Fred's Parkview — Restaurant in Burlington

Fred's Parkview is a nice, comfortable place that thinks a bit too highly of themselves! Outside the windows scream, "World's Best Hamburgers"... I'd like to know who the judges in that competition were!! Good, yes. World's best, questionable. The building is, obviously, an old tavern that downtown Burlington grew around. When you walk in to Fred's, from the front door, you're immediately confronted with a large, antique wooden bar. Fully stocked, I'm certain it's a wonderful neighborhood hangout. However, the restaurant part is a bit confusing. Surrounding the bar are multiple wooden tables mounted to the wall. They're big enough where the must seat six. We were there for a quick lunch but didn't know whether to sit down and wait for a server or what. When nobody paid us any notice we chose to sit. Menus were at the table. After about 15 minutes of waiting, I noticed on the wall there is a small box with slips of paper and those little golf pencils. You pick what you want to eat and write it on the piece of paper. How do you do that? I'm no food server but I do know that different eateries have their own symbols and codes for the kitchen. I wrote, verbatim, our order from the menu. We waited, again, for somebody to come collect it. After more waiting I saw people coming in for take-out orders so I approached the woman behind the register. You fill out those slips, take them to the cashier. She rewrites them and forwards them to the kitchen. I paid at that time... but you don't have to. Even if you're familiar with their system, don't go there expecting a fast meal. From the time I gave the cashier the order to the time the hamburgers hit our table was 25 minutes! I was in the neighborhood for a meeting and figured I was going to have to eat in the cold food in the car afterwards. The fries, though cut from a real whole potato were good. They come unsalted, which I think is great, but they were on the table 20 minutes before our sandwiches. Nothing like filling up on the side dish before dinner's ready! I don't not recommend Fred's, just be aware of what you're...

Google Reviews TLDR Edition: Order- "Classic burger (half pound) with cheese and veg. Side of fries, side of onion rings." Price for meal: $15 USD (they accept cards and cash)

Burger: This is not the "Worlds best" by any standard. For a half pound burger the size is as it should have been. No flavor however. They claim to have this "house seasoning" but I guess they forgot where it was, or where the salt was for that matter. Burgers are cooked, "Medium well" unless specified. Well... It was well done. Fries: Don't bother. They have fresh cut fries, but everyone in the kitchen has never cooked or prepared fresh cut fries so they were (likely) thrown in the fryer and only fried once. They were hot, but soggy and bland. Onion Rings: The saving grace. These are probably not made in house, so they came out like they were supposed to. Hot, crispy, tender (whole) onion rings.

Took my order to go, waited about 14 minutes at the bar. Other patrons ordering drinks were getting them pretty quickly so as a bar they're doing pretty good. For anyone going here they also have this "unique" ordering method where an order card is filled out at your table then you bring it to the table to turn it in. If you don't do this you WILL NOT be served. They have no table servers. Drinks are picked up at the bar, you bring your order to the bar, and when the food is ready the bus staff brings the food.

6.5/ 10. Would...

Went in with my friends expecting a good fun night but was sadly disappointed and offended by the absurd hostility of the staff. A woman that I now know is the manager after looking at their website was extremely rude and hostile when we simply asked to pay for our checks separately. She acted as if we didn't know what we were talking about when we made a simple request. Hopefully she will be able to figure out how to separate checks with out a ridiculous attitude next time being that it's a pretty common request for "waitors" to tend to. I didn't catch the name or face of the other waitor but she was a different girl who took our order. My friends and I filled out the ticket as usual and took it up to the counter to order. Despite us writing everything down for the waitor she proceeded to make my friend read the entire ticket to her for some reason. She was extremely rude when my friend asked for pickles on her burger with a bratty tone informing her that it already has them with the burger. The staff was unnecessarily rude about every little detail of the experience of the restaurant. Would not recommend unless you want to feel unwelcome and experience some serious negative vibes while you eat some mediocre food. See ya neva...