Fuddruckers (Restaurants in San Antonio)

Member Name: gollygumdrops

Product:	Restaurants in San Antonio
Date:	12/04/02 (393 review reads)
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Advantages: Great food, good prices

Disadvantages: You're gonna get chubby

What a name! You really can’t argue with a restaurant chain that calls itself Fuddruckers. You used to be further discouraged from arguing by the sides of fresh cow hanging in the front windows, but now hygiene regulations mean that the hacking up of bovine corpses takes place in a glass encased butchery within the store. This is not a restaurant high on the Vegetarian Society’s recommendation list, although it does serve a vegetable burger and some salads.

Fuddruckers is a temple to the good old fashioned American Hamburger. For a real US experience try having White Castle for lunch and Fuddruckers for dinner. None of your junk food grey patties here, you can choose from a 1/3 , ½, 2/3 or 1lb beef burger from the regular menu or go mad and select a 10lb burger for a party. You choose how you want your burger cooked, from blue through burnt, with helpful little diagrams showing the level of blood you can expect! They’ll give you a pager to let you know when your burger s ready to collect as every one is cooked to order.

Chicken, ostrich and turkey and fish sandwiches are also available, but if your cardiologist isn’t with you then beef s the only sensible choice. The buns are cooked fresh on site every day and are tough enough to cope with the meat and the “fixins”, oh the fixins!

You can select menu fixins like bacon, caramelised onions, fried mushrooms, assorted cheeses, and chilli (no not chilli sauce, real meat chilli). Then its on to the fixins bar. This is where you can ease you conscience just a smidge. Start with the salad items, sliced tomato, diced tomato, salsa, sliced onions, diced onions, pickles and chilli peppers of all descriptions, oh and lettuce if you must. Then there’s hot cheese sauce, ketchup, mustard – American, English, Dijon, French, chilli sauce, Caesar sauce, cilantro sauce, barbeque sauce, even Lea & Perrins.

Helpfully they provide l
ittle dipping pots so you can gather additional sauces to dip your giant seasoned fries and fresh, beer battered onion rings in.

Before you sit down in the Americana themed restaurant its off to the soda bar where you fill your all you can drink, free refill, cup with pop (stick to diet, you’re gonna need the room). Avoid the real shakes and ice cream floats as even Homer would struggle to down one of these with a meal. Better still, if you have time to eat your sandwich slowly and savour every bite, then this burger joint serves beer.

How does it all taste, well, pretty darned good, although the exact flavour is up to you as it’s easy to go too mad with fixins and over balance your sandwich. Pace yourself!

Eating at Fuddruckers is not a civilised experience. You need two hands to pick up even the smallest sandwich, and I recommend a trip to the bathroom before you leave as I usually discover bits of salad and sauce in my hair, all over my cheeks and chin, down my from, and perhaps more curiously, in my eyebrows.

Fuddruckers sells some divine looking desserts, including pies, cookies and brownies, but there is no way on earth I’d ever be able to leave room for one so I can’t comment on the flavour.

Expect to pay more than you would for a regular fast food burger joint, about $10 a head for a chubby persons meal and drink. It’s well worth the money for the experience alone, and the obsession with fresh, high quality ingredients certainly pays of in the taste department.

Fuddruckers started life in San Antonio, Texas, but now restaurants can be found in most of the United States, with the bizarre and unexplained exception of Tornado alley. Even more bizarrely they have quite a presence in the ex pat communities of the middle east.

Check local availability at http://www.fuddruckers.com/locations/osus.html

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