Dangerous Dan’s fulfils my need for beef… on a Sunday – Halleluiah

So we rode on our bikes out to the Toronto beaches and were going to treat ourselves to a Burger’s Priest as we had heard so much about it, but the Priest goes to Church on Sunday – pah! So we were mighty disappointed.

On our ride home we were foaming at the mouths for a burger, but had built up the anticipation so much we didn’t want to just settle fro something sub-par. That’s when we stumbled upon Dangerous Dan’s on the corner of Broadview Avenue and Queen Street East – who claims to have the best burger in Toronto and you can sit in – score!

The place is awesome, old car chair diner seats, signs that insult vegetarians and an open kitchen to tease you with the smell of flame grilling meat mmmm. The menu has everything you can thing of from steak dinners, ribs, wings, breakfast and of course, burgers! There is even a symbol against certain foods: Recommended for Medicinal Cannabis Users (intended as humor only).

You can have a 24 ounce bulls balls burger, or a "McEwan" with 10oz NY steak freshly ground into a hamburger patty, mixed with beer, shitake and oyster mushrooms, camembert and brie cheese along with a 4oz pan fried Lobster Tail drizzled with clarified butter. As much as I really wanted to have a go at one of those amazing challenges, we opted for cheese and bacon burger, fries and onion rings.

We ordered at the counter and waited hesitantly, while playing trivia with the Simpsons character poster next to us. [I really think Dave should choose the Simpsons if he ever were to go on Mastermind]. Out came a desert for someone – deep fried mars bars, they looked amazing. I was so excited.

The burger came. They were pretty busy so the service wasn’t too fast. Long enough to build to the suspense, but not too long I started to eat the ketchup.



Wow. I admired it for a while (and took some pics to share).

Then I dived in. It was all I wanted in a burger. The beef was moist and cooked just right. There was the right amount of crispy bacon and cheese and the bun held together well. Fries were fat and crispy, but would have preferred skin on. The only thing I thought wasn’t up to scratch was the onion rings. They were a bit too greasy.

$5.99 (cheese & peameal burger)

Overall pretty frickn awesome – best burger I have had in Toronto so far.

I want to go back to attempt something off the Double D menu and some chocolate salty balls…