Lunch with Captain America.
July 4th, 2010
It’s not easy to find an ‘American’ restaurant. This might seem hard to believe when on just about every suburban street corner is a McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut or Hungry Jacks (Burger King). But then again, you wouldn’t classify any of them as real ‘restaurants’ – or that they serve real ‘food’ for that matter. I wanted to take my American girlfriend Beth to an American restaurant in Melbourne for July 4th, but when I did a search on the net there really wasn’t much to choose from. There was T.G.I. Fridays (just an upmarket McDonalds really), Hollywood Palace (turned out to be a Greek restaurant) and a handful of ‘diners’ serving hamburgers and apple pie. In Melbourne you can dine on local cuisine at Laotian, Afghani, Eritrean, Somalian, Nepalese, Mauritian, Burmese, Iranian and even Iraqi restaurants, but there is no non-hamburger-American-cuisine anywhere. What about Creole, Cajun or even Tex-Mex? No, the best I could find was hamburgers. So, we had no choice – we had to go to Captain America’s Hamburger Heaven Famous Restaurant and Bar in Ferntree Gully.
And it wasn’t just the name that sold me – they had 20 different hamburgers on the menu including a Pizzaburger, Wild Thing Burger, a Yankee Doddle Doo and the Big Heavenly Burger Challenge, which is a one kilo burger with 600 grams of chips. Now that’s what I call American cuisine – huge servings of food that’s really bad for you. And in true American fashion if you can scoff the whole thing down under the record time you get your meal for free (the current record is 6 minutes and 58 seconds). We settled for the rather tame Mushroom Burger and a Cherry Coke instead. We also thought about having the Granny’s Apple High Pie for dessert, but we were both very un-American and couldn’t even finish our burgers and fries.
Beth and Captain America
The bar at Captain America's
Our burgers arrive
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