Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 6, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 6, 2018 I am a fan of modestly-priced American food, and Chevys was my favourite almost-junk-food. We would often visit the Burbank location after driving back from Vegas after NAB, because it was often lightly-populated, which of course may have been the problem. Still, since there was table service, I got to feel like a grown-up. However, I notice that the locations in Northridge, Burbank, Glendale and the one in what I think of as Sherman Oaks (but which may theoretically be Van Nuys) are now marked closed on Google Maps. Now I'm faced with the unpalatable options of going all the way to Ontario, California, or to Poquito Mas, which serves its food in disposable trays. Ugh. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 YOU TRAVEL ALL THE WAY TO AMERICA FOR GOD DAMN CHEVY'S?? I love fast food and that place is a punchline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 6, 2018 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 6, 2018 YOU TRAVEL ALL THE WAY TO AMERICA FOR GOD DAMN CHEVY'S?? That's what I tell the tax office when I expense the travel. We do have Mexican food in the town where I live, for some value of "Mexican." The problem is that its... It's... Sob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted August 7, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 7, 2018 So wait; this is what you all spend your tax dollars on? Damn Socialism is weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin R Probyn Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Are free burgers part of the manifesto ..?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted August 7, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 7, 2018 It is only free to the proletariat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin R Probyn Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Give them burgers ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Compton Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Dude....... The next time you visit Los Angeles go to In-N-Out and get the Animal Style Fries and order a "secret menu" item like the Flying Dutchman. You will go back to the UK full and happy. Fat Burger is ah-ight, but forget everything else. It's all basic level stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 8, 2018 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 8, 2018 Dude....... The next time you visit Los Angeles go to In-N-Out and get the Animal Style Fries and order a "secret menu" item like the Flying Dutchman. You will go back to the UK full and happy. Fat Burger is ah-ight, but forget everything else. It's all basic level stuff. Oh, I couldn't possibly agree more - In-n-Out is the other reason to spend time in the southwest United States. There's actually one within a short walk of where the Chevys in Burbank was. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 In-N-Out is for California yuppies, go to Fuddruckers and eat the unlimited fix-ins Then go to Golden Corral in the same day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted August 8, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 8, 2018 I'm a bigger fan of 5 guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 8, 2018 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 8, 2018 Yeah, but we have that here (and it's outrageously expensive.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 (edited) Yeah, but we have that here (and it's outrageously expensive.) Eek, 8+ quid from a place (Stratford Westfield) I'd stick pins in my eyes to avoid visiting. Only time I went there I asked them to ban me but I hadn't done anything wrong so they refused. Only consolation is Tap East pub which you can actually get to without going inside the shopping centre if you're careful. Edited August 9, 2018 by Mark Dunn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 9, 2018 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 9, 2018 There's now a Five Guys on more or less every street corner in the west end. I went in one of them having only glanced at the food options, not the prices, and had a very acceptable cheeseburger, fries and a coke with a friend. I ended up shelling out so much money that I staggered home bandy-legged and being ginger about sitting down. Tasty, but good grief. I've not been back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted August 9, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 9, 2018 I do believe they are called Chips. . . lol IT's actually insane to me that five guys is all the way over there. I recall, well I suppose it is awhile ago now, the fanfare of the first one opening up in Philadelphia when I lived there. Or even last year or the year before when it moved to LA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 There's now a Five Guys on more or less every street corner in the west end. I went in one of them having only glanced at the food options, not the prices, and had a very acceptable cheeseburger, fries and a coke with a friend. I ended up shelling out so much money that I staggered home bandy-legged and being ginger about sitting down. Tasty, but good grief. I've not been back. Yeah Five Guys is probably the most overpriced fast food ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Compton Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 go to Fuddruckers and eat the unlimited fix-ins Church. FUDDRUCKER'S makes some of the best burgers in the world (first to offer the Bison burger before Ted Turner made that idea into a franchise), I grew up on that stuff. They have fewer locations, nowadays. DO NOT EVER suggest GOLDEN CORRAL to our UK brethren. That stuff is cafeteria sludge for mouth breathers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 DO NOT EVER suggest GOLDEN CORRAL to our UK brethren. That stuff is cafeteria sludge for mouth breathers. You go to Golden Corral for the experience, not so much the food. Thinking about 3rd world countries while loading up your plate is the funniest experience you can have at a restaurant. It's also a risk-free Russian roulette because you can get everything that looks disgusting, take 2 bites, and then tell the waiter to throw it out free of charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adam Frisch FSF Posted August 10, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 10, 2018 Shake Shack does a great burger here - it has sailed up as one of my new fav's. The Habit here in SoCal is also damn good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin R Probyn Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Just had an AW burger in Okinawa .. only place in Japan that has them.. for all the US base people.. was pretty good.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Phillips Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 for the record, I hate you all for starting this thread. I now have a Chevys quesadilla and pepsi craving that shall never be satisfied... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted August 14, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 14, 2018 And here I am just craving a bacon cheeseburger of some flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 14, 2018 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 14, 2018 Get the one from Jack In The Box. The one that's nine hundred and thirty calories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 Rookie numbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted August 15, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted August 15, 2018 ^^ Truth. You forget Phil, this is 'murica and we want our food like we want our Ford Fteen-thousand truck's fuel bill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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