The Albert — Restaurant in Atlanta

Tips: Brunch items are available on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am-3pm. or until they run out. Weeknights, the kitchen closes at 11pm. They currently charge .50 cents for each substitute item on a burger... ie, one tiny, soggy leaf of lettuce, and one little piece of tomato on a burger. And they will not tell you that before they charge for it (annd it doesn't state this anywhere on the menu!) Really not cool!

If you're not a regular here, the service may seem a little on the "aggressive" side, for lack of a better word. The employees are all very nice though. The menu is pretty straightforward and not fancy. The burgers here are a very serious business, and by that I mean that they are seriously delicious! My two favourites are The O.D.B. burger that is available on the weekend brunch menu, and The Albert burger without onion. I'm almost drooling just thinking about these as I type this. I also love the fried chicken sandwich. For a side with my burger, I really enjoy the kale salad. The green beans and the mac n cheese are also pretty good. As much as I love fries in general, I won't eat the ones from here anymore. They taste frozen and are really bad. I used to get the grits with my brunch, but they have started making them too spicy for me,...

The atmosphere here is comfortable. This place has a laid back pub feel but a little more trendy drink and dining options. My girlfriend and I tried three different cocktails, the Inman Spice , the ATL Staycation, and the Springvale Secret Garden, while the ingredients in the drinks were very different, I found they all tasted exactly the same. The Smoked Chicken Nachos were our appetizer...they were cold and were covered in processed cheese sauce. The Albert is listed on Atlanta Magazine's 20 Best Burgers list which was the reason we tried this place. I ordered the Albert Burger and my girlfriend ordered the Diner Burger and we were both underwhelmed. We read the burgers are intended to be thin and I understand a diner style patty should have some crsipiness on the outside, but these burgers had defintiely crossed the point of no return and were burnt. All the juice had dissipated and the meat was crumbly and as dry as the sahara, even the cheese had burnt into a cheese cracker from oozing over the dry patties onto the flat iron. As I stated before, the atmosphere was comfy, but I really have no reason to go back to the...

Hate to see this place slide, but I feel like it has. Some background: the wife and I were hitting this place almost every weekend almost along with some other intown stuff when our kid went to college to try and get over missing Little Buddy. We got to the point where the bartenders would give us a "good to see you again" type welcome. We felt like several visits ago things weren't great food wise and didn't have the burning desire to come back. The last day of Inman Park Festival we walked in and were ignored for about 20 minutes while the bartender did shots with his buddy who was seated next to us. Kinda pissed us off and we left. A friend that we turned on to The Albert wanted to celebrate a big birthday there a few weeks ago, so we bit our tongue and went. They, as we did, felt it wasn't the same place and the food was not great like before. I ordered the 6 smoked wings and got 4 full ones and 2 that were broken in half and were only a half nugget size. Don't get me wrong, there is no more cozy a spot to watch a football game at during a cool , rainy November evening, but I'm disapointed in my last...