After the apéritifs at Geno's we decided to go for something a bit more substantial. Five Guys was calling out to us as we walked past, and the smell of double cheese and double meat burgers lifted our feet from the ground and pulled us inside.
The first thing we noticed was that the picture on the wall of the original Five Guys did not match the picture of the staff working behind the counter. Apparently this chain of burger restaurants was started when the father of the five guys gave them an option: $70k for college or business? It was a no-brainer for this family of burger snobs that turned their nose up at Macdonalds: blow the $70K on a burger joint.
The burger came with more chips than we had ever seen in our life. We ordered a large serve, and they were piled so high that there were just as many chips in the cup they were served in as the paper bag they fell into. The potatoes are shipped in fresh daily from a disclosed location. We had never thought about where our potatoes come from before... Anyone would think that the freshness of the potatoes were as just important as Sydney rock oysters. It also made us wonder what would become of the bags of unused potatoes piled high opposite the serving counter. Moreover, Five Guys boast is that because they cook the potatoes in peanut oil, their chips contain no cholesterol. However we could feel our arteries narrowing with every bite.
The burgers did not disappoint. Cooked to perfection with cheese melting on the grill with the meat patty, they removed the taste of Geno's from our palate. We both ordered a cheeseburger with everything, and every bite was just as juicy as the sign on the wall promised. Five Guys definitely made up for our previous disappointment at Geno's. We walked out of Five Guys happy and bloated, our stomachs stretched at major capacity.
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