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Burger Delite
Categories: Restaurants Burgers Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Burgers, Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
5650 Edsall RdAlexandria, VA 22304
(703) 751-9692
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 5 am - 5 pm
Sat 6 am - 3:30 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Price Range:
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$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Breakfast
- Alcohol:
- No
- Drive-Thru:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
15 reviews for Burger Delite
15 reviews in English
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Review from Rob A.
Alexandria, VA
11/5/2009
I stopped by this place for lunch once. The menu is you basic greasy spoon-- even has scrapple for breakfast. The great things are not what is on the menu board , but the 8x11 pieces of paper with menu add ons taped to almost every surface between the door and register.
I thought about getting BBQ but got the Cheesburger Royal. I should have had the BBQ. The burger is fine, but they need to change the name to BBQ Delight for I fell misled by false advertising. Everyone who ordered the BBQ looked like they were enjoying their meal.
The fries are good --great potato wedges. To wash it all down I had a Orange Faygo. SWEET! -
Review from Ken R.
5/24/2012 1 Check-in Here
If you're nostalgic for a 60's/70's era diner experience, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. With glossed over, highly designed places like Silver Diner we tend to forget what a real greasy spoon diner of the 60's/70's era was like. Burger Delite will remind you. Its closed in, cramped, with the smell of grease and the feel of a light coating of grease everywhere from decades of deep fryer usage. Its definitely not the sterile, polished look of a modern day Silver Diner franchise resto.
I decided to have the half smoke sausage, the "north carolina" hush puppies and the mac and cheese. The half smoke lived up to its diner origins and was good enough but the hush puppies were the worst of industrial strength, mass produced fare. The mac and cheese was pretty standard, high volume, delivered in a 55 gallon drum fare as well.
As far as service, I wasn't in a hurry so it didn't bother me, but it was terribly inefficient and slow. Especially when you consider everything was most likely pre-cooked and just had to be nuked. If I were on my lunch break, I'd be annoyed. I don't think I'll be beating a path back to Burger Delite. -
Review from Henry C.
Alexandria, VA
8/7/2011
This place from the outside doesn't look very appetizing. The place never looks open and the parking lot is usually empty except for lunchtime. The design of the store and decorations doesn't make it attractive. But, after driving past this place thousands of times I decided to try it out, overall it was what I expected.
Some people love this place, and as you can read from the reviews some people don't care for it. This place can be great depending on what you order and what you expect. Personally, I'm a foodie so I expect food to taste good and be fresh. At this place the only good thing is the BBQ, everything else tastes worse than McDonalds. I'd rather have a burger from the Wendys just two blocks down than a burger from here. But, the BBQ is pretty decent. They use good spices and rubs for their BBQ.
I've also heard this from others who live near me, always go there when it's busy because the food is fresh. Never go during off hours. And, yes the customer service is lacking and "can" come with a side of attitude. But, as I said before you get what you expect :) -
Review from Michael M.
Alexandria, VA
12/31/2010
OK I'm all about simple menu's I don't need 400 choices. This place has too much selection, I went in and expected a small place that's only open for a small window during the Morning into the afternoon to have a straight forward Menu not to mention the fact its called BURGER DELIGTHT?!
Charity and I went in and we were standing in a line.. that made the expectation even higher **must be good if there is a line** then I heard the lady behind the counter barking orders and being slightly rude to the customers... again I thought this might just be schtick and not how the service really is... yep I was wrong across the board... SERVICE Non existent.. Food is average at best... price was the only thing that helped give it one star because its cheap. Past that McDonalds gets higher marks for EVERYTHING compared to Burger Delight...
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! -
Review from Frankie V.
Alexandria, VA
6/3/2009 5 photos
This place is pretty historic, it has been here since 1962 (says the non-biodegradable polystyrene cups). I have been here for both lunch and breakfast quite a few times now and I keep going back. I always get the BBQ pulled pork meal for $8.99. It includes seasoned fries and a drink. The fries are always made to order in my experience and they're pretty awesome. They're like 1/4 potato spears, so they're pretty big. I can only eat like 2 of them before I'm potatoed-out. They also have a lot of burgers on their menu. Notably, the "Cheeseburger Royale", which I can't help but to chuckle at being a 'Pulp Fiction' fan. They serve fresh brewed iced tea here. They also serve Sierra Mist, which I thought was worth mentioning because it is somewhat rare to find in restaurants.
