King Kong Lincoln — Restaurant in Lincoln

The King Kong of Lincoln and I met paths on New Year’s Day when I was traveling through Nebraska. I heard of this joint through a friend who is an advocate of everything about the King Kong Burger. So without question I had to give the place a go. A description of the appearance of the establishment my friend had illustrated in my head struck me as too fictional to believe. Of course, as I drew closer, my doubt stood corrected. A mountainous gorilla on the welcome sign surprised me because of its unreal size and it isn’t everyday you see a gorilla in such a place. I was startled there was a drive thru but that is out of the scope of this assessment.

The earliest sensation I got when I stepped inside was the stench of the place. I got whiffs of the entire menu—steak, fries, GYROS. This place has cuisine range. But I was here to test the (should be) patented King Kong Burger. It was unclear where to order this dream of a sandwich but a friendly worker directed me to the register. Delighted, I asked for a “single Kong” with fries. I paid just shy of $20 for this… no drink! WOW, I thought. My friend better be right on this one or else he might as well become someone I only just used to know (joking of course, who could be that petty.) I waited for my meal in the dining area or should I say the theater. I was overcome with a smile as I saw the famous gorilla jungle band I had been told about. This place is such a treat.

Finally, after a reasonable wait time I picked up my food. I was in a time crunch so I departed and chowed down on this bad boy on the road. I didn’t observe the bathrooms so please enter at your own risk! In my truck, I was full of eagerness (and hunger.) When I opened my to-go box, I was hit with a wave of fry seasoning. Why was there so much fry seasoning? It was all on top too. I went for it anyway and grabbed a fry hidden in the seasoning. Believe me or don't believe me at all, but the seasoning didn’t overwhelm the fry one bit. It was tasty. After eating half the fries as a warmup, it was time to get into the main event. I took a carnivorous chomp into my single Kong. It was a burger alright. The patty tasted like it was seasoned with the same seasoning as the fries, which wasn’t too shabby, just a little disappointing. To get quantitative, the burger was an easy 6.9/10. My biggest concern wasn’t related to the meat. The pickles were hovering over the edge of horrific. I had to pick them off which is a bummer because to me pickles could go on anything. Shameful, but who cares. I definitely overate. There was $20 worth of food in that box for sure. All $20 of which was all in my stomach and behaving so-so until after about three hours when it took an even harsher turn. At that point, my stomach began giving a pulsing feeling. Only a hunched over position calmed this hullabaloo down. If I weren’t still in a truck on I-80, this would have been the perfect time to take a slumber on a couch with the Rose Bowl Game on.

All-embracing, I enjoyed my pit stop at the King Kong Burger in Lincoln. Certainly worth checking out when passing through. You really need to see it to believe it so make sure to take lots of pictures and a little...

My family and I have been on a trip from Colorado to Chicago, Illinois and on our way back we decided to try this "King Kong" place to try something new. Big mistake. My brother in law ordered for us even having lost his voice-he now sounds like batman. We ordered two kids meal hot dogs and three adult chicken tender meals. The cashier was telling us that because we were adults he could not sell us the drinks for the kids meals. The cashier was a native Spanish speaking American so my mother was trying to talk to him in Spanish, he rudely ignored her and was mainly focused on my brother in law. He refused to sell us the drinks in the same order which is outrageous. The menu was very unclear and confusing. Once we got our food, we went back to get drinks. We spent over $30+ dollars on apparently five KIDS meals when we specially wanted three ADULT meals and TWO kids meals. We spent another $7+ on just threw drinks. The place was very unsanitary and I'm question how this place is even open. My parents said the hot dogs were gross and hard as if they were old and left out and thrown into the microwave. The chicken tenders were absolutely atrocious and I have never been so disgusted. I will admit their fries are good but it does not cancel out the rudeness from the staff we were shown and the quality of the rest of the food. Please send the health department because they should not be open they are that terrible. I'm afraid of getting food poisoning from that place. Never eat here it is absolutely revolting. You could dig through McDonalds trash can and find...

I was in Lincoln for work and this was nearby my hotel. King Kong on the main signage towers at least 30 feet but probably higher and can be seen from the highway.

Very friendly staff when I walked in and I got the double burger combo. I had been thinking about a triple but glad I went double. The burger and patties are huge! A half pound each but it's a lot of food. They have extra large buns to accommodate and with the toppings it is actually a perfectly proportional burger just like double in size to what you would get anywhere else.

Burger, fries, and a drink will cost around $20 but you'll be full the rest of the day or night. They have other options I did not get but saw some other customers, one ordered a gyro which also looked great!

They have lots of King Kong posters on the walls and a small extension section for 2 human sized stuffed gorilla animals playing instruments for a fun atmosphere.

Highly recommend if just passing through for the novelty of it but if I lived in the area I'd probably eat here once a month for sure.

Some people say the pricepoint is high but $20 for this is exponentially better than a chain burger place and much better value than that same $20 at one of...