Here's the deal - the cheeseburger is the quintessential American food. A couple of years back, after reading a review in the Wall Street Journal about the best burgers in the country, only to find that three of the top five were in my own back yard, I decided that I needed to see for myself. With the help of George Motz's "Hamburger America", several lists, recommendations from friends and asking everyone about burgers from "their" town, this is the result...

If you're curious about my thoughts on foods other than burgers, check out my other blog Eat to Live? Or Live to Eat?

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Bionic Burger, Wichita, KS (September, 2011)

The fourth and final stop on the Kansas burger tour - Bionic Burger.  After the disappointment at Nuway, I was still hungry and we had plenty of time to kill before our flight.  So I hit the Hamburger America app on my phone and looked at burger joints added by fans.   Bionic Burger was there.

I couldn't figure out the name.   I was reading the front of the menu and it talked about one of the founders, Steve Majors.   And it all clicked.  Steve Austin was played by Lee Majors, the Six Million Dollar (Bionic) Man.

With thay mystery solved, I go ahead and order the #2, Double Cheeseburger combo.   It comes out and looks promising.
The burger was seared around the ages and executed very well.   The bun, however, was a dry, chewy white-bread mess.   The fries were very good - similar to Five Guys'.

But what really caught our attention there was the Funnel Fries.  Imagine funnel cakes, reinvented as french fries.   What a wonderful creation.
Jo had a peanut butter malt with it and said that the combination was indeed, in the six-million dollar range.

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