after a solid week of seeing it all over our feeds, we had to go for ourselves. Naturally, we tried to get a little bit of everything. We started with Le Party Burger, because we are always down for a good time. It was very good—a well-executed smash burger with all the crispy-edged, juicy goodness you’d expect. The only thing is… it’s not exactly reinventing the smash burger. We’ve had this style before, and honestly it’s almost identical to several others we’ve tried. Still delicious though. On the sides front: the poutine was decent, despite being made with crinkle fries. (-1 for the wrong fries) The onion rings were enormous and pretty great. We had to have a strawberry milkshake with all this. It was basically liquid strawberry ice cream. Not a bad thing at all—we loved it—but it was so thick we nearly pulled a jaw muscle trying to get it through the straw. So, the burgers themselves are good. Very good, even. But in a city already swimming in smash burgers, they don’t quite rise above the crowd. However. They do have one thing that absolutely makes this place worth the trip: the Banana Pudding. Holy crap. That stuff is incredible. Made fresh right there and topped with a delicious crumble. Creamy, sweet, and dangerously easy to consume. I would eat that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner without hesitation. In fact, we’d go back just for that. Burgers: solid. Sides: respectable. Banana pudding: life-changing.
