15 replies on “Five Guys opening on the Downtown Mall.”

  1. Five years from now the headlines will read “Cholesterol Levels Rise Sharply, Addicting Burgers to Blame”!

    Have fun with that place and trust me a small fry is more than plenty for two people!

  2. Waldo,
    while you may be correct in your assumption that it will end badly, you need to try this place.

    I know how you are on fast food and such, but none of their food is processed.

    It is the best burger you will ever eat.

  3. Amber and I went there, to the Barracks Road location, a few months ago. We were unimpressed. I don’t think either of us even finished our burgers. They weren’t bad, just average.

    I’m a White Spot man. It’s a White Spot town. We don’t do chains downtown.

  4. You’re right. Nothing beats the Gus-burger. But that doesn’t mean Five Guys doesn’t also totally kick ass.

  5. I wasn’t impressed with Five Guys, and I HATE all those peanut shells on the floor.

    I do like Tony’s burgers at Chap’s.

    (The best hamburger I ever had was a sirloin burger at the Bright Angel Lodge on the edge of the Grand Canyon. That juicy, thick, flavorful burger has a permanent place in my mental food museum.)

  6. Short of The Riverside, Five Guys has the best burgers in C’ville, and the fries are better there than at The Riverside or at Jack ‘n’ Jill. The owner of the local franchise is a pretty nice guy who advertises on WNRN. How bad can it all be? Five Guys isn’t McDonalds. I just wonder whether this particular franchise will get the traffic it needs to make it, particularly since there’s a THIRD Five Guys going in somewhere–Pantops, I think.

    And, yeah. Order a small burger and small fries. Jesus, the whole rest of the menu is supersized.

  7. I am eternally indebted to Five Guys for knocking off the vastly overrated Riverside as the so called “best burgers in town.”

    Having to wait and then experiencing shitty service for a burger slightly better than Wendy’s was not appreciated.

  8. Jesus, it looks like I’m going to have to make a special trip down to C’ville for a burger challenge!

  9. Five Guys used to not be a chain, back then they were unbeatable. Now that they have franchised, they are still pretty good – but not quite the same… Still way better than the big chains.

    Jonathan Mark, save a vegetable – eat more bugs!
    Seriously, the protein and fiber from insect based burgers is amazing. Yum!

  10. It’ll be tough to beat Martin’s up at Forest Lakes (locally owned by Ryan Martin), but Five Guys beats Riverside by a country mile. Great to have it on the Mall, too. Good news indeed.

    As for the White Spot, just because Five Guys is a burger joint doesn’t mean it’s in competition with the Spot. The two are in different parts of town, have a different business model, and will peacefully coexist. Hell, they’d both still do quite well even if Five Guys opened on the Corner.

  11. I feel like I have had this discussion before. I am no huge fan of 5 Guys. I do like that they run a promotion with Elliot in the Morning (DC) and raise money for charity. I think the burgers are ok, but nothing to make a special trip to get. Knowing what little I do about Downtown Charlottesville, it will have a tough time. Charlottesville, and Downtown especially, likes to support local companies run by their friends and neighbors.

    Kudos to I. Publius that figured out Martins’s is far superior to Riverside.

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