Bongo Burger — Restaurant in Berkeley

I used to LOVE going to Bongo Burger on Telegraph back when I was in high school. Great burgers! However, this is obviously no longer the case.

When I first saw my burger, my heart sank--it wasn't so much a burger as it was a loaf of bread with a thin layer of meat spread on it.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this burger was 60% bread, 25% lettuce and tomato, and 15% meat. There was so little meat that it was more of a condiment on a bread and lettuce sandwich, offering a slight burger-y after taste to what tasted like a bread and lettuce sandwich.

This problem wasn't isolated to my medditeranean burger; my girlfriend's kabob wrap was also shockingly devoid of meat, causing her to question if they accidentally made her some sort of bland lettuce and onion vegetarian wrap until she got a third of the way through and finally found a small piece of meat. When she was finished, her plate was full of mounds of tortilla that she had picked off in an effort to make her kabob wrap taste more like kabob and less like the lettuce and tortilla wrap that she was served.

So sad to see what was once a great restaurant stoop so low as this. I get that the restaurant industry is hard, but cutting down on your meat servings to the point that your burgers taste more like bread than meat isn't going to be your...

This was back in 2010, and I never forget this moment. My friends and I had come in at what seemed to be closing time. We were all starving and had just taken the overnight bus back from San Francisco. The plan was to stay up and watch movies, but we didn’t have much choices on food. As we were walking up Dwight to go to our house on Benvenue, we saw that bongo Burger was open or seem to be open when we walked in the owner looked at us as if we had traveled many many miles. He was warm and welcoming, and even cracked a few jokes Not only was the food amazing for my first time ever having it, but he gave us extra fries, and we made sure that we gave him a very good tip. From that point on every football season, we made sure to get the bongo burger, breakfast special And go back and watch the games at the apartment. All I can say is that bongo Burger is a staple in college eating, and in Northern...

Quite good fast food place. Service was nice, quick and easy ordering with no line even though it was the evening. I took their Persian burger and fries to go. A word of caution here, their "burger" isn't your typical fast-food style, but a sub-style sandwich. This threw me off a bit, but it was good and didn't disappoint my burger craving. The fries aren't worth it; they are definetely frozen and are sub-par by frozen fry standards, and the portion is quite small (you would be better off buying a pack of frozen fries from somewhere for the price). Overall a good experience, and if the price were cheaper it would probably be a regularly visited favorite of mine. Instead, it's a nice sandwich shop for when you want fast food and need to satisfy that burger urge every...