Cheeseburger Bonanza!!!!

I present to you the Village Inn cheeseburger. I had this burger while dining at the Village Inn on 36th and 370 in Bellevue, NE.

Overall Rating: C+

Pros: A slightly above average burger. It came with American cheese, tomato, lettuce, red onion, pickles and a pretty good kaiser bun. Good cheese spread/melt. Good size patty.

Cons: They did not ask me how I wanted the meat cooked. I tend to like mine with just a little pink, the one I got was definitely brown all the way through ( Although, there was no serious lack of juiciness ). Also they served it with the top already on the bottom (see picture), so the top was stuck to the melted cheese when I had to open it to put on the vegies! Why would they do this?

Footnote: This was your average cheeseburger, but the kaiser bun was a nice touch, so I thought that put it a little above average. I had it with the standard ketchup and mustard added. I liked the fries.

Cheeseburger Bonanza!!!!

Wow! We just started today and I already have a cheeseburger review!! Rest assured I am not that highly motivated. The truth is I had conceived this idea a month ago and I'm now just getting around to posting some reviews, so here is the first!
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I present to you the Lazlo's cheeseburger! Lazlo's Brewery and Grill is a restaurant in the Haymarket area of Lincoln, NE, and is also the home of Empyrean Ales.

Overall Rating: A-

Pros: This was a great burger. Nice and juicy, good quality meats, cheddar cheese with a nice melt/spread to it, grilled just like I like it, medium. It also came with a secret sauce which can best be described as a tangy, garlicky cream sauce (my best guess) which was quite tasty, but not overpowering. Lettuce, tomatoes and onion were included and the bun was slightly toasted on the insides. Woohoo!

Cons: The tomato slices I got were the end slices which don't tend to be as juicy as a nice middle slice, and I think they change the texture of the burger.

Footnote: Big 23 oz. Empyrean brews available to quench your palette between burger bites, and the fries were pretty damn good too!

Cheeseburger Bonanza!!!!

Out of boredom, and lack of any other good ideas to blog about, I have decided to rate cheeseburgers. I did a little research (i.e. Wikipedia) and found some background info on the cheeseburger. This is what I learned, "a cheeseburger is a hamburger accompanied with cheese". Now we know. The birth of the first cheeseburger is still debatable, however my sources (Wikipedia) claim the first may have been made in Pasadena, CA, by a sixteen year old kid, in 1924. This marvelous stroke of luck occurred when the boy, helping in his father's restaurant dropped a slice of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger. Viola! (There was also some information about the cheese making the nutritional value of the hamburger substantially worse, but it seemed like a downer on an otherwise upbeat blog post, so I decided not to mention it. Uh oh.)

Back to the meat (pun intended) of my post, I will be rating cheeseburgers from various locals, as well as posting pictures. I have no real plan or any specific restaurants preselected, so if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know. I intend to use the traditional grading scale of A+ to F-, and I will be trying to rate just the burgers themselves, but may be influenced by service and other factors (i.e. good fries) because I am only human, but I will do my best to remain true to the task.
So stay tuned for Cheeseburger Bonanza posts!