Address:
White Castle 085006
3039 Scottsville Rd
Bowling Green, KY 42101
www.whitecastle.com
The Dish:
Sack Meal 1
With Cheese on Sliders
$5.65 (Tax and tip included)
Grade: 1 Fork
I have seen the movie and even laughed at the movie, but I don’t think you would find me going through similar adventures as Harold and Kumar go through to have White Castle. Waffle House though, maybe!
Ambiance: Fast food setup, order at counter, sit and munch if you like or take it with you. This White Castle had a setup where you picked your order up at a different station, as I understand it this is the traditional way to get White Castle. If that is so, the one I visited in Cincinnati in ’08 is breaking tradition and I do not support that. Otherwise restaurant was clean and cool on this hot spring day.
Menu/Price: Pretty inexpensive really, in fact I think I was supposed to be charged more for getting cheese on my Sliders but they were pretty busy so I did not bother, figuring maybe they will come out without cheese (they came with it). Anyway price point aside, if you want the traditional Slider and every variant of it (assuming you get just one of each) you can do this for under $10 easily. Depending on the tax and specials (the special of the day at this one was jalapeño sliders) you could almost do it under $7. If sliders aren’t your thing though, you can get a chicken ring slider. Otherwise there is not much else you can get besides sides here. I was disappointed that they did not have the sweet potato fries that I got last time I visited a White Castle in Minneapolis.
Meal: I have a friend who swears by White Castle and usually plans a trip each year to go to the nearest one as we do not have White Castle in Iowa. If I had to base it on this sack meal, I would be ok with going a few years before my next. The fries I got were room temperature at best, which is ok for McDonalds but for crinkle cut fries, it just does not work. The sliders were ok; I was wishing the cheese had melted on them a bit more though. All in all I think I would have been happier with six to eight sliders versus four and fries.
Service: They were pretty busy but keeping up with demand. The grill crew was defiantly feeling the elements of the heat, if you catch what I am implying there. There was no shortage of staff running around, but perhaps I came at a shift change. Of course if I did that would be odd since it was right smack dab dinner time.
Overall: It was ok, I only went because it was there. I really wanted to go to Waffle House but figured I should not just go to Waffle House every day because it was there. Being in the restaurant capital of the US, I figured I could at least try something different. 1 Fork because I’ll go again but I don’t know when.