April 30th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
April 30th, 2015 at 12:16 PM ^
Not one burger chain I've ever been to has been worth the hype.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^
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April 30th, 2015 at 12:31 PM ^
April 30th, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^
I've never had In 'N Out, but Five Guys is overpriced and overrated.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:24 PM ^
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April 30th, 2015 at 12:25 PM ^
In-and-Out > Burger TX >> Five Guys
Burger TX only drops because all of the Blue Bell has been recalled.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^
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April 30th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^
both. One of the perks of being on the West Coast.
For those who negged the OP...
NO EITHER ONE FOR YOU!
April 30th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^
Five Guys is garbage. Smash Burger with a bullet.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:30 PM ^
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April 30th, 2015 at 12:30 PM ^
April 30th, 2015 at 12:33 PM ^
Portillos in Chicago beats them both by a mile.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
No self-respecting Chicagoan with taste buds would touch that garbage.
However, people who live in Schaumburg or Naperville and pretend to be Chicagoans love it; they just don't know any better.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
There's one there and there's one in Oak Park. I have been to Chicago probably a hundred times and Portillos is always my first stop. The italian beef is amazing. All of the Chicagoans I know really love it. BTW both of my good friends live about a mile from Rush, so they are "real" Chicagoans according to you. The other friend that I visit a lot lives on Lake Shore Drive in Evanstan, so he's *GASP* not a real Chicagoan.
To each their own though there angry guy.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
(Oak Park is not Chicago)
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There are Portillo's in Park Ridge and Skokie, as well. They have excellent chocolate cake and a pretty good chopped salad. As for the Italian beef, I got Italian beef for an event once. Portillo's gives you the meat and the broth separately, so I had a 64 oz. container of just the broth that smelled so good, I was thinking about sipping it right out of the tub.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
I always get In n Out whenever I am on the west coast, the animal style double-double is very good, but I prefer Five Guys because their burgers are customizable with 239272347 toppings and the fries aren't even a comparison. Cajun-Style fo' life!
April 30th, 2015 at 12:37 PM ^
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April 30th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
Shake Shack
April 30th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
If you are ever in Birmingham, Alabama, find yourself a Hamburger Heaven and get a Peanut Butter shake to go with your burger.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
April 30th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
We have both within about a mile of each other where I live and I don't think it's a very close contest. I like In-N-Out, but 5 Guys blows them away IMO.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
Five Guys is better. In-N-Out is more hyped because it is more niche. Everyone East of Colordao has this hamburgerection for In-N-Out and it's good, but it's not amazing.
Living in Colorado and having eating both, I can say generally 5 guys sucks and In-N-Out is generally better.
There are outliers though. The In-N-Out next to the 101 in Santa Maria is horrible. I ate once there, it sucked; fries were a mess and the burger had no flavor. I went back another time a couple of years later -- same thing. I was in San Jose in March and the In-N-Out next to the new MLS stadium was awesome -- fries were perfect, burger melted in mouth.
I love burger joints. The perfect meal is a burger, fries and a shake maybe once a week. No shakes at Five Guys but so many more options for my burger and Cajun fries mmm. In-N-Out is so much simple deliciocity! I love it!
Eff you guy! I can't choose!
Edit: IN-N-OUT! I CHOOSE THEE!
April 30th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
They shouldn't be compared. Five guys is more expensive, has more options and is slow. In-N-Out is cheaper, has less options, is faster and has a drive through. I know people who have have eaten In-N-Out hundreds of times and probably haven't set foot in one. In-N-Out should be compared to McDonald's and Five Guys to places like Fat Burger.
Also, anyone complaining about In-N-Out fries being too soggy need to order them light-well or well done and Animal Style burgers are overrated. The perfect order is a 2x1 (2 meats, one cheese), not a double-double (too cheesy), with extra spread and onion (grilled or raw) with fries light-well done with ketchup or Animal Style once in a while.
You lost me with "In-N-Out should be compared to McDonald's". No. Not at all, good sir. I understand the comparison, but it is way off considering the significant differences between the two.
If you are talking about price point, speed and convenience then In-N-Out should be compared to McDonald's and Burger King, not more expensive places without drive throughs (5 guys, Fatburger, etc.).
Huh?
McDonalds is frozen beef full of red slime and who knows what. In-N-Out has fresh meat. McDonalds fries are engineered. In-N-Out fries are the whole potato cut right before frying.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
Northwest chain. Dumb name but best fast food ever.
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And that will be last. The burger had almost no flavor. (Not to mention the stores look like bathrooms.)
In N Out is much better, though not the best burger out there.
Elevation burger blows them both out. Great ingredients too, mostly fresh.
I ate at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park a decade or so ago, but never tried it after it took off and became this amazingly successful chain. I passed by the Times Square location many times but always told myself it's not worth waiting in a line that goes around the block for a hamburger. Then one opened in a new mall on Long Island, and after inevitably being dragged kicking and screaming to that mall by my girlfriend, we tried Shake Shack. the line only went from the register to the front door. Fantastic, especially that burger with the fried portabello on top. But it's still not worth waiting in a line that goes around the block. That's just nuts.
If you live in Chicago and want a burger, go to Au Cheval. It's the best burger I've ever had in my life. It is perfect.
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This isn't even close, IMO. They are both good and both overrated (because there are groups of people who will insist that either is nothing short of mind-blowning, life-changing ambrosia--and while good, or maybe even very good, they aren't that). I think a lot of people who arrive in California have an expectations problem when it comes to In-n-Out. It isn't all it's cracked up to be. But you know what it is? Superior to Five Guys.
Living in Ann Arbor now, I'll take Elevation Burger over Five Guys any day of the week, every time, no question.
I would choose In-n-Out, but it is a shadow of what it originally was.
Story I heard when InOut was still local to L.A..SoCal region, the founding Father of the family refused to expand beyond a footprint that could be suppported by his direct, and in many cases exclusive, suppliers for every ingredient/component of his menu because he would never sacrifice quality. This lasted until hhis death when they had 18 locations. His first son took over and expanded to 76 locations and then the second took them to 140 by 1993, but once he died, the family kept expanding to their now 300+ locations and while they mostly adhere to the same standards of freshness and cleanliness, I don't believe they still have the same quality control/direct suppliers for every ingredient and there is defintely a huge difference in the quallity even between branches. If you were lucky enough to try them for the first time in the 70's or even early 90's, they were all great. These days if you get one at the branch in San Francisco in the Wharf/tourist area...they are not nearly as good as they are churning out a massive amount of food and the place is a mess....if you go to the one in Daly Cit y just outside of SF, they are sublime, though still not what they once were.
5 Guys - while I defiintely like their burgers and would put them on a par with the current InOut one, sort of "separate but equal", I don't prefer their style of fries and.....no shakes...really?
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Five Guys is to In-N-Out as East Lansing is to Ann Arbor.
I was going to comment... but said fuck it as it just would have got lost in the noise floor... and then I saw this comment -- BRILLIANT! Cannot say it any better!
The first few times I went to In-N-Out, this African married lady who was trying to jump my bones introduced me. She said she never eats any other burger and fries. EVAH! I wasn't super impressed the first time, but it takes a few visits to realize how and what to order for your own personal preference. The fries were weird at first because they tasted like potatoes. Actual potatoes like my mom used to make and it took a few visits to adjust to the freshness because very few burger places offer it. It took until my 3rd or 4th visit for me to fall in love with the joint. MmMMMMMmmm!
Double Double (sometimes triple if I'm really a fatty), mustard grilled patty, well-toasted bun, whole sliced grilled onion, light lettuce, fries, water, chocolate shake. BOOM!