Zinburger

On the day before my birthday, Hazel and I headed to Zinburger at Biltmore Fashion Park for lunch. We have had various results with other Fox Restaurant Concepts. Olive & Ivy has great food, but abhorrently slow service. True Food’s eats were tasty, but portion sizes were too small. So we went in hoping for the best, lured by the promise of tasty burgers and some unique milkshake flavors.

The restaurant is decorated in a very Fox-esque chic decor with natural wood floors and a full wall mural depicting green grass, blue sky, and four Holstein cows. I guess nobody told the designers that quality burgers don’t come from Holsteins.

Regardless, I ordered the Samburger–a bacon cheese burger with Thousand Island Dressing–and a Creme Brûlée shake. Hazel went with Clint’s “Almost Famous” Vegetable Burger. We were disappointed to find the burgers did not come with fries. They were a $5 add on.

The shake was pretty tasty. As for the burgers, Hazel found her veggie burger to be “mealy”. My burger was average. If I am going to pay more than $15 for burger and fries it better be spectacular. It didn’t come close to the bovine utopia that is The Diner Burger from San Francisco’s Fog City Diner. Yet the San Francisco price was included.

Will we return? Probably not. There are too many other places to go while were young.