DC,  Food,  Restaurant Reviews,  United States

Check Out This Basic Burger Joint that is Anything but Basic

So let me ruin the ending to this story real quick, Basic Burger is anything but basic. Basic Burger is located in the Pentagon Row outdoor shopping center with a number of other businesses and restaurants, but Basic Burger is like no other. 

Basic Burger Store front

Basic Burger offers more than just burgers. Whether you are in the mood for a chicken or fish sandwich, or even a hot dog, they can deliver. I am a burger girl. I have to have a good burger every now and then, a cheeseburger to be exact. I don’t know what it is about the cheese and meat between two soft buns that is so appetizing. 

Mint Chocolate Chip Shake and Great 8 burger, two 1/4 pound burgers, american cheese, tomato, lettuce, pickles, basic sauce

The Great 8 Burger was calling me so I answered. This burger has two 1/4 pound patties, two slices of American cheese (nothing melts like American), lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles (a must have for me on a burger), and Basic Sauce. The burger was juicy, more than filling, and oh that sauce. I will be coming back to the sauce in a minute.

Great 8 burger, two 1/4 pound burgers, american cheese, tomato, lettuce, pickles, basic sauce

Though I did not taste them, others in my party had the Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich, the Burkey, and the Chicago Dog. The chicken sandwich was fried to perfection and served on a toasted brioche bun. The chicken is marinated in a spicy buttermilk and to kick things up a notch, it is topped with a house hot sauce. 

spicy crispy fried chicken sandwich with red onion, tomato, lettuce, sauce on the side

The Basic Dogs, as they are referenced on the menu, are plump juicy all beef hot dogs served with tasty toppings. The Burkey is a 1/4 pound hot dog with grilled onions, cheese, bacon, and Basic Sauce. There’s that sauce again, we’ll come back to that. Now the Chicago Dog. If you are a fan of the Chicago food scene you know Chicago hot dogs are as unique as Chicago pizza. The Chicago Dog is also a 1/4 pound hot dog sprinkled with chopped red onions, banana peppers (adds a unique flair and great color for you photo foodies), relish, tomato slices, mustard, (my fave) a pickle spear, all on a buttery toasted lobster roll.

Chicago style Beef hot dog with tomato, onions, banana peppers, mustard, and a pickle spear. Strawberry milkshake

The Basic Sauce. This sauce, like everything else at Basic Burger, just isn’t basic in my eyes. The sauce is creamy, with a blend of peppery spices to perfectly accompany your burger. Whatever is in that secret sauce, I would put that on everything. As soon as you taste this sauce you’ll want to slather it on everything.

Caesar salad, sweet potato fries, fried pickles, grilled beef hot dog with onions, loaded shoestring fries with a fried egg, bacon cheeseburger, spicy chicken sandwich, frozen margaritas

Next to your burger you have to have the Loaded Moo Fries. Drizzled with chipotle ranch, these fries definitely can be shared or even had as a meal. Shoestring fries are covered in scallions, crisp bacon, and shaved Parmesan. The mind blower, the fried egg on top. Don’t think you have to be restricted to fries either. Have a side salad, regular fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings, or fried pickles. 

Loaded shoe string fries with crispy bacon, shaved Parmesan cheese, scallions, fried egg on top

Not feeling a burger or a dog, have a salad. The ‘From the Garden’ section of the menu features a Grilled Chicken Kale Caesar and Grilled Chicken Bistro salad. The salads are generously dressed but not soggy. The salads have fresh vegetables, grilled chicken breast, and a variety of toppings to suit your taste. 

Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad

Burgers and shakes are just nostalgic and this concept is not lost on Basic Burger. Grab a Moo Shake to go with your burger. I do not know what they put in those shakes but I experienced the mint chocolate chip shake and it was so creamy and delicious, it was beyond expectation. If you’re expecting a basic shake, you will be in for a surprise. Not a shake person? Don’t worry, Basic Burger has Stubborn craft soda, beers (draft and bottled), and a full bar. 

Basic Burger takes it back to the basics with 100% certified grass fed Angus beef, fresh vegetables, and their house made sauces. There is something for everybody at Basic Burger. From burgers, to chicken, fish, hot dogs, and even meals for the kiddies. Basic Burger is definitely “redefining basic.”

