ground beef patty with the usual suspects – lettuce, pickles, tomato,
red onions, cheese – in a brioche bun. Brioche? Sounds French, don’t you think?
And indeed, it is French - a pastry, really, that is similar to highly enriched
bread with a rich and tender crumb. It has more butter and eggs in it than
normal bread, and is slightly puffy on the inside, with a somewhat flaky crust
on the outside. Sounds fru-fru, doesn’t it? Well, yeah. To be honest, it is
slightly sweet and thus gives the burger a distinctive flavor. To be quite
honest, I could live without that French sweet flaky puffiness. And the Brioche
did not even elevate the burger to new lofty heights – it was rather pedestrian
instead. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good burger, but really nothing special,
nothing to write home about, nothing to be put on a list of things to try
before you die. It was okay. That’s it.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Because they do not fry stuff at the Sandwich Farm, I had to pick a different
side than the ubiquitous Fries. Which is a good thing – I did not need even
more French stuff on my plate. So I chose the potato salad, which was really
great. Red skinned potatoes in sour cream, only lightly seasoned – very yummy.
I will definitely be back at the Sandwich Farm, but a burger I will not order
there again. They have way better things on the menu. What would go well with
potato salad?</span></div>
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<br />BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0106 Cleveland Avenue Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35801, USA34.7374103 -86.58671119.2153758 -127.8953051 60.2594448 -45.2781171tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-84488212570151143982014-01-11T21:24:00.000-08:002014-01-13T20:13:32.136-08:00Waffle House<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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House</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madison</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Madison County
</b><br />
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<i>This joint is not on the AL.com
list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama
you have to visit before you die. </i></div>
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When they open a Waffle House, it
will be in operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks per year. They
turn out the lights for the first time when they close it for good. They serve
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner all the time, independent of the time of day, no
questions asked. At three in the morning on any given Saturday, you will
probably find every Waffle House in the South crowded with hunters and anglers.
You will be called sweetie and honey by the servers, and if you want to have
your waffles with pickles, strawberry jam, and bacon, they will not refuse you
– they probably have seen stranger things. It is an icon of southern culture.
My son told me the story of a friend, who does not own a smart phone or a GPS,
but is able to navigate his way through Alabama
by using the Waffle Houses as landmarks. So, for some it is not only an icon,
but also a beacon.</div>
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Waffle House Number 1956 is located
in Madison, Alabama. It opened just a year ago or so,
and so it has at least two more decades of service in it before the lights go
out. I’ve been to countless Waffle Houses during my travels through the South, and
of course, its layout is the same as all the other restaurants of this chain.
There is a counter with half a dozen stools, half a dozen booths at the walls,
windows all around the dining room, and an open kitchen where you can witness
first hand how your meal is prepared, if you sit at the counter. The menu is
fairly simple, with typical American breakfast stuff, basic sandwiches and
burgers on it. Although the waffles are a southern icon of their own, I usually
come here to get a sandwich or burger – I am not a breakfast person at all,
preferring hearty food over fluffy sweet stuff, even in the morning.</div>
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I chose the Angus Bacon Cheeseburger,
make it a double please, with all the fixins’ and hash browns. This is a very
basic burger, no frills, no bells and whistles, no nonsense. Just a bun, two
beef patties, cheese and sautéed onions (if you like …). Lettuce, tomato, and
pickle slices came on the side, probably in case somebody is allergic to
veggies or is on a meat-only diet. Since I don’t have any reservations to eat
the food for the food, I put all those veggies on the burger, plus a good
helping of ketchup. The plate also came with a pouch of mayonnaise, which I
pushed aside indignantly. Veggies is as far as I am prepared to go on my
burgers.</div>
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So, as one can see, no fru-fru
stuff, just a plain basic bacon cheeseburger. Well, I do not kid you, as I
write this, saliva is gathering in my mouth, only from thinking about the
burger. I hereby declare the Waffle House Number 1956 bacon cheeseburger the
standard on which every other burger has to be measured against. </div>
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Juicy, flavorful, succulent, tasty,
awesome. A splendid experience. Nough said.</div>
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And the hash browns – divine.
