Punch Burger

Good burgers 🍔 and local beer 🍺
Just tried this for the first time today and I really liked the options of laying out whatever you wanted on your budget from the big chalkboard wall. They also had $2 pbr points and a couple of local beers 🍻 on tap which is always nice.

My wife got the regular burger and it was perfect 👌. Cooked exactly right with nice fresh veggies to top. I went for the 'burger of the moment' which was a duck burger with bleu cheese and some strawberry stuff. It was good but not excellent, though the raffle fries 🍟 were very good.

Decor and atmosphere were clean, bright, modern and relaxed which was good.

Sweetness.. A burger joint which has actual options for vegetarians and vegans!

Like almost every place I visit, I found Punch on Yelp when searching for the 'best burger' near me. The burger request came from my man, which often creates quite a bit of research on my end to find a place that does not leave me hanging with ordering a dehydrated boca patty or basket of fries as my only option. The more I read online, the more excited I got. Yay for feeding him locally sourced beef without any added yuckiness like hormones and double yay for the (apparently tasty) vegan burger patty available for me.

Using the bigass board which covers a full wall, all options are laid out for your total burgah customizability. He went for the crispy burned cheese variety and I added lettuce, tomato, onion, homemade pickles and spicy (sriracha) aioli to mine. We ordered a mixed side of sweet potato tots and waffle fries and were good to go.

The decor is somewhat reminiscent of the Smashburger chain; very open, sleek and 'European' looking. Which is not a bad thing at all (says the European).

They have one of those cool Coke machine gizmo thingies also, which make me giddy and excited.  Like I just mentioned, the actual non-meat patty is vegan and consists of vegetables?  I am not sure what it is made of but it was pretty tasty!  The white buns are also supposedly vegan, and there are plenty of fresh veggies to chose from topping-wise.  

Seeing I am not vegan I stole some crispy cheese bites off of my husbands burger, and man was that good.  He chose the aptly named 'burned cheese' burger, which they create by cooking the burger patty on the flat top, with pieces of cheese overlapping and oozing over the sides.  This  cheese melts and becomes crispy and burned, kinda like those amazing bites of goopy cheese that get stuck to the pan when making a grilled cheese.  They then fold the cheese over and wrap the burger in it like a neat little gift.

The tots had a good flavor but were a little soft and flimsy, almost as if they were oil-logged which was strange.  It seems as though perhaps the oil is of too low temperature, rendering it impossible to create a crispy outside and cooked inside (deep-frying 101). The waffle fries on the other end were decent, nicely seasoned and crispy.  

Sadly my husband found a little surprise in his burger.  While eating he got stabbed with something in the roof of his mouth and upon examining this curiosity, he pulled out a stick looking thing.  He brought it to the attention of a staff member whom proclaimed, 'oh, that's a stick'.  Umm. Yeah?! Annnnd?  And nothing, nothing like a sign of concern or an apology.  Okay then.  

If I could give three and a half stars I would, both burgers were good and they have a pretty cool thing going.  Props for pffering a solid veggieburger and for selling brews alongside burgers. Parking can be tricky, as Punch Burger is located in downtown Indianapolis.

Punch Burger welcomed our loud group with open hands. The place was very retro and clean, as the staff was friendly.

The parking was not exactly the greatest, but I may not be a fair judge residing in Las Vegas, NV.

As for the food, the waffle fries were delicious! Something out of the ordinary that not many people have these days. My burger was good as well, not spectacular though. The condiments were available at a table in the center of the restaurant, and the drink fountain was unique, as well as retro!

Overall a great joint, and nice scenery. We had a good time, and I would probably go back if I weren't half a country away.