Holy cow (pun intended) the burgers here are not only tasty but they are pricey! If you enjoy a great flat top smash on your meat, I can highly recommend grabbing a bite at a Gasoline Grill.
This is a small chain that appears to have a good following in Denmark. It reminds me a bit like In N Out Burgers of California fame. The menu is limited and they try to offer a few things other than burgers but really, if you don't like burgers or are a vegetarian, I'm not sure why you would choose to eat here.
For those of us who are solid carnivores, this place is the bomb for a messy, smashed patty style burger. Did I mention messy? These are juice dripping down your chin kind of messy from a combination of velvety beef fat mixed with burger sauce (Gasoline Grill's version of thousand island dressing). They top their burgers with cheese if you want it, some red onion and a few sweet, crinkle cut pickles all surrounded by a soft brioche style bun. Simple but deeply satisfying.
Their fries are institutionally frozen crinkle cuts, fried and hand salted before bagging. They are good but definitely play distant second to their burgers.
The downsides here are they are limited on service and on places to eat. This location at 1:30pm had 2 cooks and a cashier promoting a lineup out the door. At one point I watched 1 cook make their own lunch and leave for the back room to eat and the cashier was in and out of the back trying to eat as well in between taking orders. That left 1 poor guy manning the entire kitchen with lots of customers waiting. I suppose that they can get away with it because no one in the line left but it makes for a really inefficient and long wait for lunch. The other issue is that there is absolutely nowhere to sit and eat. There is a narrow shelf like counter on one wall of the restaurant that can accommodate maybe 8 or 10 people standing shoulder to shoulder sardine style eating while facing the wall. No seats outside and this particular location really has nowhere close that would be appropriate to sit and enjoy lunch so there were people who were eating while sitting on the curb, or using the stone wall across the street by a set of bike racks to lay their lunch on. Again, it seems to work as nobody left because of it, but it is a really inconvenient way to try to eat a fairy messy burger and a bad look for the neighborhood. Would it kill them to put a few small tables and chairs around? It seemed like all the locals were very happy so maybe this is just my elitist American entitlement showing through as a bias.
Finally, the prices here are not cheap. I think everything in Denmark is not cheap but really this is simply a cheeseburger and fries. I added a beer to that and my lunch was about US$29! For that money, the food was simple and the environment was not great since you had to eat in a rush standing up and then clear out. It probably works better late at night if you are drunk and don't care, but for the majority of people trying to grab lunch during a workday, this would not rank high on my list of places to go unless you were really dying for a great cheeseburger.
Four stars for the burger and three stars for everything else. That gets them overall 3.5 stars, but since I can't give them half a star, I will round them up. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed what I had here and recommend it for a great smash burger if you are not on a budget. read more