Went there last night for the Love Castle treatment. The place was very cozy and decorated perfectly for valentines day. The waitresses (which aren't usually table service waitresses) were dressed well and festive, plus everyone was very nice! I had never been to white castle before, but I will definitely return! The food was very delicious. I love the little boxes everything comes in. We got to keep our menus, and they even took souvenir photos of my boyfriend and I. Some igh our camera, then some for their Facebook! "love castle" is a great idea, for families or coples. I highly recommend anyone to try this next year! It was my best valentines day hands down :). Thanks love castle!
Review Source:Harold and Kumar had the right idea! Those little tiny burgers were worth all the stuff they went through!
For my short visit in Chicago I had to try this place, they pop up like McDonald's in LA. Let's see what the hype is all about.
20 please, 10 cheeseburger, 5 regular and 5 Jalapeno cheeseburger (which tasted like pepper jack cheese)
I wasn't able to eat these little critters fresh but once I got them back to LA, I popped them in the oven and viola, BOMB!
These tiny burgers are good and I can see why you would have to order a crap load of these. You can't get enough. Onions cooked into the meat, with one pickle and cheese. Super yummy! I want MORE!!!
Pricing is different for the different burgers they offer, Regular, cheeseburger, jalapeno cheeseburger and bacon cheeseburger. Happy eating folks!
LOL...who compares White Castle to In-N-Out (which, by the way is over hyped)? Â
I'm not even writing about the food. Â You've either eaten it before or you haven't. Â This is about the parking lot (because really, who goes inside to eat?) Â
If you are going late, as most self-respecting people would, be prepared to deal with some crazy ass people. Â After a night of boozing, I wanted grape pop. Â My friend wanted McDonald's but I was like "eww, and they don't have grape pop" and I promised to buy her tiny burgers if we went here. Â I won the fast food battle.
This White Castle has 3 places you can enter, and of course as we pulled in people were SPEEDING to get there before us from two different directions! Â Really people, this is not necessary. Â Also, doing shit like this and taking forever to order will cause you to piss off everyone behind you, like my friend. Â The last thing I want to do in the early morning is get into a fight at a damn White Castle, but that is almost inevitable here as people are crazy. Â My friend included. Â So, as a word of caution, be prepared for people to try and cut you off even when you don't think it's possible. Â Oh, there's a curb in the way? Â They don't care.
On the other hand, the employees are actually really nice.
Those cravings they talk about? Â They truly exist.
Not much to comment on this review... It's White Castle. Order your case of jalepeno cheese sliders & head straight back to your car. Eat one or two before you meet up with your homeboys for the After-The-Club munching session.
GOOD TIMES
I have longed to try a White Castle burger. I lived in Florida and Krystal's was a mainstay. But like homospaiens and neanderthals these burger share some obvious
links but have evolved to be decidedly different. Both are about the same size, both come in box apparel, but Krystal burgers are slathered in yellow mustard, and White Castle seem only moistened by a thin beefy gravy. I am afraid after 20 years of being  a Krystal fan, I have changed my mini burger allegiance to White Castle.
I was walking up Elston tonight, heading home from a craft beer tasting at Chief O'Neill's, and reaching Kedzie, I spotted White Castle. Â I've been going here forever, though infrequently, with months and even years between visits. Â My impression is that this location is now being run better than I've ever seen it before, over the decades.
I ordered a #1 meal: 4 sliders no cheese, upgraded the fries to onion rings and received a tall cup for self serve pop. Â The food was pretty much as expected and maybe a little less: my anticipation for White Castle always greatly exceeds the actual taste of the food. Â The hamburgers were nicely blazingly hot little square quarter inch thick patties with holes for quick cooking, with distinctive tasting grilled onions (no other condiments besides pickle slices) on slightly pasty little steamed buns. Â The onion rings were hot but not enough strong onion flavor for me--the onions sometimes stretched out of the breading when I bit into them, leaving nothing but bland crumbly tubes of breading in my hand. Â The pop flavors in the self serve drink tower were all Coca-Cola and Fanta flavors, which was fine with me.
Total cost of my meal was just a shade over five bucks.
High marks for service and cleanliness. Â The tables--the whole dining room in fact--was spotlessly clean, unusual for most fast food joints. Â The order taker (Sierra) was friendly and the manager who handed me my tray of food wished me well, while thanking me for my business. Â Nice!
Being from the west coast coming out to chicago I had to get myself some white castle to see what he hype was all about, and the verdict is... underwhelming.
