There are now 287 gourmet burger restaurants in Toronto. Personally, I draw the line at 250. I cannot fathom how many $15 hamburgers the business owners in this city plan to sell. Yes, there is a high dependency on meat (especially of the miscellaneous ground assortment....mmm, mashed up cow ears) in North America and the Toronto intelligentsia can only eat organic mashed up ears, lips, and intestines, but come on. Soon enough the sloppily constructed, miscellaneous ingredients laden $5 hamburger will be extinct.
As of this very precise moment, Toronto has the following gourmet burger joints: Lick's, Hero Burger, Gourmet Burger Company, Groucho's, South Street Burger Company, Craft Burger, Apache Burger, and Burger Shoppe (serving ye olde $15 hamburgers, using ye olde local organic practices). At least five of the aforementioned restaurants have multiple locations. I just want a greasy hamburger, made from terrifying ingredients that I will never learn of, made by a mysterious, mild-mannered, steel spatula wielding person dressed in white. Stop the madness!