Crispy and savory, in an entirely different league than your ordinary potato
based side item.</div>
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And for roughly ten Bucks,
including a sweet tea, it is a very fair deal.</div>
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I do not know if this particular
burger is equally good in other restaurants of this chain. That could be a kind
of weird quest of its own, to travel from Waffle House to Waffle House,
comparing their Angus Bacon Cheeseburgers. Weird, but certainly entertaining
and truly iconic.</div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com01635 Hughes Road, Madison, AL 35758, USA34.7518201 -86.7409774000000234.751769100000004 -86.741056400000019 34.7518711 -86.74089840000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-72110579244646592882014-01-04T19:00:00.000-08:002014-01-13T20:13:07.611-08:00Hamburger Heaven<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hamburger
Heaven</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gardendale, Jefferson County </b><br />
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<i>This joint <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is on</b> the AL.com list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama
you have to visit before you die. </i></div>
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The AL.com list with the 22 Greasy
Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama you have to visit before you die has two minor
flaws – one is that Number 22 is actually a Hot Dog place (although I am
certain that it fits well into a list of Greasy Spoon places), and the other
one is that one of the joints is actually a small local chain of restaurants.</div>
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Hamburger heaven started out in
1982 with a restaurant in Irondale near Birmingham, and has since added four
more locations in the Birmingham area. They claim to have the World’s Best Burgers,
Shakes, and Fries, and they promise you to make everything fresh to order, and
not to pre-cook, microwave, or thaw anything. They call it the old-fashioned
way, and I find that very commendable.</div>
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From the outside, and also from the
inside, the Hamburger Heaven in Gardendale - which is the newest addition to
the chain – does not look very much different from every other burger joint any
of the big franchises would put on that piece of real estate. There are some
booths, some free-standing tables, a couple of flat screen TVs, and the only
thing you might not find in any of the national burger franchises is a wall
that is decorated with Crimson Tide memorabilia. </div>
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So, the atmosphere is rather unspectacular,
if not a little dull. The burgers, on the other hand, ain’t. I had the Holy Cow
Special, which is a half-pound double jumbo cheeseburger, large fries and a
large drink. I was on my way home from a football game in Birmingham and hadn’t
eaten all day (except for a slimy hot dog in the stadium), so I was hungry as a
wolf, and the Holy Cow Special sounded like something I needed at that time.</div>
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But, holy cow, that is a lot of
food they are giving you for roughly eleven bucks! The burger is huge, and it
comes with all the veggie fixins’. I especially liked the shredded lettuce,
which is much better to handle on such a mammoth burger than the usual leaf,
which always works as kind of a slide for the meat patty and thus makes for a
very messy eating experience. Well, I am not saying that in this case it was
not messy. The sheer size of the burger and the fact that the bun slowly but
surely disintegrated the more I pressed on it to get a good grip, left a pile
of stuff on the plate in the end. Which, I admit this without shame, I
scooped up with some fries. The sauce they use is more on the tangy/sour side
of the spectrum, and it is very delicious. It is something completely different
than the usual ketchup-based concoction, and it reminded me a little bit of a
sour variety of tartar sauce.</div>
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The beef was juicy and succulent,
and very flavorful. Altogether, the whole burger was a splendid mess, so to
speak. But is it the best in the World? Well, I travelled the world to some extent,
and had quite a few burgers, especially in the USA. And while I would not dare
to pass a judgment about if this burger is the best on this planet, it
certainly is one of the best I ever had. The fries on the other hand are really
nothing special, so to include them in the “Best in the World” spiel is a bit
cocky in my point of view. And for the shakes – I do not know. I intended to
have one as dessert, but after I was finished with the burger, I was finished
period. So I guess an additional visit is in order, maybe even at the original
place in Irondale. I will just stay away from the Holy Cow next time.</div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com01301 Decatur Highway, Gardendale, AL 35071, USA33.657469 -86.811246999999988.1354344999999988 -128.11984099999998 59.179503499999996 -45.502652999999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-3267622536265041932014-01-03T20:04:00.000-08:002014-01-13T20:13:47.454-08:00City Cafe Diner<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Café Diner</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Huntsville</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Madison County
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<i>This joint is not on the AL.com
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concept and with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck the whole thing
takes off and spreads to other places. The building in Huntsville they are in has seen its good
share of restaurants. I still can remember the time when that was my favorite
Mexican place. It was cozy and kind of dark in there, with wooden walls, gaudy
decoration, and a lot of nooks and crannies where you could sit virtually all
by yourself. The interior of the City Café Diner is the total opposite – bright
and streamlined, with two distinctive dining areas, one with booths and one
with tables. The decoration consists mainly of neon signs and the ubiquitous
flat screen TVs in the corners. This might resemble a classical diner design,
but for my taste it is a bit sterile. </div>
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Their specialty seems to be cakes, of which they have an
impressive array displayed in some glass cabinets near the entrance. Also, they
have a mix of American food, like Burgers, and Greek food, like Gyros, on the
rather convoluted menu. It took me ten minutes to go through it and decide what
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BBQ sauce. </span>. It comes open faced, with
onions and tomatoes on the side. You also get a small cup of mayo-based cole
slaw, which is actually very tasty. The fries that come with the burger are of
the ordinary kind and nothing to write home about. There were also a pickle
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The burger patty was actually very flavorful and
succulent. I prefer my burger meat to be cooked well done, and that sometimes
lead to it being a bit chewy. Not in this case though, the beef was tender and
perfectly cooked. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the “pulled” pork.
