Restaurant Review: Shake Shack

Shake Shack is one of New York's most popular burger chains, which I've been dying to try out since we visited last March.  Now that we only live a block away from one (dangerous), we decided to check it out on Friday.  We've got a few really delicious burger joints in San Diego, most notably Burger Lounge, so we were curious to see how Shake Shack would measure up.  We ordered a cheeseburger, Shake Burger, portobello mushroom burger, french fries, chocolate shake and two beers.  And yes, in case you're wondering, it was just Jeff and I at dinner.  I tried the Shake Burger, while Jeff sampled the portobello mushroom burger and cheeseburger.  My Shake Burger was pretty good and my favorite part was the bun, which was a touch sweeter than the buns I'm used to at Burger Lounge.  Jeff's portobello burger was . . . interesting.  It was certainly not the "healthy" vegetarian burger alternative we thought we were getting.  It was basically a deep fried portobello mushroom stuffed with cheese.  Yummy.  The crinkle-cut fries were fun and the chocolate shake met my #1 criteria for chocolate shakes: it was actually made with chocolate ice cream, not vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup.  All-in-all, we thought the burgers were good but a touch overrated, and no match for Burger Lounge.

The Shake Shack sampler platter

Taste test