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04-23-2018, 03:29 PM
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#1242
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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The Burger Thread!
Is there only that one picture of the burger? A little more burger porn, please.
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05-03-2018, 02:55 PM
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#1243
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Has anybody been to the Inglewood Drive In? I keep thinking of trying it as it reminds me of the type of "hole in the wall" places you see scattered around Manitoba. Trouble is that for every two of those that are good, you'll find one that is horrible.
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05-03-2018, 10:23 PM
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#1244
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Originally Posted by ken0042
Has anybody been to the Inglewood Drive In? I keep thinking of trying it as it reminds me of the type of "hole in the wall" places you see scattered around Manitoba. Trouble is that for every two of those that are good, you'll find one that is horrible.
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It’s horrible
One of the worst burgers in the city
Burger 320 has a location in Iglewood. Go there instead
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05-03-2018, 10:55 PM
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#1245
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Burger 320 is $8+ for a tiny single patty burger, and it's a pretty average burger at that... hard pass
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05-04-2018, 09:51 AM
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#1246
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by ken0042
Has anybody been to the Inglewood Drive In? I keep thinking of trying it as it reminds me of the type of "hole in the wall" places you see scattered around Manitoba. Trouble is that for every two of those that are good, you'll find one that is horrible.
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It's very average, fairly cheap though.
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05-04-2018, 02:00 PM
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#1247
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: CALGARY!
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I like the Inglewood drive in. Stop there a couple times in the summer during my city wide bike rides.
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05-04-2018, 02:14 PM
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#1248
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary
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Anyone tried The Rock on 17th Ave SW?
http://www.therockcalgary.com/
Had their beef burger - it is in-house ground, and they can cook it med-rare.
I quite enjoyed it, and want to try some of the other game burgers.
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05-04-2018, 09:21 PM
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#1249
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
Anyone tried The Rock on 17th Ave SW?
http://www.therockcalgary.com/
Had their beef burger - it is in-house ground, and they can cook it med-rare.
I quite enjoyed it, and want to try some of the other game burgers. |
I love that place. It’s a hidden gen for sure.
The menu focuses on burgers but once a month they do a chef’s table event with a prix fixe menu. The owner/chef is classically trained and used to have a more diverse menu, but I think he pared it down because the burgers were the biggest sellers.
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05-08-2018, 09:34 AM
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#1251
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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What were you expecting from the Blackfoot Truck Stop? And when will you post more photos of the food?
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05-08-2018, 09:59 AM
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#1252
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
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So bizarre to think about how ubiquitous frozen burger patties were about 20 years ago. Being served one now is almost jarring.
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05-08-2018, 12:57 PM
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#1253
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it will come as very little surprise to anyone who reads this fourm one and a while that the boardwalk burgers on heritage and fairmont is currently undergoing some reno's - not sure when they will open.
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05-08-2018, 06:29 PM
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#1254
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Originally Posted by Wormius
What were you expecting from the Blackfoot Truck Stop? And when will you post more photos of the food?
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Will try to take more photos of the food, though we are limited in terms of how many images they want to put in the articles.
Some of these types of places have great burgers - it is how we found Naina's originally when she just had a dive in the Ramsay area. So you gotta seek out those great burgers in little known spots.
Though sometimes it means you also end up with a burger like this .
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05-09-2018, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
Anyone tried The Rock on 17th Ave SW?
http://www.therockcalgary.com/
Had their beef burger - it is in-house ground, and they can cook it med-rare.
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Med rare? No.
Hamburgers are not steaks.
E Coli can exist on the surface of meat and dies at a low temperature. Or essentially if you get grill marks on a steak, you are fine.
If you happen to have the right strain of bacteria on the surface, grind it in to the patty and undercook it, you can get quite violently ill. Been there. Food poisoning from an undercooked burger. At the District a few years back. They reassured me it wasn’t possible as they ground their own beef. They clearly didn’t understand that bacteria exists, disturbing the surface and driving the bacteria in to the middle of meat and undercooking it can allow it to survive, and part of why certain food is cooked is to kill the bacteria.
Just saying. Cooking to a safe temperature does not mean a dry burger. House ground doesn’t mean from the magical land where bacteria doesn’t exist.
And a hamburger is not a steak.
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05-09-2018, 08:36 AM
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What actually is that temperature? I'm thinking in terms of sous vide burgers. What would you have to cook it to to be reasonably sure?
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05-09-2018, 08:55 AM
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#1257
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What actually is that temperature? I'm thinking in terms of sous vide burgers. What would you have to cook it to to be reasonably sure?
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I believe E Coli dies at 155 F and have seen 160 as the guideline
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05-09-2018, 09:08 AM
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#1258
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Norm!
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I appreciate your reviews, but there's never any surprise when you go to the Blackfoot truckstop.
Me and a friend of mine go there once a month to catch up since we don't talk much anymore.
But you hit the nail on the head, the Truck Stop is never about the food or the food flavor, its about community, and a look into the past where we didn't have chain restaurants that focused on the unique menu.
In the words of Cookie from City Slickers the foot is hot, brown and there's plenty of it.
When you order anything you're blown away by the sheer quality of it. But the flavor doesn't blow you away. The breakfasts aren't as good as they used to be, but you're eating it for the sheer bulk, their "Home made syrup" is flavorless, and their pancakes are doughy, their hashbrowns are either out of the bag tater totts or a heavy scoop of deep fried something.
Their hamburgers don't inspire, and their daily specials are heavy on grease.
But you go there to people watch. the people that eat here are in their 50's to 80's, they want a budget fare that will fill them up for two days. Its also for the blue collar guy who believes in a huge breakfast to kick off the day.
the Staff rarely changes, its the same girls serving the meals as it was 10 years ago, and they seem to have a policy of hiring middle aged waitresses with character and a policy against hiring anyone under the age of 40.
Its fun to go there and seeing two old guys debating each other from across two booths while frantically adjusting their hearing aids. Its fun to see a couple of long haul drivers catching up at the counter.
but the foods not for everyone, and chances are if you clean up your plate, sometime a few hours later your eye lids are going to get heavy.
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05-09-2018, 10:17 AM
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#1259
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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I think places like Naina’s had a bit of a following already even before BQ. I don’t believe BFTS was known at all for burgers.
I don’t know though, I guess the review just rubbed me the wrong way. It’s kind of a Calgary institution and going there to review hamburgers that aren’t going to compare to remotely close to anything out there just seems to be following the trend of being negative because it’s more entertaining. If there was some huge word-of-mouth thing saying that you had to try the burgers and they came up short, then sure that’s fair game.
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05-09-2018, 10:22 AM
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#1260
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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So, last night I went to Blue Star again. Their beef burgers are good, but these guys are magical when they do anything with Pork. Their Chorizo Pork burger, their pork schnitzel, any of their specials - if it's got pork in it, it's a good burger.
Not strictly burger quest compatible, but I don't care, it's good stuff.
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