Hamburger Mary's

The ambiance in Hamburger Mary's can be described as hanging out at your best gay friend's drag queen house eating crazy burgers and drinks. It's over the top ambience adds some fun to an already fun event. This particular trip we brought the Burger Baronness with us on our adventure. HM is a hike for us but we have been wanting to try to this place for awhile. After doing my first triathlon I thought that a nice burger was proper celebratory food! HM has a large menu of burger choices, the typical build your own to stuffed burgers to crazier concoctions. The burger of the month was something disgusting, I don't remember specifics but basically was like crab meat a weird sauce and a fried piece of fish. Pass. After a long debate I went with the Queen Mary Burger, perhaps a little subconscious plug to my enflated ego after the race. Pretty simple burger; cheddar and jack cheeses melted over grilled onions, bacon, lettuce, tomato and Mary's special sauce. As all of my faithful readers (ok my one, John) know I love some sauce, give me a dipping sauce and I am in heaven. I liked the toppings and the bun but the burger itself was clearly a frozen burger, not a nice handmade one that I had hoped. It wasn't a bad burger just could have done more with it, they spend so much time and care on creating toppings, etc, they could spend a little more time with the star of the show (and not meaning our drag queen waitress). Fries were decent. The Mary sauce I am pretty sure was just 1000 Island sauce which was meh. The Burger Baronness had the Bloody Mary Burger which was my second choice. This tasty burger was stuffed with crushed tomatoes Bloody Mary spices topped with Cheddar and Swiss cheeses and a tomato-Vodka sauce. The sauce was awesome, a little heat a little sweetness. Was definitely jealous of this part of the burger. The burger itself was better than mine probably because it was stuffed. The BB seemed to enjoy it as well. The Dirty Gherkin got the Barbara-Q Bacon Burger which he enjoyed, the bbq sauce was a nice edition he got some spicy sauce on the side which tasted more like wing sauce than a chipotle sauce but whatever. I would have to give the sauce price to the Bloody Mary Burger.

While I did not think that Hamburger Mary's had the best burger in town, it was decent and the fun environment certainly made for this to be a pleasant experience. If I found myself up in that neighborhood again (Andersonville) I would go back. Perhaps for their drag queen bingo!

I give it a B