I dont know why people like it so much. Â its not that flavorful, the meat dosn't even look like real meat.
Maybe I'm spoiled by real burger joints like In-N-out, but at 11pm, i saw some a few parties come in and be mad grubbing like it was their last meal on earth with white castle, so I'm sure some people dig it, but definitely not for me.
Not a fan! This was my first visit to White Castle and I wasn't impressed. My friends and I stopped by to try it out while on vacation in Chicago. Honestly the burgers taste like something frozen that I threw in the microwave. The buns are soggy and the burgers are far from fresh. They actually have a bunch just sitting there ready to serve. I guess you can't expect too much for a cheap burger. However, coming from LA I'd prefer paying extra money to get an IN-N-Out burger.
At least I can say I tried these famous burgers.
I should be ashamed of myself for eating White Castle before going to breakfast. Should be, but I'm not. White Castle is a staple here in Chicago and on my Chicago Bucket List, White Castle is usually one of the top 5. All you haters out there can keep hating. Where else can I eat 6 different types of burgers without feeling guilty?
I used to eat little sliders when I was a little kid with tight braces and a sadist of an orthodontist. That and mashed potatoes were the only food I could get past my poor throbbing teeth and thus a childhood bond was formed.
Here's my usual order that satisfies what I crave:
1. jalapeno cheeseburger
2. chicken cheeseburger
3. fish and cheese burger
4. double cheeseburger
5. burger with extra onions
6 burger with extra pickles
AND...AND...Grape Fanta. Back in the day, it was Nehi, but I'm going to guess Nehi went out of business. Ah, happy times and juicy burgers are what fills my mind, my car and my stomach as I sit through morning rush hour traffic from the Loop to the airport. It's a perfect snack food for the car and for the impromptu trip to the vet with a whiney dog as well. :-) Cheers!
What I Crave about twice a year!
I'm fortunate not to journey to crazy parts of the city to enjoy my White Castle. Usually I go after watching movies until late night or reading books until the early morning.
The service at this location SUCKS but I guess if I work there I would be in a pissy mood after smelling like onions all day.
Do not slur your speech when you order here, and also speak up, or you will be checked by the lady who works there.
Luckily, they do a good good without screwing up your order there (I order some complicated shit sometimes)
Big parking lot but would not recommend you hanging out there to make friends.
Remember order your food with confidence, and don't that it personal if they snap at you.
Now I want White Castle................
I love sliders--but to be honest, I basically came to White Castle, just to say that I went there. Â And I'm glad I did! Â
The sliders are yummy and CHEAP. Â I ordered 6 and it was less than $6. Â I tried the original, bacon and jalapeno. Â Out of the three, my favorite is the jalapeno, which is basically the original with jalapeno cheese. Â The bacon is good, too. Â The crispiness of the bacon goes well with the sogginess (in a good way) of the buns.
I'm not sure if it's just this location or if I came at a weird time...but it seems so lonely! Â There were absolutely no cars in the parking lot and no customers inside (I actually thought it was closed).
Overall, this good, cheap and quick fast food. Â Perfect for late night (or any time of the day) munchies.
Being from California, I've waited for the day when I can finally try White Castle. Â Driving around our first day in Chicago, I just happened to see a White Castle. Â I knew it was an East Coast thing, but it didn't occur to me that I would find one in Chicago. Â I was ecstatic.
Since we already had dinner, my husband and I decided to get a few sliders as a late night snack with our daughter, just to try them. Â We got a 4-pc meal with 2 regular sliders, 2 cheeseburgers and fries. Â We added an order of chicken rings (what the heck, right). Â
The chicken rings were pretty good, but not as good as McDonald's. Â The sliders were juicy and tasty. Â Although I did like regular sliders better than the cheeseburgers.
If I had a choice between White Castle or McDonalds, I would go to White Castle for sure for the sliders...(and to McDonald's for the chicken nuggets).
I wish White Castle would open up in San Francisco.
So Harold and Kumar made these little burgers famous. Â My only experience with these yummy delights was at the grocery store in the frozen section. Â It was good but I had to try the real ones for myself.
White Castle is up there with In N Out as far as hype. Â In N Out lived up to the hype, white castle was eh...
But I must say they make for some awesome drunk food. Â I had the cabbie roll through the drive through.
It hit the freaking spot. Â You gotta get the cheesy fries, tasted like a baked potato on fries.
Hold the pickles and add cheese, if you're down south check out Krystal burger, basically the same thing.
Disgusting sticky floor. DISGUSTING. If we weren't drunk from coming from a bar at 3 in the morning with a craving for your devil meat (ahem) we'd never have gone here!
