White Castle

Yes, this is your general purpose, new breed of Region WC.  The one it replaced, further up Calumet Avenue, was torn down in the '70s and while once dining there I had the pleasure of being solicited by a gentleman seeking to sell some watches.  The Hammond Police Dep't was within walking distance and, this being before cell phones were invented, we took an after dinner stroll over to it to report the suspicious activity.  The police arrived and arrested the guy - and the present WC was built at its present location shortly thereafter.

You probably have to be from the Midwest or coast to really appreciate these little burgers. I have loved them forever and not to mention the cheap prices burgers. Where else can you get 1000 burgers for $20. Ok,that may be a stretch but you catch my drift. Cheeseburgers make me smile especially from this place. Their chicken sandwiches have real chicken on them,not that fake patty crap sold at most place. I love the cheesesticks and pretty much everything here. Don't even get me started on how good the lemonade is. I miss going to w.castle w/my friends after after school events sometimes even during school hours:) Since moving to SD I miss those little burgers/chicken on a bun, I love you Mr Castle.

White Castle is a franchise Chicagoans and people from Indiana know and either love or hate. If you have any aversion to onions, any at all, then the place probably totally repulses you (unless you can hang with the chicken offerings, which are good in and of themselves).

I cannot comment on the cleanliness inside of this one, as I only like to go to White Castle when it's uber-late, and as far as I know, this one now locks the doors at a certain hour due to the crappier elements of Hammond, who were fond of starting crap with personnel. However, their drive-thru service is quick and typically spot-on with order correctness and completion.

The food lives up to what you would expect standard White Castle fare to taste like; really, shouldn't you expect all fast food places in a chain to taste the same as their siblings? I'd be weirded out if one particular White Castle made the burgers so much better than another.

So as you can see, this White Castle does nothing to raise it above "average". If you like White Castle and you're in the area, it definitely hits the spot and will save you from going to Whiting or Schererville (or that other Hammond one by Speedway).