Now I get that campus (or slightly off-campus) food is never intended to be the last word in fine dining. Greasy food is what the students want. Cheap, great tasting and greasy are the criteria. Unfortunately Albie's Place in the URI emporium only lives up to one of these things: greasy.
Visiting one of my friends today at the Kingston Campus of URI, I was subjected to Albie's. Now I've been to Albie's before and I knew what I was getting into, so I only agreed when he agreed to pay for lunch. This is because the price/food ratio, hell the value/edibility ratio, of this place is just atrocious.
Now I'm a burger lover, plain and simple, and when I'm going to go greasy and have the option of burger I go for it. And I'm sorry but if I want a greasy burger, I don't expect to pay 8-10 dollars for the middling grade version. The buns are straight from a package and the fries are those overly squishy type that I loathe. Even the ketchup has that slightly... browned age to it.
That's fine, I get that Albie's can cater its below average food to students when there aren't many options. Unfortunately for them, this is no longer true. This past semester the owners of the Burrito powerhouse Caliente's opened the Burger Shack. Now those are some damn fine burgers.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Albie's Place in the URI emporium
Now I get that campus (or slightly off-campus) food is never intended to be the last word in fine dining. Greasy food is what the students want. Cheap, great tasting and greasy are the criteria. Unfortunately Albie's Place in the URI emporium only lives up to one of these things: greasy.
Visiting one of my friends today at the Kingston Campus of URI, I was subjected to Albie's. Now I've been to Albie's before and I knew what I was getting into, so I only agreed when he agreed to pay for lunch. This is because the price/food ratio, hell the value/edibility ratio, of this place is just atrocious.
Now I'm a burger lover, plain and simple, and when I'm going to go greasy and have the option of burger I go for it. And I'm sorry but if I want a greasy burger, I don't expect to pay 8-10 dollars for the middling grade version. The buns are straight from a package and the fries are those overly squishy type that I loathe. Even the ketchup has that slightly... browned age to it.
That's fine, I get that Albie's can cater its below average food to students when there aren't many options. Unfortunately for them, this is no longer true. This past semester the owners of the Burrito powerhouse Caliente's opened the Burger Shack. Now those are some damn fine burgers.
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