The burgers are small and it's either you hate it or love it flavor. Fries are tasty. I love it. Grew up having some every summer when I visited Chicago from Canada so it's a taste of my childhood. Admittedly I'm biased. Still tastes appealing to me up to now. But this branch was guh-ross.
WHAT U CRAVE!
lol yes why not review whitecastle.
how you've saved me from MANY Mistakes of sneaking out of someones apartment....breaking dawn at BERLIN, and feeling like I was on a sail boat in the atlantic ocean.....
I'm a classic gal, and always goes with the slider....(eheheh) Fortunately.
sliders do not upset my stomach really bad....
Hold the pickles add cheese.
My only gripe?
the long wait in the drive thru.
You save my life white castle.
Came to my first experience of White Castle....I was so stoked after gettin off the airport that I had to try it....
Cute lil burgers.....good fries....and overall a good experience....not sure why they were nicknamed "sliders" ha but overall I would go there again.....try more of their specials...
Thanks for makin my first experience a pleasant one!
Can't hit Chicago without at least trying the infamous White Castle. I had no idea that White Castle is the oldest standing Fast Food Chain in America. That's what happens when you reside on the Westside. You become oblivious to other parts of the country. haha. How sad.
Took a taxi and picked up a 4 pack meal to share with the wife. Mistake. Should have gotten a couple more. Those 2 burgers went quick.
Something about the way they cook the meat and onions is special or something. Grilled onions are grilled onions so that's what I smell the entire time. A small pickle and you have a perfect sized 3-4 bite burger with the small grilled onions flying all over the place. Good stuff. A friend had a shake and it was good and thick as hell. They need to offer spoons or something because they didn't have any available. Only forks. Weird.
I won't rate the service because it's a fast food joint and good service is usually just gravy at most places. The service was 2 stars when i went. Cleanliness was 1 star. Bathrooms were ugh. But the experience of it all and the taste of a $.60 burger after a long indulgent night of food/wine gives it 4 stars. You really have to count the longevity of the business plus the simplicity of it all to really give it a fair chance. If you compare lb-for-lb to a gourmet gastro pub type burger then this will not be your cup of tea. If you keep an open mind, I think you will enjoy.
This is gonna be one of my favorite reviews EVER!
So yeah, I'm from Hawaii and I watched the movie Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. We carry White Castle Cheeseburgers at our local grocery stores but they're not the same.... no, no, no. They're not the same at all.
Anyways I went to Chicago for a wedding about 2 years ago and stayed with my cousins. The wedding was gonna be a dry wedding so my cousin Anthony tells me:
"I'm gonna get you wasted every night that you're gonna be happy Chris's wedding is a dry wedding."
Sure enough, it was 5 days before the wedding and EVERY night i got super wasted and ended up eating at White Castle mostly every night.
What I can honestly say though is that the White Castle cheeseburgers are sooooo damn freaking good and what's so funny about White Castle is what my cousins told me.
Anthony: "The weird thing about White Castle is that when you burp, it smells and tastes like White Castle but what even way more crazy is that when you fart.... yupp... you guessed it. It smells like White Castle Cheeseburgers."
Soooo with that being said... Here's a little story for ya'll
Scenario: Me, My cousin Anthony and his girlfriend Trisha are riding in the car. i have a little grin on my face...
Anthony: Ey... do you guys smell White Castle?
Trisha: Hey.... yeah I smell White Castle too...
(Small Pause)
Anthony: AWWW MAN THAT'S FKN GROSS! Dude.... SEE I TOLD YOU!
Trisha: (Covering her nose and laughing in the back of the car.)
Me: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...... GAHAHAHA.
END.
So yeah.... if you ever have the chance to eat White Castle, you should totally do so! Maybe then you'll be a believer haha!
There are two rules to follow when you go to White Castle.
1. Don't go to White Castle during daylight hours.
2. Either be really hungry or really drunk
I'm not sure what kind of meat the burgers are made of. Supposedly it's beef. But it's hard to tell because during the steam grilling process they kind of lose the physical properties of ground beef and turn into a holey square of awesome inside a tiny bun.
And no, I didn't notice that they still smell the same coming out as they did going in. Shut up!
Um, no. Â No no no no no no no no no no no no no.
1. Â I had never been to a White Castle, and never had any desire.
2. Â My friend (looooong story) went on a company-sponsored trip last year, in which he and three colleagues rented an RV and travelled to each state with a White Castle. Â They ate White Castle almost every meal for four days.
