Dirty dining area, screaming children, deep fried cheesy veggie SLIDER for $7, no allergen information available on the website, sub par veggies, endless regret.
If you love tiny overpriced burgers this place is for you!
So it all starts when I am headed out to grocery shop. Had planned to atop at Aladdins (AMAZING PLACE BTW) for a quick rolled pita before shopping. Went to the Aladdins on Falls of Neuse Road and apparently they've closed that location! Very disappointing but there is one in Brier Creek, unfortunately that's nowhere near where I needed to be. I head down to Trader Joes and see they have Burgerfi right there. I am a vegan so usually I wouldn't even think about it but nothing else appealed to me, I figured they probably had a veggie burger so I tried to pull up the menu on my phone. It said mobile friendly but the menu was not accessible on the site. I looked at yelp reviews and one said they had a veggie burger so I figured I'd take a chance, being that most veggie burgers at restaurants contain some egg or dairy products I typically don't choose them but I was just so hungry!
I go in, the place is a madhouse, very windy outside so as soon as you open the door there are napkins flying everywhere, screaming children, and messy uncleaned tables. I never saw any staff clean tables or even venture into the dining area at all the entire 20-30 minutes I was there. I go to order, I ordered the vegefi without cheese, mayo or sauce. They were out of wheat buns so I had the potato bun. How does a burger place run out of buns? Seriously? Anyway the guy who took my order was nice enough, the burger was almost $7 and doesn't come with fries. I was expecting a $7 house made quinoa and fresh cut veggie burger as the menu described so I thought it might be worth it. I also got a regular order of fries (almost $5) to split with the person I was with. I also ordered a water.
When the food was ready they buzzed us and we picked up. I literally laughed when I saw the food. A huge thing of fries (which were decent and not too salty) but they "burgers" literally looked like a slider. They were TINY and I mean TINY, a child might not be satisfied with that! The burger patty itself appeared to be DEEP FRIED! It was horrific! The toppings were abysmal and falling off the burger before I even opened it. I was starving and just spent $10 on a kids meal? Crazy. But then I bite into the "burger"... It was mushy and somehow cheesy? The only thing I could taste was cheese. It was honestly like they took bread, ripped it up, poured in milk and egg, added shredded cheese and shredded (tasteless) carrot, stirred it up and deep fried it. I don't know if there actually was cheese inside the patty since the website doesn't even offer allergen information (what the hell is that about?!) but my stomach is telling me there was dairy of some kind in there. I am actually lactose intolerant aside from being vegan (tough life I know). It didn't taste "bad" per se, but all restaurants that offer a veggie burger should at least make cheese optional, not inside their patty. Really they shouldn't even have this as an option at all. I would have been happier with a large veggie salad and fries. I felt the description was highly misleading, it sounded fresh and healthy but it was basically a crabless crabcake that had been deep fried.
Normally I wouldn't have been so deeply offended by a disappointing veggie burger at a burger place because I understand it's not really aimed at vegans in general but because of the price, atmosphere and misleading menu I felt I had to review this and maybe save some people a ton of cash. You can do better at Burger King I promise you! Even the beef or whatever burgers looked tiny and I didn't see a single smile in the whole place.
Also, at the end of my light snack, I decided to stick it to the man and get a vanilla coke since they had the freestyle machines. I would need the energy since the food was kid sized ya know. So I take my water cup to the machine and it was out of all the flavorings! Why even have a freestyle machine if you don't have the flavors to freestyle with?
Sorry not sorry, sincerely fuck this place. read more