Jules: "Big Kahuna Burger. That's the Hawaiian burger joint. I hear they got some pretty tasty burgers. I ain't never had one myself. How are they?
Brett: They're good.
Jules: Mind if I try one of yours? *Eat* Mmmmm. That is a tasty burger. Vincent, ever have a Big Kahuna Burger? Want a bite? They are real tasty.
Of course I would start out a review with a Pulp Fiction quote. But it has a point.
Remember Tookie's? That big green house right off the water? Those big juicy burgers? Hurricane Ike? The loss of Tookie's?
Enter STOMP right meow. Conveniently located near La Brisa (the good one on 146) and Bucee's on 96, what you have here is a tasty burger situation, even better than Jules considered Big Kahuna Burger to be in the film Pulp Fiction. The staff of Tookie's moved further down 146 into Bacliff recently. I was here a few weeks ago and it was still pretty brand-spanking-new.
You are going to miss it if you are not paying attention. If you are coming from Kemah or you turned in off of 96 onto 146, it is pretty close after the 96 intersection. If you hit the strip club or La Brisa you have gone too far. The building is sort of an older looking rustic house with a small parking lot right in front of the house's front door. The building is not huge, things do fill up at lunch. They open at 11am and I got there at about 10:55am. The waitstaff was awesome, they did not throw a tantrum and ask us to leave, instead they seated us and we had already ordered our big tasty burgers and drinks before they had "officially opened" - and that is just the beginning of how awesome this place is.
The menu is large and diverse in the world of burger-ology. They have a turkey burger for the health conscious. They have a chili burger for the chili lover. They had a tasty jalapeno based topping burger for someone like me. And unlike most big juicy burger places, you can choose white or wheat. Me and my wheat bun were happy with our first date.
Another reason why I really like this place is that they do not price gouge you to do fun things like get 1/2 order of fries and 1/2 order of onion rings for the truly indecisive person who wants to eat both, but does not want full orders of both right meow.
Burger: high quality ingredients for toppings, apportioned just right in relation to the meat and bun. The meat itself is juicy, tasty, and cooked to perfection. It comes out warm and you can tell it is fresh, it is not a Whataburger scenario at all. The bun is a perfect compliment, it is sized correctly for the meat, it does not swallow the burger and it is not a tiny little cracker on top of meat either.
Fries: they are the larger, heftier sort of fry. It is not a shoe string fry like a Steak and Shake situation. It is more like the kind you get at the supermarket with a big helping of potato inside the skin. They are not bad. It was not amazing, blow your mind fries. 1/2 order was perfect.
Onion rings: I am not an expert on what makes an onion ring perfection, but I did enjoy eating these. They are a bit greasy, but I believe that is the point of them, no?
Waitstaff: friendly, nice, constantly moving.
Will I mosey on down to Bacliff for a burger again? Yes, I definitely will. read more