Say Earl’s Burger five times fast. For this edition, I checked out Earl’s. It was an accidental burgering, as I was meeting a good friend of mine and, more or less, we wanted something simple, yet mutually agreeable. Earl’s it is.
Tucked away in the menu is this “3 new gourmet burgers” leaflet. Call it serendipity! I’m going to let the burger speak for itself, courtesy of burgers.earls.ca:
“The Royale with Cheese $18
Our show stopper, with beer infused cheddar, smoky bacon, sweet roasted onions, Portobello mushrooms, Earls’ own ketchup, on a cheese encrusted freshly baked brioche bun.”
The picture on the website offers this woolly mammoth of a burger, draped in glorious trappings of vegetable, cheese, and additional meat. And, to its credit, dang, was it ever good.
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I did the handsy-dance, trying to figure out the best angle to scoop this beast into my gullet.
Was it perfect? No, and here were my qualms.
The ingredients were so tender, that the burger lacked that crunch-punch. First world problem, but this is a preference of mine.
When Al Stanfield (my dad, for those playing the home game) whips burgers on the grill, he tosses the buns on for a minute, too. Crunch-punch.
The brioche bun, the meat, the pickles, onions, and banana peppers, it was all either heated or treated to flow as a singular entity. I didn’t like that. I enjoy a bit more bang in my bite.
Also, with that delicious assortment of ingredients, the banana peppers seemed a little out of place. They’re a statement taste, like pineapple on a sub, and with so many different smoky tastes having a battle royale on my taste buds, the banana peppers were like Steve Carrell’s Brick Tamland waving a hand grenade.
Overall, it’s one heck of a great meal. I was stuffed just right afterward, and would do it again in a heartbeat – though next time, I might try one of the Royale’s cousins, the Rodeo Blue or The Forager. All of these sound like Brian Fantana’s colognes.
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