A couple weeks ago Culver's opened in the Grove. Nick has never eaten at one. Saturday I remedied that. I took him to eat there and told him he could have anything he wanted. We agreed on each getting a burger combo thing. I got the butter burger with cheese. Nick got the Culver's Deluxe. It was difficult to choose as they have a huge menu. Not just lots of choices, but the menu board is ginormous! We also decided to try the chili cheese fries and the cheese curds. (Might as well go all out.) I was very excited to see the have diet dew in the fountain.
Our food arrived in what seemed like a reasonable time for how busy they were. Although the fries were regular fries. We mentioned this to the 12 year old buy that was serving us. He shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the receipt and said, "it says fries." I was like, but I ordered chili cheese fries. Blank stare. Nick asked if we could the chili cheese fries. 12 year old scurried of to find out. He returned promptly to say we could. We could even keep the regular fries. Several moments later we had chili cheese fries.
Appropriately armed with deep fried goodness we dug in. It has been quite some time since I have eaten a butter burger. It was good. The chili cheese fries were ok, but the chili tasted like it came from a can and just wasn't that good. The fries are pretty good though. Crinkle fries are vastly underrated in my opinion. The Cheese Curds were not quite like Fair curds, but they were very good.
After the fried food assault, we went back for the custard. We got a concrete mixer each. I of course went for the chocolate with Twix and marshmallow. It was very good. Nick got the vanilla with cookie dough and marshmallow. Tasty, but not enough chocolate for me.
Now that we have eaten there, we can reasonably enter the debate....will Culver's put DQ out of business?
DQ is closed nov-march, Culver's is open year round (and new). DQ is a bit harder to get to and navigate around, though both of them require prior knowledge of how to get there. The Custard is far superior to DQ's Soft serve (at least I think so.) Culver's is across the street from DQ. Our DQ is the walk up kind and has very limited food offerings - only hot dogs, where Culver's has the ginormous menu with everything from burgers to chicken diners. DQ does have the walk up window factor where large groups can easily sit around outside waiting for their after baseball treat in the summer.
There may be a place for both fine establishments, but can the Grove support them both?? Time will tell.
2 comments:
I prefer crinkle fries. I think the skinny ones are some sort of Nazi conspiracy.
the cheese curds are good for me in a pinch, but they always make me want the real kind at the fair. also, Valpo has 2 DQs and a Culvers and all do fine as far as I can tell.
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