After a 2 week hiatus in new Burger Quests, KK and I traveled to Lucky Burger on Richmond for lunch on Friday May 7 -- my first of 3 new Burger Quests in a 24 hour period. Lucky Burger is 35 years old and has been reviewed very positively on city-data forums and their website (http://www.luckyburger.com/index.php) lists accolades such as being named City Search's best hamburger in 2007. The building itself would be pretty hard to pass up, though I'm not sure why a barrel was used for a burger restaurant:
Before I go forward with the negatives, let's talk about the positives. The lunch special was $7.64, and it included a double hamburger with french fries and a drink. If nothing else, the prices are a steal for aspiring burger questers. KK and I were in a hurry to get back to work, and Lucky Burger did not fail us in that regard...the hamburgers were out in about 5 minutes. The french fries were outstanding, even for a discriminating french fry connoisseur, and the Small size provided plenty of fries to accompany a burger.
Unfortunately, that's about all I can say for the positives of Lucky Burger. The burger itself, like Mytiburger, tasted much like What-a-Burger, only slightly better. The patties were 1/4 pound patties, but they were somewhat chewy and had that What-a-burger flavor we all know here in Texas.
I think the best thing I can say about Lucky Burger's burger is that it wasn't really memorable at all. If you ask me what it tasted like in a week, I don't think I could really tell you -- it really wasn't that good or bad. I would go there again if I were in the neighborhood and hungry, but I don't see any future Lucky Burger cravings sneaking up on me.
Final rating -- 5.
(For the record, KK also gave it a 5)
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