He loves the joint but doesn't eat beef and was interested in trying the pulled pork sandwich. Â So when I couldn't think of any non-Mexican late-night places within striking distance of where we were (Avondale-ish), this became our destination. Â God forgive me for acquiescing.
Anyway, the "food" is terrible. Â Honestly, I can't believe that ANYbody likes this stuff. Â Some places are crappy quality and bad for you but still taste good and people love them. Â No harm done. Â But how anybody can enjoy this dreck is beyond me. Â Shame on you if you are one of them.
The "slider": Â BLECH. Â D-. Â This thing is slimy enough but then they roll it in a wrapper so that the steam can turn the bun into mush. Â Disgusting.
The onion rings: Â Hands down the worst that I have ever had. Â F.
The fries: Â Limp but okay. Â C-.
The barbecue pulled pork: Â Also okay. Â C-.
The fish sandwich: Â Utterly wretched. Â D-.
Chicken ring: Â The idea is astonishing but in any case it didn't taste half bad. Â C.
We wanted to end the meal with a chocolate shake but the machine was already being cleaned for the night, to the surprise of the cashier AND the manager. Â So not only does their food taste awful but they are incompetent. Â Heaven knows whether the shake would have brought my impression up or down.
Two stars instead of one because they aren't trying to be anything other than what they are. Â Which is, the shittiest fast food in America, a real trick when you think about it. Â I told my friend that this was the low point of my whole life; if I ever found myself doing a month stint in County, tossing salads in between beatings, this would still rank below that. Â "Shame, and eternal shame. Â Nothing but shame." Â (That's a quote from Shakespeare's Henry V. Â I'm trying to add a tiny touch of class to this debacle.)
Aw, yeah. Once every 5 years or so, I get The Crave®. Today, out looking for a new bathtub fauct, and feeling very Home Improvement, I had to stop for a couple sliders. And a Coke, which also I rarely drink.
My only regret? Not noticing they serve BACON CHEESEBURGERS now at the Castle Cafe. Ah well, they'll still be there in five years when I head to Castello Bianco again.
You may find yourself wondering why I, a vegetarian and a somewhat health freak, am giving White Castle five stars. Â
it's because of their employees. Â They are a notch tamer than the ghetto chicks at the Wiener Circle, but they're a lot nicer. Â My friend, who's a huge fan of their burgers and fries (which I find to be very gross), dragged me there one night when we were in high school. Â
After he ordered his mound of burgers, I mentioned that I grew up thinking that their burgers were made of rat meat. Â When I was a kid, my dad complained about how White Castle gave him the shits, and he said, "You'd think that they put rat meat in their goddamn burgers!" Â And I, a gullible kid, took it seriously.
So, a good five minutes later, my friend finally managed recompose himself from cracking up so hard. Â He got up and yelled at one of the employees, "Hey, do you put rat meat in your burgers?"
Every head in the room turned to him. Â I think an old lady gagged on her food. Â The employee didn't miss a beat and shot right back, "Well, we have to somehow get rid of all these rats we catch, don't we?"
We walked out with a box of onion rings on the house, leaving a room full of people eyeing their own burgers suspiciously.
When I moved here from California, I enjoyed the novelty of White Castle. Plus, it was taboo.
My mother believes that White Castle killed my dad. It's the last thing he ate before he had a heart attack.
I'm not kidding. He died in 1979 in New York, after a helping of slyders.
That being said, I'm drawn to the place and have mixed feelings.
On one hand, I've never had a burger so bland. On the other hand, a little mustard and hot sauce make slyders sing.
Plus, they're so tiny and cute!
Would I take White Castle over In-N-Out Burger? God no.
Am I glad White Castle is just down the street? Hell yes.
When my roommate first moved to Chicago from Texas she insisted we go to White Castle. Â
For the love of God, I felt like I needed to be doused in gasoline, lit on fire and bathed in acid to be fully cleansed of the narstiness that is the White Castle on Addison. Â I think they mop their floors with urine. Â Â Not to mention I was witness to a woman with a single dread. Â Usually that word is used in the plural, i.e. dreads, or dreadlocks, if you will. Â Not here. Â One big, giant, matted, pancake of a dread. Â Either that or it was the biggest wad of steel wool in the universe growing out of this woman's head, coming to rest at the middle of her back. Â
But back to the issue at hand...this place made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
I'm sorry, but there's NOTHING better than stopping off at White Castle at 4 a.m. after a night of drunken debauchery. Â Those onions and pickles and steamed bun..... MMMMMMMM! Â And not only is White Castle delicious, but it's a hangover cure as well. Â Eat a couple before falling asleep, and I guarantee that you will wake up in the morning feeling like a million bucks.
