Review of McDonalds

2457 Lincoln Boulevard, 90291.  Drive through.

This one was mighty fine.  A PCH jam.  Classic California experience. This one has that super slick new design, which I kinda don’t understand.  For the new generation.  Probably has free wi-fi. 

Uhm, the food was good.  Honestly I ate this like two or three weeks ago and forgot to post.  I pulled over to the side of the street to eat it.  Some guy pulled up behind me it was weird. The burger was kinda just what I wanted? Yeah.  The fries were, I think, just ok.  Maybe the fries were weird that day.  But not too weird.  Can’t remember.  The coke was probably good.  I don’t think I’ve had a bad coke yet?

I give this experience a B/B+.

This dude commented on the Barstow McDs.  He sounds like a local interested in dropping some local knowledge.

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1611 East Main Street, 92311. Dine in.

So, this one is unusual because it’s not in LA.  But whatever.  Also, this one may be responsible for the long break in reviews lately.  Ate here a while ago, and it was such a ridiculous bummer that I was like, forget this.  Not that I was over McDs at all.  It was just such a crappy dining experience that I didn’t want to have to relive it to write it up.  

But here we go.  First off, this is kind of a special McDonald’s constructed out of old train cars or some historic crap.  Second, it’s attached to this super tourist gift shop with keychains that say “Bort” on them, and then insane collectable knives and just a bunch of weird shit that you could never imagine owning. So at one moment, you’re looking at a McDs counter—you turn 180 degrees around and it’s just all of this schlocky garbage.  Now that I think about it, it kind of makes sense. 

But the food did not make sense!  It was a tragedy, this food. The burger was as old as Barstow, I swear to god.  The first, man, I can’t even remember.  McDs usually gets the fries right and this was not right.  This was wrong.  I don’t remember the coke either.  The whole visit just blew my brains to smithereens.  One thing you want when you’re driving for hours is some comfort food, then Barstow Station McDonalds just whips you in the face with this crap.  Bummer. This is the kind of food that gives McDs a bad reputation SHAME ON YOU BARSTOW MCDONALDS!

I give this experience an F. 

If I may..

The reason you were greeted with tourist gift shops and such when you entered is because it is the Barstow Station. It is where the Greyhound buses stop and it is a big source of money for our town. Now I agree the food isnt always the best, but it must have been a bad day that you came, because usually it is quite acceptable  Perhaps it’s because I live in the town and can eat it whenever I see the time right. It also gives me more chances for a hit or miss type deal. Hope you decide to return sometime and try it again, it might surprise you.

1007 North Western Avenue, 90029.  Drive through. 

So when you pull up to this place, you’re thinking, this must be a really great McD’s because it’s literally right next to a Burger King.  (Shoulda got a pic of that but didn’t so I used google map street view to illustrate my point.)  The competitive vibe must just totally pump these two places up and keep them performing at peak level.  But then again, they might just rely on confusion because I almost pulled into the BK parking lot on accident.  So maybe they’re just counting on people to pull in, realize their mistake and just give up and eat wherever they happened to pull in to.  But they didn’t count on a dude running a McD’s blog.

The burger was spot on.  All the ingredients came together and they just kind of run into one flavor when it’s good.  The fries were not as good tho—not bad but not as well executed as the burger.  Too well done, too crispy. The coke was great, but here’s the deal.  The biggest bumemr was that I spilled my drink all over my floor when I got home so I had to drink sparingly to make sure I had enough to wash down the rest of the food.  I think that it made me really appreciate the coke, which made it taste really excellent.

I give this experience an A-/B+

17641 Ventura Boulevard, 91316.  Drive Through.

Really crazy parking lot at this one.  Ample parking but lots of weird lanes.  People come in off the streets really fast.  The inside has these insane wall panels with these beautiful, bright photographs of animals on the Serengeti.  Maybe it’s to spark the animal instinct inside you to eat a lot.  I wanted to take a pic of them but there were a lot of families eating so it would have been too weird.

The food was eh. The dude at the window looked kind of shocked when I asked for more salt.  He was pretty handsome in the way that a guy on a McDonald’s commercial would look, but would never actually look like in real life.  The burger was kind of tasteless except for the ketchup, and then the ketchup tasted kind of like vinegar?  What?  The bread was kind of stale and a piece of the “crust” got stuck in my tooth for a while.  So annoying! The fries I can’t really remember so they must have been average.  Coke was a blessing.  

I give this experience a B-. 