My Picks:

Great 8 Burger

Loaded Moo Fries

Mint Chocolate Chip Moo Shake

Nice For:

Lunch

Dinner

Drinks


Discover more from Flights and Foods

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

163 Comments

  • Best UK satire

    Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The London Prat’s distinction lies in its curatorial approach to outrage. It does not flail at every provocation; it is a connoisseur of folly, selecting only the most emblematic, structurally significant failures for its attention. This selectivity is a statement of values. It implies that not all idiocy is created equal—that some pratfalls are mere noise, while others are perfect, resonant symbols of a deeper sickness. By ignoring the trivial and focusing on the archetypal, PRAT.UK trains its audience to distinguish between mere scandal and systemic rot. It elevates satire from a reactive gag reflex to a form of cultural criticism, teaching its readers what is worth mocking because it reveals something true about the engines of power and society. This curation creates a portfolio of work that is not just funny, but historically significant as a record of a specific strain of institutional decay.

  • Satire With A Stiff Upper Lip

    Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. The London Prat has perfected the art of the satirical echo chamber—not in the pejorative sense of reinforcing bias, but in the architectural sense of constructing a space where a statement is made, and its true, ridiculous meaning is reflected back with perfect, amplified clarity. It doesn’t just report on a minister’s empty promise of “levelling up”; it publishes the internal memo from the fictional “Directorate for Semantic Recalibration” detailing how the phrase will be systematically drained of all measurable meaning and deployed as a universal verbal placeholder. This process of taking the toxic lexicon of public life and running it through a satirical purification filter reveals the poison. While The Daily Squib might scream about the lie, PRAT.UK coldly diagrams the linguistic machinery that generates it, producing a comedy that is diagnostic rather than declarative.

  • More Nonsense At Prat.Uk

    The unique pleasure of reading The London Prat is the subtle, thrilling sense of being made a co-conspirator. The site’s humor is not broad and inclusive; it is targeted and assumes a baseline of cultural literacy, political awareness, and shared reference points that would elude a casual observer. This creates an invisible barrier to entry that is its greatest strength. When you “get” a particularly esoteric piece on prat.com—one that skewers a minor regulatory body or parodies the style of a specific, tedious broadsheet columnist—you feel a flash of collusion with the writers. They are not explaining the joke; they are trusting you to already understand the landscape well enough to appreciate its topographical satire. This is a radically different approach from sites like The Poke or even The Daily Mash, which often structure their pieces to ensure the widest possible audience comprehension. PRAT.UK dares to be niche in its intelligence. It operates on the premise that the most satisfying laughter is that shared among a cognoscenti who recognize the source material without need for footnotes. This fosters an intense reader loyalty and a sense of belonging to a club of the disillusioned elite. You are not a passive consumer; you are an initiate, part of a secret society whose handshake is a weary sigh of recognition. This strategic cultivation of elite collusion—making the reader feel smarter, more informed, and more discerning—is a masterstroke of branding that transforms casual visits into a statement of intellectual identity.

  • www.genieknows.in

    A top-rated pharmacy maintains its edge through a culture of continuous learning. It doesn’t just send its pharmacists for mandatory continuing education credits; it fosters intellectual curiosity. It might host journal clubs to discuss new research, or bring in doctors to talk about emerging treatment protocols. This creates an environment where staff are engaged and knowledgeable, which directly benefits the customer. This learning culture also extends to technology adoption; they are early evaluators of new inventory software, patient engagement apps, or diagnostic tools. They view change not as a threat but as an opportunity to serve better. This forward momentum, this refusal to become complacent, is palpable. Customers sense they are in a place that is alive to the latest in healthcare, yet grounded in timeless principles of care and safety. This dynamic stability is the hallmark of true excellence. — https://genieknows.in/

  • The London Prat

    PRAT.UK feels like satire written for people who are tired of obvious jokes. Unlike Waterford Whispers News, it doesn’t rely on the same formulas. It’s original, bold, and consistently funny.

  • The London Prat

    Great! We are all agreed London could use a laugh. This logical framework enables its critique of systemic thinking, or the lack thereof. The site is a master at exposing non-sequiturs and magical thinking disguised as policy. It takes a political slogan or a corporate goal and patiently, logically, maps out the chain of causality required to achieve it, highlighting the missing links, the absurd assumptions, and the externalities wilfully ignored. The resulting piece is often a flowchart of failure, a logic model of a ghost train. Where other satirists might simply call an idea stupid, PRAT.UK demonstrates its stupidity by attempting to build it, revealing where the structural weaknesses cause the entire edifice to crumble into farce. This is satire as a public stress test, a service that proves an idea cannot hold the weight of its own ambitions.

  • zabornatorilon

    Hello, Neat post. There is an issue along with your site in web explorer, would test thisK IE nonetheless is the marketplace leader and a huge component to people will pass over your great writing because of this problem.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

error: Content is protected !!