{"id":7285,"date":"2013-01-08T20:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2013-01-09T02:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T02:23:45","slug":"fort-lauderdale-burger-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale Burger Report!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The BCS Championship game has us in town almost a week, so there was time to run down some burgers int he off hours! \u00a0 There were plenty to try, the local favorite Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill, Jack’s Hamburgers, Five Guys, Cheeburger Cheeburger, and many more of the usual suspects. \u00a0A new chain that is getting a lot of buzz was also around, Smashburger.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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My first stop was the highly rated, (by locals) Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0This is a family owned burger place that claims they make abetter burger because of using natural gas for their grill! \u00a0It’s a flame guys and you know my stand on burgers cooked over flame. \u00a0Not a fan! \u00a0Truthfully for a burger grilled over a fire it was not too bad, seasoned well, and cooked good and medium, so it was juicy. \u00a0They are also generous thick patties, but that flame broiled taste, I just couldn’t get past it. \u00a0So Gilbert’s burger gets a 3.5 pickles<\/span><\/strong> score, which isn’t good enough to break into our top 25 list. \u00a0 The next place I checked out was Jack’s Burgers<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0This is a conventional flat top grill burger and was actually very good. \u00a0The burgers was little on the thin side but well seasoned and well prepared, Jack’s got a 4.0<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0which is a very good score, pushing it’s way toward the top twenty five! I didn’t check out Five Guys<\/span><\/strong>, I’ve had plenty and they are always a solid 4.2 or better<\/strong><\/span>! \u00a0I also skipped on Cheeburger, Cheeburger,<\/span><\/strong> one of my favorite chains years ago, but wildly inconsistent in recent visit! \u00a0The new kid ont he block is Smash burger (lead image at the top!) \u00a0I actually first heard of Smashburger<\/span><\/strong> a couple of weeks ago from Mike Moats<\/span><\/strong> the great close-up shooter. \u00a0He wanted to know if I had tried one and I told him I had not but would on the first opportunity. \u00a0Well, once again I have something to thank Mike for!!! \u00a0The burger at Smashburger<\/span><\/strong> was fantastic, a solid 4.5<\/strong><\/span>, placing it well up in the pack of great American burgers! \u00a0So it was a lot better week for Alabama fans and cheeseburger lovers than Notre Dame fans!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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The BCS Championship game has us in town almost a week, so there was time to run down some burgers int he off hours! \u00a0 There were plenty to try, the local favorite Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill, Jack’s Hamburgers, Five Guys, Cheeburger Cheeburger, and many more of the usual suspects. \u00a0A new chain that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}