Five Guys food review - LP Eats
For the 10th an final LP Eats review as part of our second season on the hunt for Preston's top burger, we went down to Five Guys on National Burger Day to try it out and finalise our rankings...
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00:00Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the latest LP Eats video. The final one in our series
00:10looking for the very best burger in Preston. Now I have just walked a considerable distance
00:16across Preston from our offices in the centre out to Retail Park to come and try Five Guys.
00:25Now that is the final one we'll be reviewing on our list of places just over the way over
00:30behind me now. So we're going to head over there, try some Five Guys, see how we're getting
00:34on, complete our review series and officially crown the best burger in Preston. So let's
00:39head over, try it out, see what it's like.
00:40Hi all, my name's Jack Marshall and welcome to the latest and final LP Eats video in
00:59our season looking for Preston's top burger. Now, as you'll know, we've been to a vast
01:05array of different places so far on our journey to try and find the very best burger in Preston.
01:10Everywhere from kind of proper local classic takeaways where you can get doner and chips
01:15to all kind of like fancier up and coming sit down restaurants in the middle of town
01:20on Cheapside, places like that, where you're sitting down for a kind of very fancy burger
01:25where, you know, dab your lips with a napkin kind of thing. We've tried everything, including
01:30Maccies, which rated very poorly. But anyway, so final one today. It was National Burger
01:35Day when I went down to try this, so it kind of tied in really nicely celebrating National
01:38Burger Day with the final burger in our series to try and tie a little bow on the entire
01:42season and crown the best burger in Preston, having tried the top 10 based on kind of your
01:49recommendations and Google ratings. And we went down to Five Guys. So yeah, we went down
01:55to Five Guys on the Deepdale Retail Park. And yeah, first things first, the kind of
02:00vibe in there was good. They always have kind of nice decor, classic American diner kind
02:04of vibes. Lots of families in there, so they were all kind of having a nice time. Kids
02:08seemed happy enough. It was nice. I'm going to give them a 3.5 out of 5 for the vibe because
02:12it was just, yeah, it was fine. That was it. There was a bit of a long wait, I guess, for
02:18the food, given that it's supposed to be fast food, but that's how it goes. 3.5 out of 5
02:23for that. Now on to the burger itself. As people will know from Five Guys, they're kind
02:29of like the burgers are, you know, the price and then you can add your extras on for free.
02:33So I went for extra onions, pickles and American mustard. So we'll get on to the extras in a minute.
02:40But the meat itself, it was all right. It was a little dry, I've got to say. It didn't
02:46blow me away. It had that nice classic beefy flavour to it, which was really missing in
02:49something like the Mackey's one, which is a, you know, like a similar fast food, not
02:53similar fast food place, but it's a fast food place. Five Guys slightly leveled up from
02:56that. So it had a nice meaty taste to it, but it was lacking in that proper packs of
03:01punch, moisture, juicy down the chin, you know, like, oh, yeah, it's a proper burger.
03:04I mean, it's stuck into this. It was lacking that, I've got to say. So I'm giving it three
03:08out of five for that. It just needed more juiciness. That's all it was missing. The
03:12flavour was nice. Give me something more. That's all I wanted. Moisture. Like I say,
03:17it didn't help that the burger patties themselves weren't that juicy. But despite having like
03:24pickles, which, you know, bring like a crisp coolness to it and the American mustard and
03:28stuff, the whole thing, it just needed something to bring it together. And I do think that is
03:32just juicy meat. It needed juicy meat to bring it all together. I'm giving it a two point five
03:37out of five for the overall moisture because it didn't blow me away. It was OK. I did notice
03:43that it just wasn't it wasn't as juicy as you want it to be. And fundamentally, that's what
03:46we're marking on. So, yeah, two point five out of five on that. Extras. I'm giving a five out
03:53of five for extras because I got fries with it and they were absolutely loads. I have never been
03:59served this many fries with a fast food meal ever. Like I got to the end and I was like, I've got to
04:04throw some of these away because I mean, it's just there were loads of them. There were absolutely
04:08loads of them. I was stuffed. And they were nice fries as well. They were really, really good fries.
04:13So that was a positive. And also, like I say, the extras that you can add onto the burger yourself.
04:17That's a nice touch. All good. So, yeah, five out of five on that. We've touched on the vibe of the
04:22place. Coming on to value. Now, the whole thing, it cost me £16.90, which is a lot of money. That
04:27is a lot of money. Not getting that much change from twenty quid for a burger and fries. No drink.
04:33I didn't get a drink, so I wasn't that bothered about a drink. That's not great value in my eyes,
04:39given that fries are pretty cheap to produce and the burger didn't blow me away. Now, that's the
04:45most expensive meal we've covered on LPE by, I'd say, quite a distance. So I'm giving them value of
04:51value rating of two out of five for that. Like I say, it didn't really knock my socks off.
04:56But yeah, overall score of 16 out of 25. So yeah, anyone who's been keeping score and watching
05:01knows that we will now have been able to crown our LPEs winner. It's very tight between two at the
05:06top. One has just edged it by 0.5 of a mark. So congrats to that certain establishment, which we
05:12will be heading back to to try and see what they have to say about being crowned best burger
05:17impression. But yeah, thanks for watching this review. Thanks for watching the entire series.
05:20The entire season of LPEats. Join us again soon. We'll be covering another kind of genre of food,
05:25another type of food. Let us know what you think it should be. We're leaning towards some,
05:28but we're always open to suggestions. And then when we do reveal it, please,
05:32please get in touch. Tell us where your favorite places are. Tell us where the best spots are in
05:35precedent to go and get these types of food. So yeah, thanks for watching again. Stay tuned
05:39for more coverage on LPEats of local eateries and cheers. Have a nice day.