Macaroni Burger??

We invited a couple to go out to dinner with us a while ago and they requested that I take them to a burger joint. I was honored that they regarded my opinion enough to think that my burger snobbery would lead them to a great experience. Also, I was honored that they actually read my blog especially after I offended them with my very controversial stance on pickles. Yes, I have friends who love pickles in their food and chances are that someone you know and love are pickle lovers as well. Tolerance.

I had three burger places in mind that have continually been brought up by friends of ours. I knew very little about them except that they were all bars that supposedly made great burgers. I offered all three options to Ryan and Emilee and immediately had all three choices shut down by said friends. Emilee claimed she was what doctors call 'pregnant' and didn't want to be around second hand smoke bla bla bla. Like cigarettes ever killed anyone. We then resorted to perusing yelp.com for well rated restaurants and decided on Rich's Burgers and Grub which is a little place in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City and one of the few burger places I had never heard of. 

If this place is anything it is creative. They make a macaroni and cheese burger. . . Need I say more? Creativity is great and all but it is also dangerous as hell. Creativity can go from a delicious garlic burgers to a vile Hawaiian pineapple burgers before you can say "no pickles". Both are creative, however, one is a delight the other an atrocity. Needless to say I was timid around all this creativity. We all ordered something different; Emilee got the artichoke heart burger, Ryan the bleu cheese, Whitney the macaroni and cheese, and me the simple bacon cheeseburger. 

As you can tell Rich's Burgers and Grub has a vast and diverse menu. My friends are great and offered me a bite from each of their burgers which was more than I would have asked for. Each burger was different and each was delicious. All that creativity was done wisely and paid off. If I had to rank them from most delicious to least I would rank them from the creamy and smooth macaroni and cheese burger to the simple but great bacon cheeseburger to the powerful bleu cheese burger to the tangy artichoke heart burger. But again, all of them were very good. AND all of them are served with the pickles on the side, now that's just plain courteous. Their fries looked amazing and sounded good on paper, what with all the spices and Parmesan cheese, but in the end they were just ok. Sometimes less is more, and I think in this case it is true with their fries. Their fried green beans were very good, however.

 All in all, for just finding this place without ever having it suggested it was a very good experience. They are a bit pricey, but I have learned from doing this blog that you usually get what you pay for. Usually. Highly recommend Rich's to anyone and I hope to go back soon to try some of their other menu options.