1611 East Main Street, 92311. Dine in.

So, this one is unusual because it’s not in LA.  But whatever.  Also, this one may be responsible for the long break in reviews lately.  Ate here a while ago, and it was such a ridiculous bummer that I was like, forget this.  Not that I was over McDs at all.  It was just such a crappy dining experience that I didn’t want to have to relive it to write it up.  

But here we go.  First off, this is kind of a special McDonald’s constructed out of old train cars or some historic crap.  Second, it’s attached to this super tourist gift shop with keychains that say “Bort” on them, and then insane collectable knives and just a bunch of weird shit that you could never imagine owning. So at one moment, you’re looking at a McDs counter—you turn 180 degrees around and it’s just all of this schlocky garbage.  Now that I think about it, it kind of makes sense. 

But the food did not make sense!  It was a tragedy, this food. The burger was as old as Barstow, I swear to god.  The first, man, I can’t even remember.  McDs usually gets the fries right and this was not right.  This was wrong.  I don’t remember the coke either.  The whole visit just blew my brains to smithereens.  One thing you want when you’re driving for hours is some comfort food, then Barstow Station McDonalds just whips you in the face with this crap.  Bummer. This is the kind of food that gives McDs a bad reputation SHAME ON YOU BARSTOW MCDONALDS!

I give this experience an F. 

8152 West Sunset Boulevard, 90046.  Drive through. 

This location is a delight.  You have to drive through into the building to get to the drive through.  So you just plunge into the side of this strip mall building, go through this teeny tunnel that’s barely big enough for your car, and basically just inhale exhaust fumes while you wait.  The car hallway has this really strange, Disneyland-like feeling to it. I really like this one.  

And the food was super good!  The cheese were basically mattresses.  Bam.  Into it.  Burger, pretty fresh; bun, just alright tho.  Fries were golden, classic.  Not that weird like, super chrunchy outside, cloud like fluff on the inside … get out of here with that crap!  Coke didn’t let me down either.  This place is a jam.  Recommended. 

I give this experience an A-/B+.

1413 Vine Street, 90028. Drive Though.

Ok.  I was super drunk when I ate here.  Super late at night, i-know-I-shouldn’t-but-here-we-go kind of wasted meal.  Taco Bell calls it fourth meal, but I call it sixteenth meal or something up there.  It’s been a while since I posted, so let’s get down to business and talk about this guy.

So good.  Maybe because I was drunk or whatever, but so good.  I think I remember telling someone that the cheese had that perfect American Cheese thing happening, super gooey and tasty.  Not all gross like it’d been sitting under the heat lamp for four days or whatever.  The fries were killing me they were so good.  It was like I could never eat enough salt kind of moment.  (Speaking of which, I’m waiting for my heart to completely seize up one of these dayz.)  It’s funny because I keep forgetting what this meal was like, so I keep looking back at the photos to remind me—but the photos look like every other photo I take.  And I just remembered a trip to a McDs I took during one of the million heat waves we’ve had over the last two months.  It was so hot I went through the drive through in my underwear and a t-shirt in the middle of the day.  Man, that was really tasty food that day too.

Also, the Coke was superbly refreshing.

I give this experience A.

5450 Sunset Boulevard, 90027.  Drive through.

Wow.  This was pretty delicious.  This is my go-to McDs mainly because it’s so close to me.  But it always delivers.  So much stuff going on in the parking lot at all times too.  There’s a Food for Less and an ICDC College.  There’s always people milling around, talking to each other in cars, shopping carts like everywhere.  And then there’s a really intimidating fence/gate around the whole lot, and the fence around the McDs play place is super high, hooks at the top and has these spear headed, terrifying tips to it.  Gotta be weird playing inside there when you’re a kid.

The food was great.  It was so great.  After you order, in the afternoon, the sun just beats down on you until you get into the shade of the building.  So when you finally get to the window where you pay, you finally feel cool and relieved.  You feel so honored to pay.  I was so nice to the lady too.  Supernaturally polite.  What made the heat extra-intense was the unexplained delay in the line.  One of those times where you’re watching the dude at the front of the line, just sitting there, and you’re wondering, ‘jesus, what did he order,’ and then a hand sticks out of the McD’s window, hands him a packaged orange juice or whatever, then he drives off.   ¯\(°_o)/¯ 

Anyway.  Burger: fantastic.  It was even a little not-that-warm, but it was so greasy and the cheese was perfect.   Fries:  so good.  Again, should have been warmer, but whoa.  So.  Good.  Coke: so refreshing.  

I give this experience an A/A-.