The boy and I are in the area for a family get together and thought we'd give Carl's a try and see how it stacks up to the likes of Maccas and HJ's. Well I can safely say I would choose Carl's over the other 2 in a second.
I'm not a huge fan of fast food, I'm that person who inspects their food before they eat it and the look of fast food meat patties makes my stomach turn but with eyes closed I gave it another shot.
It's a bit wet today so we just went through drive thru and sat in the car to eat it, we were in drive thru for 5 minutes max and the majority of the time was deciding what to get! I finally decided on the Western Bacon Cheeseburger and onion rings and the boy had the Famous Star with Cheese and Fries.
The Western Bacon Cheeseburger is a beef burger with bacon, cheese, onion rings and a smokey BBQ sauce, I was a fan. I love the smokey BBQ sauce the downside was the bacon, it was too much fat for the amount of bacon.
The Famous Star with Cheese is basically a Whopper with Cheese (in my opinion). It's a beef burger with tomato, onions, pickles, lettuce, mayo and tomato sauce. The boy thought it was pretty good, some may say better than a whopper the only downside was that it was very sloppy due to the sauce ratio.
As for the fries vs onion rings, I'd always choose onion rings over fries any day!
Overall we were happy with the experience for a fast food resturant however the greatest disappoint of all was that they didn't have Dr. Pepper! read more