Your Mom's Burger Bar

Brian:

Dre:

Zach:  Ahh yes, got to love the second round of Burger Wars.  For the most part we don't really expect any mediocre burgers at this point, it's just a matter of who is the best of the best.  The Burger Club had been to Your Mom's before prior to starting the bracket and reviews were mixed.  Personally I have always had a good burger here, especially the Buffalo Bill burger.  That is what I had this time and I believe everyone else did also.  Everything on this burger works together.  Most buffalo burgers seem to mainly just go for meat, buffalo sauce and bleu cheese - and that's pretty good.  But here there is an addition of a pepper, tomato, bacon, and onions, a large pepper, and some Ranch Dressing.  Sounds like a lot but it's incredibly flavorful.  Some burgers are just begging to be dipped in ketchup, but not this one - it would just be wrong to disturb the complex flavor it already has going on.  I did note a small difference from the East location and that was they used to use small grape tomatoes split in half and here they just used regular sliced tomatoes.  I really like the flavor of those grape tomatoes and maybe it was a temporary substitution so I'm not going to picket them or anything over this.  I also really like the bun on this burger even though from the outside it looks like it's going to be a tough somewhat hard bun.  It's definitely unique I haven't noticed any buns like this in our burger journeys.  One last point about this burger which I hope applies to the rest of their crazy burgers here, and that is it tastes to me like someone actually tasted these burgers when making them up.  Some places have crazy burgers that just don't work.  You have to wonder if the restaurant even has an idea what they taste like or if they don't care, they just figure having a burger with a lot of different stuff mixed in will sell well.
     Moving past the burger, the fries were a bit different than a remembered before.  Heavily seasoned with who knows what - perhaps a mix of salt, paprika, fajita seasoning, pepper, and maybe sugar.  They were a tiny bit overcooked, but the seasoning carried them through anyways and they were pretty good.  Had some rings that were decent, but not spectacular. The onions are too thick mainly and the frying not light golden and delicious but a little bit more dark golden and on the greasy side.  I was somewhat surprised that even starting from scratch with a new building, they managed to create an atmosphere that was actually worse than the other location.  I'm not an interior designer myself, but there are just many things wrong with their space from the layout of tables to the colors to the odd choice of wall hangings.  We puzzled over a painting that may have been Butch Vig, Leonard Coen, Bruce Springsteen, or Frank Zappa for some time.  Then there are about 10 paintings of Madonna as a comic book character in various phases of her career. Ordering is slightly awkward too as you stand and make your order by a long bar.  Part of the awkwardness was perhaps due to how stoned the cashier was.  Prices are really reasonable considering how good everything is here.  Definitely see Your Moms as a rising star in the bracket.

Box Score:  

	Andre	Brian	Zach
Bread	8	7	8.25
Meat	8.5	8.25	8.5
Toppings	8.5	8.5	8.5
Construction	8.25	7.5	8
Overall	8.75	7.75	8.5
Total Burger	63.438	58.438	62.81
Sides	7.5	7	7
Atmosphere	6.5	6.5	7.25
Value	8	8	8.5
Non Burger	18	17.5	18.5
Totals	81.44	75.94	81.3
Combined		80