salt city burgers

Friday night was once again Date Night, as I refused to cook.  After we drove around suburban southern Sandy for what seemed like HOURS, trying to find the REI - which, we knew where it was supposed to be but since it was on a mall perimeter road, we couldn't see it from any of the main streets; and then once we could see it, we couldn't actually figured out how to get to it, but we did, finally - we decided to just stay south and find some place that wasn't a chain to eat.  Since we'd just been to Fratelli Ristorante last weekend, pretty much the only thing that was left was Salt City Burgers.  They don't serve beer but it was closing in on 9:00 p.m. at this point and I was getting desperate.

I'll give Salt City Burgers an "it was okay, and certainly better than fast-food burgers (except maybe Crown Burgers) but I'm not sure how soon we'll go back."  The food was pretty good: the burgers themselves good-sized and juicy.  They're served on just their buns with whatever cheese you've selected, and if you get a bacon burger, the bacon is chopped up and mixed in with the ground beef, which is a nice touch.  There's a condiment bar which, while not that inventive, certainly had a lot of pickles and you could have your burger your way however that way might be.  It would have been nice if our server had mentioned the condiment bar, however - we only figured it out from watching other diners.  If you go, I would suggest splitting the sides.  H ordered fries and I ordered onion rings (quite good), and we certainly didn't need both, the orders were so big (something else the server might have mentioned).

As I said, there's no beer at SCB, but they do have ice cream, serving a selection of milkshakes, malts, floats, ice cream sodas and sundaes.  We didn't get any (the shakes are kind of spendy at $4.99) but that's something I might consider going out for as a treat some time.  They sure looked good.

And the lack of beer with dinner worked out just fine - plenty of cold PBR ($0.50/can) in the fridge when we got home.