Yeah! Burger

July 19, 2010 · 6 comments

in atlanta, dining out

The photo above is from the Urban Spoon website as of this morning. #1, #2, and #6 are burger joints. #4 and #5 are great restaurants which both happen to have . Maybe it’s playing it safe, but the people want burgers, price point, family friendly, blah blah blah.

So I went right when Yeah! Burger opened, because it’s close to home and I’ve been going burger crazy.

It was not a good experience. They messed up the order a few ways, and the burger wasn’t up to snuff. They earned plus one points for the copious amounts of gooey American cheese on the double stack, but minus ten for the “gray matter” beef. Can a brother get a Maillard reaction up in this piece?

My sister’s $1 worth of avocado….

Onions rings are stellar. Fries are good except they were served almost cold.

I waited to write this post until I could visit again. They were so new when I first visited, I can’t blame them for the order mishaps and I figured the burger execution could improve as well.

I ordered the exact same thing as last time, only they gave me the bacon jam I asked for on this visit. White bun, grass-fed burger, American cheese, grilled onions, bacon jam.

Sure does look pretty, doesn’t it?

The H&F bun is sweet, light, and the best part of the whole burger. The bacon jam is overcooked and acrid. The meat is still under seasoned and unseared.

With Bocado, Miller-Union, and FLIP within walking distance of Yeah! Burger, it may be a while before I give it another go. I had the Bocado burger six hours after my latest Yeah! visit, and it’s superior in every way. It cost $12, including fries, maybe a buck or two more than the same order at Yeah! Burger. Same goes for Miller-Union.

On the other hand, I’m a burger geek and a lot of people may love the hip area, full bar, and generous portion of cheese casting a shadow over the poorly treated protein.

Yeah! Burger on Urbanspoon

Tagged as: atlanta dining, burger, hamburger, westside

  • http://foodnearsnellville.wordpress.com foodnearsnellville

    Yeah! Burger..

    Love it, hate it, indifferent to it: how much of the attention it receives these days is a product of location? If it exchanged places with Evos in the Sandy Springs Prado(very similar restaurants IMO), how much attention does it get?

    FnS.

  • Smiles

    I had the grass-fed beef with gluten-free bun when I went. Piss poor decision making on the bun. Without gluten, this bread just falls apart in your hands managing to make a mess of the experience. I had similar protein problems, Jimmy. I’ve been ordering my grass-fed beef rare these days so I can get the real taste compared to something else. The piece of meat I got was just grey like you said. Couldn’t taste anything different.

  • Thomas

    Remembering back to Econ. 101 supply and demand cross at some point. Sooner or later the market is over saturated. How many more independent casual burger restaurants can Atlanta sustain?

  • AC

    Of the handful of times I’ve been, I’ve only eaten the hotdog (there is made of grass-fed beef and nitrate free – otherwise I’m scared of hotdogs). The Southern Dog is absolutely delicious, probably the best hotdog I’ve had in my life. The space is too small and crowded, and the food takes too long to come out. Also, it is billed as a family friendly restaurant but there’s no changing table in the restroom (funny how important these things because once a bambino joins the family).

  • http://andiunfold.blogspot.com Stephanie

    “Can a brother get a Maillard reaction up in this piece?”

    Most hysterical thing I’ve read in days. I stumbled across this blog yesterday, and so glad I did. I’m just beginning my foray into the Atlanta food scene, so I’m happy to read coherent (and entertaining) reviews of certain places before I make the effort to go.

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