texas hamburger company

love that texashamburgercompany.... i have been going to the texashamburgercompany for years. i love there burger. they are simply good ol' fashion burgers. love the thick fries and the creamy milk shakes. when i moved to lubbock it was the one restaurant i wish i could have taken with us. the staff was always plight and fun. i don't remember poppy seed buns there i know they where at chester's, but that is another story.

poppy, say it ain't so!. returned to thc to get one of their juicy hamburgers on a poppy seed bun. no more poppy seed buns! what . . . . ?! i was devastated! i couldn't imagine what had possessed management to make this change. "it wasn't broke, . . . ".

tried to keep an open mind as i took a big bite of my bacon cheese burger. not only did it not look the same, it didn't taste the same. in addition, the patty was over-cooked and thin. tons of lettuce and a just barely past green slab or two of tomato with the usual pickles . . . again, just not the same and not as satisfying as they used to be.

never have tried anything else on the menu 'cause i always came here for the burger. guess i will have to try to find another place now that serves these great poppy seed buns, but when chester's quit doing it, i believe thc was the last place i knew of that did.


-----07 dec, 2012-----

the poppy is also a flower. been coming here since it opened and have never had a bad burger. that seems a little back handed so let me say that the burgers have always been good. regardless of how i order it, they always seem to get it right. one of very few places that still serve the burger on a poppy seed bun. i mean what's ahamburgerwithout a little opium (the poppy seed is used to make opium for those that did not know). so don't go eat a texashamburgerright before you take that drug test for a new employer (just kidding!)

the pile of fries that are served along with the burger is substantial. a not so ravenous couple might even split an order. besides the beef version, the turkey burger is also tasty with plenty of seasoning to overcome the bland nature inherent in a ground fowl burger.

not too shabby. texashamburgercompany reminds me a lot of chester's hamburgers because the meat is thin and smashed on a flat top and the fries are made of fresh cut potatoes with skins but they are flaccid and limp - not crispy at all. the atmosphere has the feel of dining in a two story house. i usually prefer a thick burger more like fuddrucker's which is just up the street so i usually go there, but a thin burger is a nice change once in a while. if you prefer thin burgers, give this place a try.

great burgers, good prices -- work on those fries!. the texashamburgercompany is by far the besthamburgerpurveyor in san antonio. by far. even though their patties are cooked on the flat top like most other burger establishments, the way they cook them is so unbelievably flavorful. and all their burgers, from the bacon cheeseburgers to their swiss mushroom burgers, are incomparable to other burger places'. their fries need working on (perhaps consulting with casino el camino in austin [who make the best fries ever] is in order?), but you can taste that they're made from fresh potatoes instead of from a frozen, premade batch.

so much is made of chris madrid's and i find their burgers wanting, lifeless, and bland. texashamburgercompany knocks chris madrid's out of the water with their outstanding burgers and does so in a much more comfortable, aesthetically pleasing environment. you don't have to shoo away an army of flies while eating here, nor do you have to be stuck in the sweltering humidity in the middle of summer like you would at chris madrid's. if i could change one thing about the texashamburgercompany, it'd be that they be open on sundays! the texashamburgercompany would be absolutely perfect to go to after sunday worship services!

oh yeah, and work on getting those fries crispier!