That was a very chewy affair, with big blotches of fat on the diced, not
pulled, pieces. And, of course, it was by no means slow smoked pork. It was
clearly cooked and nothing else. The BBQ sauce was of the thick red
sweet’n’sour Kansas City
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Together with all the fixins’, the
beef patty, and the BBQ sauce smothered pork between the two buns, the
overwhelming flavor was that of the BBQ sauce, with the two meats contributing next
to nothing to the taste. That was not what I had expected and although the
burger was by no means a bad one, except for the chewy-ness of the pork of
course, it was clearly lacking the sophistication the menu seemed to promise.<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com02003 Drake Avenue Southwest, Huntsville, AL 35801, USA34.7045408 -86.5890026000000159.1825062999999965 -127.89759660000001 60.226575299999993 -45.280408600000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419802823791135723.post-62176853614872089042013-06-21T20:42:00.000-07:002014-01-13T20:13:58.818-08:00Momma's Roadside Grill<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Momma’s
Roadside Grill</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Falkville, Morgan County</b><br />
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<i>This joint is not on the AL.com
list of 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints in Alabama
you have to visit before you die. </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A while ago, this was a BBQ restaurant, so I went there to check it out
for my BBQ quest - only to discover that they just applied the finishing
touches to the place to transfer it into a steakhouse. I was disappointed that
the BBQ place had slipped through my hands, but what the heck, since I was
already there and was hungry, too, I decided to eat there anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The restaurant is just off Exit 322 on I-65, and they have a huge
parking lot to accommodate hungry truckers – lots of them. The building itself
is also gigantic, like a gymnasium. Unfortunately, it has a train station feel
to it – there is nothing cozy or homey, just a vast dining room with tables and
chairs. I was the only guest in there, but I could imagine how loud and
uncomfortable it must be when the place is full of people. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Their menu is not very extensive, with only 6 different burgers and
sandwiches, and another 6 entrees like steak and catfish on it. Which is
usually a good thing – apparently they want to concentrate on a few things and
do them right. Nothing wrong with that. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I chose the Momma’s Steak Cheeseburger, double of course. I came with
steak fries, fried onion rings on top of the bun that were kept in place by a
knife instead of the more customary toothpicks. Nice touch.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Unfortunately, the truly delicious onion rings were the best part of
the meal. The steak fries were kind of dry and bland. The burger meat, pure
certified Angus beef, was also dry and I had to use a gallon of ketchup to wash
it down. Flavor wise it certainly was no revelation, but much better than the
common industrial burger served at your national chains. I could taste the meat
aroma because it was not blanketed with a multitude of spices. Additionally to
the two meat patties, there was a big crisp and fresh green salad leaf and some
melted cheese. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">All in all, if you are a trucker and who tries to avoid the golden
arches once in a while, this is a good place to go. As a destination restaurant
for gourmets, the atmosphere and the food are too bland and ordinary.</span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com059 Douglas Road, Falkville, AL 35622, USA34.366712 -86.894752999999988.8446775 -128.20334699999998 59.888746499999996 -45.586158999999981