Johnny's Olde Village Grill and Spirits

Good burgers, good fries, decent prices and attentive service. Exactly what you want for a lunch place. I've had a few other things off the menu other than burgers but frankly I almost always end up ordering a burger with fries (battered spud wedges of goodness) and if I had a salad the night before I'll add bacon.

Their flat top has cooked tons of burgers and you can taste the difference.

Not sure about the negative reviews for this place. It's a neighborhood burger joint and the food is really good. You won't see any house-made condiments or jumped-up foodie toppings on the menu but you will get a fresh-cooked tasty burger.

Some jackhole I worked with convinced me to eat here when I asked who made the best burgers in the area.  Yeah....no.

So, their hours are crap, and then I manage to get in there while they're actually open and I decide I'm gonna dice up my day with a massive greasy burger with everything imaginable slapped and slathered on there.  After finagling my way into one of their practically non-existent parking spaces, I go inside.  I end up paying like $14 for the burger with chili and extra bacon, and whatnot.  It took them like 10 seconds to finish the burger, which was odd considering all the claims about fresh real meat. Little did I know this was the precursor to disappointment...

I get the thing back to work, and then I get prepared to start putting the burger to work, only to open the wrapper and find your standard hockey puck patty.  There's no way that's "real" burger.  I've never in my life seen a real burger with perfectly cut edges and uniform roundness...why?  Because it was some generic fakemeat patty.  It tasted like one too.

Moving on from the meat disappointment, I quickly realized that the lettuce had more flavor than the meat AND the chili...SERIOUS!  How the hell can you make chili NOT have flavor??  I mean, that's what chili is: pure flavor.  It's a concoction of things with flavor, and then chili power, which in and of itself is flavoring!!  

THIS IS SOME KIND OF CONUNDRUM BURGER!!

Unless you want to pay a bunch of money to taste only pickles and lettuce, and maybe what may be soy (the "meat"), you're better off with Five Guys...or making burgers yourself like a real man does...but Five Guys is also okay as a substitute for days you don't feel like touting your testosterone in eat form.  Just don't go to Johnny's thinking you're gonna get your fix.

great food - good price. only open for lunch i think - the burger is just as good as sesame...much better then madra rue burger...