It seems many of the Five Guys locations have, not so much jumped the shark as landed right in its mouth like Robert Shaw in JAWS. Â
* The Bloomington location's fries are a mushy, greasy glob.
* The Noblesville (and Bloomington) location's burgers remain pink in the middle.
* The Indianapolis location's burgers come out with bits of who knows what that you didn't order stuck to the foil (GAG).
* The Geneva location just needs to get a new loop of music as I'm completely bloody sick of hearing Eddie Money's "Can't Go Back" and Red Rider's "Lunatic Fringe" every time I eat here.
Thank the deity of your choosing that the Schererville location remains the friendliest, tidiest, and preps the BEST burger of the lot. Â Somehow even the sodas out of the freestyle Coke machine taste better. Â Weird, but I love it all the same.
the stars wont work when i click them but this is the best place for burgers ive ever found. schoops is good,ricks is good too, so is red robin, but this is the BEST out of all of them.when you order a burger, not only do you get to watch them being made and fried, but you get 2 patties on one! for 5 bucks,, their fries are really good too, and they have free peanuts in the shell to eat while youre waiting....... and the pop machine is cool too, cuz instead of pushing on a metal bar to get it, you just push a button for it to come out. excellent!
Review Source:I like when places do something simple and do it right. Five Guys is such a place. Burgers, fries, and little else. I was pleasantly surprised to find an outpost of this DC/VA chain in NW Indiana. Fresh ingredients, solid burgers, great toppings like grilled mushrooms and onions, awesome fries, and free roasted peanuts. Burgers are like pizza in that there are countless variations on the theme and everyone has their preferred style (like those West Coasters loyal to In-and-Out), but for my money, this place has the best chain burgers and off-the-chart fries. There's a reason this place tops the Zagat survey for best fast food chain, best burger, and comes in just behind McDonalds for Best Fries.
Note: The regular fries are more than enough for two people and the large serves like four people.
This was probably the most mediocre Five Guys (Fat Guys) I've been to. The fries were not seasoned at all and had a weird taste, and the burger was so greasy that I spent most of the time cleaning my messy self up! However, I love their hot dogs and service and if their burger is even remotely made correctly, then it's awesome. For now, just a run of the mill three star experience. I kind of miss the old Blockbuster.
Review Source:I love burgers and was ecstatic when this place opened up close by. Â While I am not a stranger to the place, (I have gone to the Oak Park, Lincoln Park, and Orland locations prior) and it definitely is the exact same as the other ones (not a bad thing). Â If one is looking for a Schoop's burger, it is definitely way different from them. Â Again, I guess the trend of using 'fresh' ingredients holds true here as well - meat is never frozen, fresh tomatoes, onions, and lettuce are used as well. Â While Schoop's have the loose meat sort'a deal which makes the burgers bigger vertically, 5G stacks em pretty high esp once you start adding a lot of toppings they offer. Â
Fries and nice and crispy and have found them to be a hit or miss among friends. Â They are pretty generous with them though, bc even when they fill up a cup of them, they put in an extra scoop in the bag for you! Â However, expect to share em if you eat with somebody...
4-star bc it was definitely over-hyped, but to be honest with you it is the best around the area - considering there's white castle's, culvers, mcdonald's around there, that's really not saying much. Â But it definitely delivers everytime, and hits the spot whenever I go!
So....Five Guys....
I'm going to be honest; before my vegetarian days, I loved me a *good* hamburger. In-N-Out? Hell yes! Schoops? Don't mind if I do. Now, five meat free years later, I still end up in a burger joint every now and again due to some rather carnivorous friends and family. Even now, I am not bothered by a dinner companion scarfing down a burger or whatnot--it's not my bag, but I am not one to be preachy. So this isn't one of those "vegetarians condemning all things meaty" reviews.
What this is, however, is a "holy-shit-this place-is way-over-hyped" review. Why? Well, because it simply is.
My daughter (a very hamburger receptive omnivore) and I ended up at Five Guys one night when a meeting ran late and I just *knew* that the cupboards were Old Mother Hubbard bare. We arrived around 6:30(ish) and the place was *packed*. Sardine packed. WalMart-on-black-Friday packed. You get the idea. My first instinct was to bail, but my eagle-eyed daughter had already spotted the complimentary peanuts. I was stuck. We were in for the long haul. Seeing as there was zero chance of scoring a table we opted to get our meal to go. My daughter ordered a cheeseburger with onion and ketchup (catsup?) only and I immediately zeroed in on the veggie sandwich. Notice I did not say veggie burger--Five Guys makes a veggie sammie which is basically the burger fixings (tomato, lettuce, onion, etc, etc) on a bun. Seemed odd to me, but I always seem to get a grilled cheese at a burger joint so I was taking a chance. Go me.
The burger was definitely well-done. Not "bravo" well-done, but cooked-through-and-then-some well-done. Yes, I know Five Guys is known for their well-done burgers, but something tells me this was not the pantheon of burger cookery. The veggie sammie was...messy. Hugely messy. And wet...which is odd seeing as I didn't order any sauce or the like on top. It was just...wet. The bread mushy and sopping and pink from what I can only guess (hope) to be the juice from the tomatoes. Just not appetizing. My daughter only managed a few bites before she gave up and started in on her fries (fairly decent) and I went off the vain hopes of finding something to eat within my barren kitchen.
Maybe we introduced ourselves to Five Guys on an off night. Maybe we just aren't the Five Guys type. But given the options in the area, I can't say I'm willing to overlook the hype and plunk down my hard-earned dollars for another go.
