My first warning to you is to stay away from the French Dip. It is labeled on the menu as Beef Dip and I learned the hard way why the naming convention is different. French Dips are good. The sliced roast beef and the toasted bread and the piping hot au jus is usually tasty regardless of the restaurant. I like mine topped with Swiss cheese.

The Beef Dip at Crown Burger was a waste of my money. I think the beef had been cooking in liquid all day so that when I came around, the meat was dry and flavorless. This would normally be okay if the Au Jus had any flavor resembling what normally serves for the dipping sauce with a French Dip at other restaurants, but I think they just used beef bouillon for the dipping gravy. The toasted bread that it was served on was okay, as was the Swiss cheese. The way the meat came out on my sandwich was the antithesis of the true definition of Au Jus.

All that is besides the point. I originally dined at Crown Burger so I could eat their yummy fries. These fries are skinless and of the thick Julienne cut. I would say they are about as thick as my pinkie. Length can be anywhere from the length of my longest finger to the size of my thumb up to the knuckle. These fries are fluffy on the inside and just barely golden on the outside.

Everything at Crown Burger is served hot hot hot and the fries are no different. Everytime I order fries at one of these joints, I end up with a scalded tongue. I would advise waiting a few minutes before digging in.

I loaded up at the condiment bar with their original fry sauce and ketchup. Some fries taste better with ketchup and others taste better with fry sauce. Each type of fry sauce has a different ‘zing’ in it that makes it different. The zing at Crown Burger appears to be some form of pickled relish. Their fry sauce goes particularly well with their fries so I barely even touched my ketchup.

I wouldn’t let the nasty French Dip keep me away from these Greek Burger restaurants. That was one of the few bad experiences I have had. Many times when I am in the mood for local fries, the kind that don’t come frozen in bags like at chain restaurants, I think fondly of Crown Burger and their kin.

As far as I was able to discern, Iggy’s is actually a local franchise. Local to the Salt Lake City area. I would share some more details but after you finish reading this post you will understand why I was not able to provide any more information.

I think that is what made them so good. Did I also mention that the service was impeccable? We were seated promptly and immediately our server had brought us our drinks and our bread. Iggy’s Sports Grill serves this amazing dipping sauce that goes with the equally amazing freshly baked bread. I almost had to invest in a second stomach just so I could eat bread and chili sauce-dip with one and battered french fries with the other.

Iggy’s Sports Grill almost turned out to be a disappointment because when I got to their website it was nothing but a pain in the ass injection of pure flash. I don’t think there was a single line of HTML found there. The website took over sixty seconds to load completely and then I was assaulted with multi-media that I did not ask for in the first place. It is a good thing that my dining experience more than made up for the website’s failings. Hell, maybe I can get a job working on their website. It seems that they haven’t been paying their internet bills. The website is down. I bet they exceeded their bandwidth allotments for the massive amounts of data transfer required just to load the front page. Do you guys hear me? If so, email me and I’ll help you guys out.

I stole this image without permission

http://www.iggyssportsgrill.com/