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re: Smashburger Shreveport has closed

Posted on 3/18/17 at 8:54 am to
Posted by LSURoss
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Posted on 3/18/17 at 8:54 am to
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 3/18/17 at 8:10 pm to
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I like TR for the beer selection and the patio.


Ding Ding Ding

Best burger in Shreveport is Fully Stacked or Papas.


Youree drive is falling apart because there's too many damn restaurants. Period. I've been predicting this for years. The city has to realize at some point new buildings aren't needed when there are a bunch right up the street that are vacant.

Bossier needs to figure this out for hotels.
Posted by TheRoarRestoredInBR
Member since Dec 2004
30290 posts
Posted on 3/18/17 at 9:00 pm to
We had Smashburger's St Patty BOGO today, the patty was puny, the tomatoes razor thin and dried out(like cut a day ago), haystack onion rings were puny, cold, and greasy(hours old)...

Whole Foods in Towne Center serves a totally superior larger burger for the same price..with organic fixings..

Smashburger-BR will close down eventually, if the traffic I see there doesn't improve..the product is very inconsistent and seemingly getting worse.
This post was edited on 3/18/17 at 9:34 pm
Posted by marcnbc
Bossier City, LA
Member since May 2004
4176 posts
Posted on 3/18/17 at 10:18 pm to
Grub Burger > Twisted Root. Ki > Don Juanz but DJ's queso is awesome. Nicky's steak fujitas are excellent. Imperial Kathay is still going strong on Youree...took my wife on dates there while we where in college at Tech in the late 80's.
Posted by tiger rag 93
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Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 3/18/17 at 10:39 pm to
I switch back and forth on liking Grub or Twisted Root more. Grub is always juicy and flavorful, but they overload the salt (coming from someone who almost never cares about salt content). My go to at TR, the Kevin bacon, is always solid, they just sometimes cook the patty a little longer than my liking.

One burger that doesn't get near the credit it deserves is Superior Grill. Absolutely huge burger with great grilled flavor and homemade fries for $12.

I think comparing Ki and Don Juanz is a little silly. They are different styles in my opinion, each doing what they do well.
This post was edited on 3/18/17 at 10:41 pm
Posted by SOLA
There
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Posted on 3/19/17 at 9:49 am to
I'm not paying $12 for a hamburger in Shreveport.
Posted by tiger rag 93
KCMO
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Posted on 3/19/17 at 9:50 am to
To be fair, it's two meals worth of food.

And if you go to Grub or Twisted Root and get burger and fries, it's going to be around $12.
This post was edited on 3/19/17 at 9:51 am
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 3/19/17 at 6:10 pm to
Stone Fork has a two meal burger for about $12 on their lunch menu. Very good.
Posted by SaintBrees
Member since Oct 2015
547 posts
Posted on 3/19/17 at 6:15 pm to
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To be fair, it's two meals worth of food


Great if you have someone to split with, but leftover burger sounds gross.
Posted by tiger rag 93
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Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 3/19/17 at 9:03 pm to
I usually get drunk on the margs (girly, I know) and then scarf down the whole plate like a fatass. Then 2-4 hours of regret and self-loathing.
Posted by RidiculousHype
St. George, LA
Member since Sep 2007
10201 posts
Posted on 7/24/17 at 7:03 am to
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Smashburger-BR


Went by this weekend. The staff was clueless. It's not that they were unfriendly, it just seemed like high school kids who didn't know what to do.

It's a shame because they make a good burger. But I don't think I'll be back after that experience.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
18768 posts
Posted on 7/24/17 at 4:24 pm to
As long as this thread is revived, add to the list of the closed places Grimaldis (what were they thinking building in an old mall?), TGI Fridays on Youree, and Boneheads (on Youree). All closed in the last few days.

I will miss Boneheads.
Posted by timbo
Red Stick, La.
Member since Dec 2011
7315 posts
Posted on 7/24/17 at 4:39 pm to
quote:


Went by this weekend. The staff was clueless.


We went once, not too long after it opened a couple of years ago. They really dicked up our order. Left toppings off my burger and my medium fries were the same size as my wife's small order. The people next to us ordered shakes and it was taking forever -- like we ate our entire meal while they waited. The manager was getting on employees for screwing things up.
Sounds like things haven't changed. There are just too many other good burger places in town, like Curbside, Mooyah, Burgersmith, Red Robin and Five Guys.
Posted by jimithing11
Dillon, Texas
Member since Mar 2011
22472 posts
Posted on 7/24/17 at 5:41 pm to
quote:

As long as this thread is revived, add to the list of the closed places Grimaldis (what were they thinking building in an old mall?), TGI Fridays on Youree, and Boneheads (on Youree). All closed in the last few days.

I will miss Boneheads.



Wife showed me a video the other day from the Times with all the recent restaurant closures. Interesting. Is it real estate issues or more to it?
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
34472 posts
Posted on 7/24/17 at 8:07 pm to
It's too many restaurants. The city planners of Shreveport could learn a lot by watching some YouTubes on city planning or even playing Civilization a few times. They keep supporting these new shopping centers, and shockingly every 10-20 years those go out of style and consumers move elsewhere. Well, the new shopping center is down by Forbing. Youree was way overbuilt and now all the money for city infrastructure is wasted. Shreveport's footprint has grown massively in 49 years but the population hasn't. At some point the city planners will stop capitulating to the latest real estate developer and actually put some effort into keeping up a nice downtown retail area(Whole Foods!) or telling people "No, you can't build x there, we've already got a shitload there already."

Who am I kidding, no they won't. Shreveport is a sinking ship just like the rest of the state.

Posted by Polar Pop
Member since Feb 2012
10748 posts
Posted on 7/25/17 at 9:35 am to
We should get a game of Shreveport Shutdown Bingo going
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