I was expecting a really good burger with all the hoopla. I thought everything was just awful! First of all, you walk in, the music is so loud and playing horrible 80's rock music. Second of all my double hamburger was so small and dry, I left feeling very unsatisfied. Thirdly, the fries totally suck! They are undercooked and tasteless. It cost $ 19.94 for a double patty hamburger $ 4.99, and double patty bacon cheeseburger $ 6.29, a small order of fries, two large iced teas at $ 2.09 each. Ridiculous! My husband said his bacon cheeseburger was horrible also. Â If I want to spend that kind of money for a GOOD hamburger, I would rather go to any Schoop's in the area. Even Burger King and McDonalds is better than this crap! I would have given it 0 stars!
Review Source:This is the perfect example of how people in Northwest Indiana crap their pants every time a big-city, trendy restaurant comes to the region. (For other examples, just look at the absurdly long lines that swirl outside the doors of Coldstone Creamery in Dyer and Portillo's in Merrillville. God help us if a Sonic should ever come to the region.) For whatever reason, NWI people think, "If it's in Orland Park or Chicago, it must be the best place EVER."
Let's just take a look at Five Guys and determine if it really is as marvelous as the local press says it is, shall we?
The food. Wow. That was actually a pretty darn good burger for a fast food joint. I'll give them that. You know what, though? I've had better burgers. And for less money. One of the biggest turn-offs of this place was the price of their food. I think I ended up ordering a "junior" size and still came out to an unreal amount of money.
Same deal with the fries. Sure, they were pretty good--maybe above average--I don't even remember because they weren't that memorable. But I think that when I pay a hefty amount for fast food, that food better wow me.
The restaurant itself was a little messy and disorganized. I felt like it didn't have enough seating and if I remember correctly, the seats and chairs were all made of flimsy plastic. If they're charging six clams for a junior burger, I'm sure this joint could scrap out a few bucks for some decent furniture.
Then, there was the whole deal with the peanuts. It really kind of grossed me out. Giant boxes full of peanuts in a burger place don't sound that appetizing. And this was the type of place that where you pick peanuts out of a giant vat and spit the shells on the floor. I'm still trying to figure that out--where exactly do peanuts fit in with burgers and fries?
The last thing I'd like to address (and this goes for all of the trendy chains) is the employees' Â trained behavior. These people were friendly, patient, and helpful (I even witnessed one poor cashier try to help a 187-year old man when he asked, "Now what's a 'burger'?". However, I just can't get over that ludicrous show they put on to make it look like some sort of kitschy, impatient worker-flipping burgers as fast as they can because they're so busy-cooks repeating orders when they hear them from the cashier-type of restaurant. I'm over that. Just because the cashier shouts out my order in some sort of warbled, shorthand restaurant talk and the cooks repeat it doesn't make my food taste any better and it doesn't make it come out any faster. This whole trend of trying to be cutesy in front of the customer is really disgusting. This stands true for those singing nerds at Coldstone and the sandwich-makers at Potbelly that like to strike up conversations.
But somehow, the rest of the population of NWI DOES think that these cutesy little idioms must make the food taste better because they really pack in this place.
A quick wrap-up: food is average; price is too costly; restaurant is kinda dirty; employees are annoying; customers are hillbillies.
Let me start by saying that the burgers at "Five Guys" are solid, good burgers. Â Are they anything above and beyond special? For me? Â No. Â It might be that I have always been and "In 'n' Out" burger gal and anytime I am out on the west coast a visit is usually in the cards. Â Sorry, but In'n'Out is just the best. Â Ok, I'm partial. Â So there.
The Five Guys burgers we had literally fell apart (and I was cautious not to overdo the toppings for just that reason). Â The buns turned into pink lumps of dough halfway through. Â Granted, it was highly edible pink dough, but nevertheless it wasn't the most pleasant way to do cheeseburger.
If you want a great burger in Indiana...go to Schoops, it's worth the hoopla. Â Five Guys? Â Meh.
Wow, I don't get it. How does this place get good ratings?? The only conclusion I can come to is that there isn't much in this area, except chain restaurants and buffets, so people just don't know good food around here.
When there are signs in the windows, quoting people who worship the restaurant, I get worried...They also had a sign that said "Zagat Rated," but the rating wasn't on there.
It's a fast-food joynt and that's fine. We just wanted a good burger. They have two choices in size. The regular and the small. The difference between the two? One patty or two patties. Â They cook them all well-done. Lots of topping options, but the toppings were obviously cooked way sooner than we were served, and you could tell that the "grilled onions" had been sitting in a vat for a while. They were basically just soggy and not hot either. They also put the BBQ sauce on top of the cheese, making it soggy too. They don't even toast the buns, so everything about this burger was just soggy!
Here's what really pissed us off: The girl behind the counter said,"Would you like fries with those?" (They don't tell you that fries come with each burger!) So we said yes and viola! We ended up with two HUGE brown bags, filled with fries and a "cup" of fries was in each bag too. WAY TOO MANY fries! Ironically, they were the only thing worth eating. I didn't even finish the burger. It wasn't good.
The total price, for two burgers (one regular and one small), two fries, a water, a pop? $21. TOO MUCH....
I'm sad that yet another NW Indiana restaurant doesn't know what it's doing and I have been suckered once again.
They'll get over it. The place was packed.
My advice for a good burger? Save some money and go to Schoop's.
They're better and cheaper!
Simple. Â Good. Â
I made the mistake of going a little overboard with the toppings, which is hard not to do when they have so many and so I had to deal with the sloppy factor but everything was very fresh and very good. Â The cajun fries are a little spicier than I expected but so good and the regular fries were excellent. Â Love the peanuts while you are waiting and the free refills are awesome when you make the mistake of ordering jalapenos and hot sauce on your burger and misjudging how hot that will really be!
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