The best restaurant experience I’ve had in 2009 involves my favorite “fastfood joint”: In-N-Out Burger. You see, living in Tennessee for all of it’s positve benefits, includes one SERIOUS detraction. No In-N-Out Burger joints!! I’ll let that tragic news properly settle into your conscious! I’ll wait.
Are you as horrified by this news as I am?? Good. We’re ready to proceed.
As I mentioned yesterday, I flew back to CA in early August on personal business and to pick up my daughter for our return trip to TN. My tertiary goal was to satiate my hunger for the most exquisite burgers in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD as part of this trip.
So, to set the scene: I flew into the Ontario Airport in the early afternoon on a Friday and retrieved my rental car. I then proceeded to use the BrgrFndr app on my iPhone to locate the closest In-N-Out Burger joint to the airport and as luck would have it, there was an In-N-Out (store #34, opened in 1984) about a mile from the airport. So, I drove over, parked and ordered at the walk up window. I ordered something I had never ordered before: a Triple/Triple. What is a Triple/Triple you ask? Simple: three fresh all beef patties and three slices of American cheese.
Now, normally, I would order a Double/Double, but I felt that this being a somewhat special occasion, it called for a brave new order! Needless to say, I was not only pleasantly surprised by the burger, but it was the absolute BEST In-N-Out burger I’d ever had the good fortune to experience. Perhaps it was the fact that I was starving. Perhaps it was the fact that I was having serious INO withdrawls. But, I prefer to think that it was due to the perfect combination of three gloriously melted cheese slices, three excellently grilled fresh all beef patties, fresh tomato and leafy lettuce all nestled lovingly with special sauce on a freshly baked bun toasted just right.
I can honestly say, that sitting in the warm California sun with a perfect In-N-Out burger, fresh fries and a large coke was about the best “welcome to California” arrival I’ve had in a long time. It won’t be topped any time soon
