Recently I read a small article in the Cincinnati Enquirer about Food Network's hit show "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" with host Guy Fieri coming to Cincinnati to highlight the delicious local food we have to offer the many people of the great states. Terry's Turf Club was highlighted in the article, as the owner was in supposed talks with the producers of the show because they were interested in visiting that establishment (The link 404'd and I can't get the original story here). As a lover of all types of food, and definitely a tasty hamburger, I was pumped this show was coming to Cincinnati. My brother asked me if I wanted to go to Terry's with his lovely fiancée and I jumped at the chance.
Well folks, in this eater's opinion, it doesn't deserve Fieri's presence or all the talk of being one of the best burgers in the Queen City. The burger is average tasting and overpriced. For all three of us, which was three burgers with special sauce, two orders of fries and three cokes, it cost $41 and change, sans tip. Take out the drinks, it was around 12 bucks a person and we had to share the two orders of fries. Now, I get the whole diner shtick they have, the place has enough fluorescent lighting to rival Las Vegas, but much like Vegas, the lights and the show at Terry's don't help you forget about how much money you lose.
At Terry's, you can get a "normal" burger, but what the place is supposedly all about are the "specialty sauces" you can add to the burger (for an extra $1.75), and for me, they were short of special. My brother's burger came with the Burgundy wine with wild mushrooms and truffle sauce. Sounds great, right? Well it was average and nothing more. And it didn't do anything to mask the fact that the burger was sub-par. I probably sound like a parrot with only a couple words on my mind, but if you want to be the best burger joint, you better have a solid tasting burger that can stand on its own, which Terry's does not. My brother's fiancée got a burger with goat cheese and I ordered the roasted red pepper and goat cheese specialty sauce (A picture of the menu can be found at urbanspoon.com, check out the prices!). We both found ours to be just OK, nothing revolutionary like so many people had promised. My burger top kept sliding around due to the copious amount of goat cheese and I looked like a Largemouth bass trying to handle all of the burger that I was given. It was a messy affair to say the least, one that left me overworked and unsatisfied.
The fries, which a lot of people complained about in their reviews, were actually to my liking. They were fried and somehow a little soggy, and had the perfect saltiness. The service was pretty good, despite being very crowded and busy, they still managed to seat us quickly and get our orders out to us on time.
The experience was fine to put it in leyman's terms, not "terryble," but in the end, the burger is king, and this "king" should be de-crowned immediately.
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