I have never been sick from White Castle, and I will never understand how it happens. Â Does the average person just have a weak constitution or what?
This particular location is okay, though I haven't yet decided if I prefer it to the one at Harlem and Belmont (which is the one I used to frequent until I recently moved). Â The fact that it's only a mile away from my apartment is definitely a plus, though one time I was stuck in the drive-thru here for almost an hour. Â (Still worth it, though.)
Hopefully I can convince my mom to make White Castle stuffing for Thanksgiving this year.
By chance, my co-workers and I ended up hanging out in Chicago longer because our flight out of O'Hare was delayed about four hours, so our friend Chris took us here. Funny, out of all the bougie-ass places we hit up over the course of a week, we never once thought to go to White Castle!
Well, it was pretty much what I expected - juicy burgers with onions on little rolls. Nothing spectacular, but it was good enough to temporarily suppress my appetite, and as my friends all know, I get hungry every 10 minutes or so. I ate 4 regular White Castles (the regular slider burgers), 2 cheeseburgers, and two orders of the 6 piece "chicken rings", which is pretty much what it sounds like, a ring-shaped chicken nugget. They offered two flavors, Tabasco and Hidden Valley Ranch, and since I only eat Tabasco in the morning (like on my eggs), I chose the ranch. it was good, almost obscenely seasoned to the point of saltiness, but it was good. My co-worker Ryan ate one of everything and concluded that the beef-based sandwiches (as in, things that weren't chicken sandwiches or whatever) were the best ones.
Washed down with five refills of Raspberry Iced Tea (I told you the chicken rings were salty), all in all, eating White Castle was definitely a good way to bid the Windy City goodbye.
I'll miss it! :(
White Castle is a lot like sex.
When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's horrible and you regret it the next morning. denying gregariously up and down you had anything related to it the night before while stiffing your tummy sickness and swearing to whatever god you hold dear you never make that same decision again... and yet somehow you know yer gonna.
It's White Castle, people. We're not talking Tavern on the Green. Not even the dumpster -behind- Tavern on the Green. Hell, the rats living under those dumpsters probably eat better than White Castle but I promise you this: Get dumped, get wasted stupid drunk, buy a sack full of their chicken sandwiches with cheese and some chicken rings on the side and drive down Addison past Lane Tech, past Wrigley Field and even past LSD and sit on rocks along the lake, eating your precious fowl-on-a-bun and wait for the sunrise. By 7am the world will be a much better place.
Quick and tasty - that's White Castle for me.
Gotta disagree with Jeff L. - I did not grow up around White Castle; I only tried it for the first time a few months ago, but damn is it GOOD. Â No, the sliders are not large, but I've heard they use higher quality beef than most fast food places.
5 sliders, fries and a coke for $5? Â Win.
It also helps that this is a 2 minute drive from my apartment.
So I know that the Beastie Boys sing White Castle's praises in many of their songs (that's actually my first introduction to Slyder Nation), but EW!
We went here last night because the bf had a crave (lucky me!). Â I ordered cheese fries, onion rings, & a Coke (fountain).
1. Â Cheese fries = actually pretty good, to tell you the truth, however, they could have been less stingy with the cheese.
2. Â Onion rings = onion is so hard & bulbous that I don't think I actually even ate a full onion ring middle ... just the crunchy, highly healthy breaded outside. Â Instead, I got what looked like a large tapeworm flapping against my chin on every bite. Â Gross.
3. Â Fountain Coke = delicious, but then again, I *was* washing down White Castle.
The lady behind the counter (with plenty of "flair" on her hat) was pleasant enough, but after taking our order, she came out to the eating area & proceeded to holler back & forth into the kitchen are, which was ... weird.
Whomever said this White Castle was "clean" *must* have been being facetious. Â Not one table was without drips, crusted on food, &/or smeared ketchup. Â COOTIES ABOUND!!!
I have a funny picture of a sign there that made me bellow with laughter ... "A Balanced Meal for Growing Bodies ... White Castle." Â I uploaded it for all to see here. Â Enjoy!
& ... contrary to Mike D, MCA, & AdRock, White Castle fries do *NOT* only come in one size....
Ed. Note: Â I stand corrected. Â At the time of the claim about the size of the fries, they did, indeed, come in only one size. Â This claim does not hold true today, though. Â Do with that information what you will.
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