Patrick's

Kress Burger (Bacon Cheese Burger with lettuce, tomato, onion rings, and side of chili)
Bacon Cheese Burger

Sometimes one cannot live on gourmet food alone; one must also indulge in the occasional burger.  Our Protagonist, having heard good things about Patrick’s, decided the experiment was in order.  To get more bang for his buck, a Kress Burger was decided upon with both chili and fries to get a good smattering of different tastes.  The server assured the chili was good.  It was fine.  For comparison's sake, he chili at Waffle House is also fine; nothing to write home about, but edible.  The fries were fries; nothing bad, nothing particularly outstanding except a good outer crunch.  The onion rings rated more words; a nice outside batter, crispy, tender inside.  These were quickly conscripted as a burger topping along with the choice of freshly sliced bleu cheese.  The burger, itself, was cooked exactly to order, a beautiful medium rare, which few places know how to do properly.  His dining partner also got his medium rare, but ate more daintily with a knife and fork.  He was also saving half for later, so he carefully bisected his meal.  A good burger, however, is easily recognized by the request for more napkins, which became an emergency at one point, with our Protagonist's dining partner play-acting as the mirror to an obviously messy face that needed a mother’s attention.  The knife-and-fork procedure, though, did reveal the perfection to which the burger was cooked; it looked like something out of a grocery store circular advertising ground beef for the Fourth of July, with the textbook searing cocooning the light pink inside and finally morphing into the beautiful warm red center.  Lovely.  Perhaps the sides aren’t that special, but the burger clearly is something done “well” here, and still at discount prices, to boot!

Patrick's
1481 Main Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-955-1481