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<\/a>In-N-Out vs. CaliBurger<\/h4>\n
Then I read about this burger restaurant chain on Vancouver Sun<\/a>. Apparently CaliBurger opened their first location in Shanghai, but the burger recipes were inspired by the popular In-N-Out Burger restaurants in the States. I did hear my cousin rave about In-N-Out when I was in San Francisco last Christmas, but never had a chance to try their food. Basically I had absolutely no idea of what the burger at this place would taste like.<\/p>\n So I dragged Ken to CaliBurger for lunch. It was just past 11:30am on a Thursday. The line-up was still pretty short and we didn’t have to\u00a0wait outside. The place was spacious and bright, and I did feel like getting fast food\u00a0on the beach in California. \u00a0Behind the cashier there was\u00a0this\u00a0large open kitchen, with\u00a0least 6 or 7 people busy working on\u00a0the burgers and fries. That’s a huge assemble line.. I mean, don’t they only have 5 guys working at Five Guys? \u00a0But maybe some people are still in training? \u00a0\u00a0 Then I\u00a0noticed that there was only one cashier\u00a0taking everyone’s order when there were 2 cashier registers. \u00a0 While the line-up was getting longer quickly and extending through the front door, there was still that lone\u00a0cashier working at the front. \u00a0 \u00a0When we got to the front and placed our order, the cashier seemed very friendly, but also\u00a0very thorough and patient, which I didn’t have a problem with at all personally, but I couldn’t help feeling bad for the people on the the huge line-up built up behind us.<\/p>\n We waited for 7 or 8 minutes before our food \u00a0was ready. \u00a0My\u00a0\u00a0Cali Double\u00a0<\/strong>combo, usually costs $12.97, with the burger alone priced at $6.99, but cost me extra $2 for the upgrade to the\u00a0Cali Fries<\/strong>\u00a0from the regular Freshly Cut Fries<\/strong>. After tax the whole meal cost me a whopping $15.72!<\/p>\n And the burger was not bad, although not super amazing. Combined\u00a0with grilled onion and melted cheese, the beef patty was seasoned well and cooked\u00a0nicely, which gave it some\u00a0decent\u00a0flavour. However\u00a0the patty itself\u00a0was not\u00a0very dense. I don’t mean I wanted the meat to be tough and chewy in my mouth, but I was expecting the meaty and succulent texture from a hearty piece of meat. There were also tomato, lettuce, pickle, and mayo sauce \u00a0in the burger but they didn’t really taste\u00a0anything special. \u00a0I know they were labelled as \u00a0‘Fresh Quality Ingredients’, but how fancy can you get if you use iceberg lettuce? \u00a0 The burger buns were holding up well enough during the whole meal, which deserved a couple\u00a0extra points.<\/p>\n Before I dug into my Cali Fries<\/strong>, I tried a couple pieces from Ken’s regular Freshly Cut Fries<\/strong>. Those fries were thin and tasted all right. They could be a little bit crispier, just enough to give a better texture. And now my Cali Fries, topped with melted cheese, grilled onion, and some pink aioli-looking sauce, all together it looked like\u00a0someone just scraped off the toppings on a cheese onion hot dog and dumped the whole thing on top of the fries. As the toppings got cold pretty quickly, the fries became a soggy mess, and I didn’t want to touch after a few\u00a0bites.<\/p>\n I had a bite on Ken’s Chipotle BBQ Chicken Sandwich<\/strong>, and it tasted pretty fresh. Ken however, said he would prefer my Cali Double burger.<\/p>\n Thank goodness we came in early (11:30) and we only had to wait for 12\u00a0minutes before we got our burgers. It took us 30 minutes to finish\u00a0our meal. But during that time,\u00a0we witnessed that the folks who came in just when we sat down with our food, still didn’t get to place their orders when we finished. \u00a0Also during the whole time, there was only ONE cashier taking people’s orders while 6 or 7 people in the kitchen working on burgers and fries. Really not sure what was going on. \u00a0Although the burger was decent, I had\u00a0difficulty finding the food here worth the price and waiting over 20 minutes for. \u00a0To me the burgers here didn’t seem more enjoyable\u00a0than A&W’s. For a better comparison to a similar restaurant, although it has been a while since I went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries, \u00a0to me\u00a0the\u00a0Five Guys burger is definitely more memorable with that\u00a0satisfying meaty texture I seek in a good burger.<\/p>\n Website:<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/caliburger.com\/vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n More reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>The Experience of the Line-Up<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/a>The Burger<\/h4>\n
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