Gotta agree with the masses here, sadly. 3.5 stars. Short version? Nothing offensive, but nothing would make me go out of my way to eat here again.
This was our first experience with any Guy Fieri restaurant. We stumbled through the mass of people around the Duty Free area and into the food court, and this conglomeration of "Guy!" restaurants met us in the far corner near where the entrance to the gates begins. Each individual counter at their station offers something different. Cool, right? Not so much here. We came through at a crazy busy time, elbow-to-elbow people, and standing room only. There's a sandwich counter, a pizza counter, and at the far end - the burger counter. The fellas in the grill area of the burger spot looked like they were slinging good, fresh meat on the grill and the menu spouted many tasty-sounding options to choose from. For a long flight, we thought a burger sounded good before jumping on the plane, so we lighted there.
Walking up to the counter presented no issue, but we could barely hear the order taker guy and none of them looked too pleased with having to assist any of us in line. We opted for the Real Deal Cheeseburger and Vegas (buffalo/blue-cheese sidewinder) Fries. We were handed a round "food buzzer" that went off about 10 minutes after we ordered. We did see the kitchen staff making each meal fresh, so at least there were no heat-lamps present.
When it came time to get our food, since we had the most sully of all order-takers at the counter initially, we had no idea what to do. Were the waiters walking around in elbow-to-elbow people supposed to come find us? Were we supposed to get up and go to the counter to collect our food? We had no idea. After about 2 minutes of the buzzer freaking out and making noise (oh yes, these sound like mid-2000s cell phones ringing), I wandered back up to the counter to inquire. There was a massive line forming at the burger counter and no space in which to ask anyone behind the line. Finally a waiter looking dude came up through the crowd and was muttering something to the folks behind the counter so I nudged in and asked him what to do. He told me to go all the way down PAST the pizza counter, to the SANDWICH counter at the far end of the "Guy" restaurant location, and they would have my burger and fries. HOW IN THE EFF would ANYone have known to do that? WHY would that be ANY restaurant's process? They had to pass my cooked burger and fries through the hands of the burger folks at the far end of the counter, then through the way of the Pizza making folks at their counter and finally bug the Sandwich shop making people to hold my burger at the furthest point away from where I ordered? What sense does any of that make? I digress...
For the food: The burger was NOT seasoned at ALL before or after being put on the grill. While the meat was ok, it just had no flavor! (And this from the Mayor of "Flavortown"...) The veggies added to the burger were larger than the patty itself and when smashed together to get a bite made the whole experience very soggy. The bun was NOT great. It was MASSIVE compared to the thin patty of meat. Not toasted, no slight buttery crunch, and hardly served to hold the thin patty and toppings together. The cheese unfortunately melted away into soggy oblivion and added virtually no addition flavor either. (To be honest, I forgot two bites in that we even had cheese on the burger.)
The Vegas fries were good, not great. They were cooked up nice and hot and crispy, but had virtually NO buffalo sauce on them and the tiniest sprinkling of blue cheese crumbles. They were decent on flavor and certainly had more pizzazz than the burger, but weren't worth $8-9 (US).
Overall, we paid about $20 (US) for a single, thin, soggy burger, and under-seasoned fries. We left full, easily able to share between the two of us, but we would probably just head to Panda Express next door if we found ourselves wandering through the Cancun airport again. read more