Well finally, this post is going to be a little more personal, longer and justified because I came back to the place where I think my taste for hamburgers was transformed into fanaticism. And I say because it was in this BurgerFi where I can say that "I discovered" that there was, at least in the United States, a huge world that I did not know about "Premium" hamburgers and much better than those of McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy ' S, etc.
I like burgers from the moment I remember, since I was a kid I was quite a fan and I was lucky that in the 90's I went with my family a few times to Miami and Orlando. Besides the famous "one to one" I have family there and that helped and encouraged us to go almost every year to visit them. What happens is that although my brothers and I asked to eat hamburgers almost every afternoon, my old man always took us just to McDonalds or Burger King, the same as we had in Argentina. I think we simply "ignored" that there were so many options, that I'm not sure that there were in the 90 but I suppose so and that by then there would be many chains. It was already the United States say ... guys have been fanatic about hamburgers for over a hundred years.
However, as I was saying, I discovered this other world much later, precisely in 2013 when for my birthday I went a week alone to Florida. It was a special personal moment, I did not want to celebrate my birthday in Buenos Aires and I was embarking on a personal project that I'm still pursuing, which I'm going to post in the future, and that also took me to travel to the United States to buy equipment and things that Argentina would have gone triple. Then I killed two birds with one stone and I left but with a fairly limited budget which led me to stop at a hotel in Lauderdale by the Sea which is an area that for me has the right tranquility. It is not a perfect and desolate wasteland like other residential neighborhoods more to the north of Florida but neither does it have the chaos of South Beach or even Fort Lauderdale (although it is next to the latter). This hotel was just a block from BurgerFi and one of the first days of the trip I decided to try. Well that's where all this started ...
I was very surprised, the "flipé" as the Spaniards would say. I discovered hamburgers that cost double Mc or Burger but incredibly rich, far superior to what I knew. In that week I spent there I think I went to BurgerFi at least three times. Later that same year I had to go back to Florida for laburo and luckily I was able to choose the hotel. And I assure you that although this time I went to a more beautiful hotel, I chose it in the same area to be able to go back to BurgerFi. eur-lex.europa.eu
In 2014 I made another spectacular trip and I met the west coast of the USA but this franchise, which started right in Florida, has not yet reached the other coast. I stayed with the desire, but that is just one way of saying that on that trip was the first time I took the hamburgers "seriously" and I did a previous research to travel and thanks to that I could meet several more chains of the Which are sure to speak in the future and were also necessary steps to begin to consider me a humble connoisseur of meat sandwiches, cheese and bacon 🙂 and finally now I decide to make this blog (what a nerd!).
Well now I went back, it must be easily the sixth or seventh time I'm going to eat at this place and I always go to the same one because although I've seen other BurgerFi's I like this, the Lauderdale by the Sea that is right on the A1A and Commercial Blvd. I just explained why it's special to me and I also choose this one because it's a busy place, they spend good music, they cater well, it has a very nice long wooden table, I do not know ... it's very well decorated, me I love the wave and I like to be there. Several of the times I went I easily stayed 45 minutes after eating at a table using WiFi and trying different soda from the great Coca Cola machine that I will later write.
On this occasion I ordered the classic cheeseburger that they make double and for almost 2 dollars they add the infaltable bacon. It is not huge, but asking for this which is double can already be said to fill you up and I am of good appetite. Also if they ask as I did, despite being noon haha, something to accompany I assure you are well filled, even some "weak" will not be able to finish everything. The hamburger is one that mixes all the flavors a more complex one. As a great friend of mine would say, it is almost like a "cream of meat and cheese" what is formed and the only thing that is noticed a little more because it is crispy is the bacon, which almost magical textures detail. The bread is like a foam and when you grab the hamburger it will crush and stick to the meat, as I said before as everything "fuses" into one thing.
I accompanied her with onion rings and the truth is that they deserve a separate chapter. Not only because they are rich but because they are easy to triple as big as anywhere (see the photos) and because I was surprised how dry they are to be fried. Only one of the rings they gave me, the one below, was a bit oily. The french fries I have asked for in another opportunity and the portions are more than abundant, exaggerated and can be added several toppings.
The menu is varied, they have veggie options, they sell panchos that I have never tried, there are plenty of free toppings and they also have other premiums at a dollar each: mushrooms, fried egg, various types of cheese, sauteed onions, pickles, etc. The desserts I have tried and they are good, I have ordered the banana shake and it is excellent (they put real fruit). I also ordered the "concrete" chocolate and it is the most power I've had in desserts, you have to cheer up that beast.
For drinks have, and I find spectacular, two Freestyle Coca Cola machines in which you can assemble (as I read) more than 100 different soft drinks of the brand. You go selecting and combining on a touch screen, obvious refills included. They also sell beer and wines.
To close, I spent about $ 16 and spent, like the previous times, great. They are hamburgers to get enough of their hands, it is very funny what the napkin holders say and see in the pictures how many napkins I had to use: D. Do not stop going, the place has the whole wave and eat some hamburgers fucking.
Points : 4 - Excellent -
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