We decided to try Melt Gourmet Burgers on Sunday, February 18th, 2024, around 1:30pm. The reason for it was that per Google, this is the best burger place in Northern Virginia.

Maybe the hype and expectations lead to a bit of a disappointment unfortunately. Or maybe it was the choice, 3 x standard cheeseburger + one kid’s meal + chilly cheese fries and a good sized brownie. What I mean by that is there’s a ton of different choices that may have changed our rating but we wanted to compare the standard cheeseburger. Or maybe it was just our very ‘special’ experience.

Let’s get to it.

First of all the place is so busy that we had to wait for good 20 minutes in a long line to place our order. That wouldn’t be a problem if the rest of the experience was great. Anyway, be prepared for a long line.

Now, relatively quickly after placing our order /10 minutes/, they delivered the food to us, still waiting on a table for 4, while standing in the middle of the restaurant.

So holding onto our drinks, trays with food in our hands, waiting for someone to see us and maybe move out of their tables to let us eat ours, weird feeling when you hold your freshly made burger on a tray in one hand, your drinks and cups in the other one but cannot eat eat cause there’s no space.

After about 4-5 minutes a family finishing their food decided to move out so we moved right in.

My wife cleaned the table cause there was no one who was available to do so.

Somehow weird but let’s get to the food itself.

Please see the pictures for yourself. Looks pretty good I assume.

If you’ve been to some gourmet burger places, not restricted to Northern Virginia, then this, again ordering traditional cheeseburgers mostly, is not that special. It’s fine, I would say we generally recommend it but it’s nothing super special. The homemade bun definitely is though! Chilly cheese fries are average. No meat, or hardly to find in the mix.

Recap, we have to give it another try to see if the more special burgers make us change it to 5 stars.

For now, I think we were very generous with 4.