The pulled pork here is not covered in barbecue sauce like you find at most places around here, this is Eastern-North Carolina BBQ. It is instead seasoned with pepper and vinegar. This is the first and only place where I've had North Carolina BBQ, but I think that its great and I keep going back for more.
For breakfast, I've only had their French Toast. It's pretty good and the price is great, only $3 for 3 slices of French Toast with "Buttery Margarine". To add bacon, or any other meat (sausage and scrapple are also available) it is an additional $5.99 which I find to be a little steep. I've had the bacon and it's nothing special, definitely not worth paying $6 for a few pieces of it. There is a number of other breakfast items available too.
One of their specialties is fresh baked peach and apple cobbler. I've only had the peach cobbler because they haven't had the apple cobbler when I've tried to order it in the past, but it was pretty good. I believe that it was about $2.35 for a small cup. I prefer apple over peach anyday though. I have also had a piece of their 3 layer choclate cake and I thought that it was really good. I couldn't help but to think that it kind of looked like the chocolate cake from the movie Matilda. You know, the one the cafeteria lady used her own "blood, sweat, and tears" to make.
The hours here are a bit unusual, but the food is worth the effort to get here when its open.
On the contrary to what some of the other reviews here say, they DO accept credit cards here, I just used mine here this morning. I have even posted a picture of the Visa/MasterCard stickers on the door.
This place is definitely worth giving a try! -
Review from Andrew E.
Alexandria, VA
8/31/2010
Maybe you have to be a long time local to appreciate it here. We tried the NC pork bbq. It was like pork-mush-soup-something. Pretty gross overall (but I've heard that's the consistency of NC bbq, so maybe it's just right if you like that sorta thing).
Didn't like their onion rings...out of a freezer bag and overly breaded with the not-so-good type of breading. Again, you might like them, but we did not.
Strange enough,due to the location I might actually go back and try a burger someday, or even walk over for breakfast on a weekend. Until then, I'm sticking with the 2-star review b/c I've definitely experienced better. -
Review from John B.
Alexandria, VA
6/2/2009
I think people are confusing this place with the VERY skanky Weenie Beenie joint that is truly at Four Mile Road in Shirlington. That is a dump and full of casual day laborers hanging out everywhere.
Burger Delight is certainly not fancy but they do have a HUGE menu and they are open early for working people who are more labor than office types. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Cheapish food here-def something from the past. Check it out. Near Home Depot and directly behind the very swanky Cameron Station neighborhood. -
Review from Dominic C.
Denver, CO
1/5/2009
Can't believe this place hasn't been reviewed yet. This is the best place in the D.C. area to get pulled pork BBQ - strictly a locals spot...maybe that's why there's no yelp reviews so far. You can get it by the sandwich or if you place an order ahead of time, you can get tubs of it to go if you're throwing a party. Great slaw as well. Not to be missed if you're a BBQ head. They do have weird hours though - not open late at all.
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Review from Dave W.
Alexandria, VA
8/8/2010
For such a small place it makes you wonder how they can have such a wide selection and still deliver good tasting food. They are fast also even when the line is out the door.
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Review from Jason S.
Falls Church, VA
1/27/2011
great ribs. the food selection is crazy a lot of choices. the fish sandwich was off the hook. nice and boneless. the mac and cheese was whack coleslaw also whack...... i only can give them three for the ribs and the hush puppies if you order that a make some good arroz con gandules you got yourself a nice meal...
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Review from Team K.
Alexandria, VA
6/1/2011
Low quality burgers that were like little hockey pucks. Generic ketchup loaded with corn syrup. A general grease fest.
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Review from Mark A.
Durham, NC
2/27/2009
I love to find those "locals only" spots. When I was visiting my girlfriend in Alexandria, I wanted something quick, easy, tasty and not too expensive. When looking for a place on here (yelp) I came across this place. Being from NC, I had to check out this wonderful bbq I was hearing about. Everything I had was much better than I expected, esp. the spicy potato wedges. The ONLY reason I did not give this place 5 stars was because of the service. I guess one cannot expect too much from a place like this but at the same time, why not? There were 3 people in front of me and the woman behind the counter was already asking me what I wanted. Being my first time there, I wanted to see what they had, actually see the bbq ( the guy in front of me ordered it) and maybe ask a question or two. Nothing on their menu was labled with condiments or what came on things. I finally got my food, a bbq sand. & a cheeseburger, and went homw. I must say, it was really good. The burger was no Five Guy's but was still better than anything else I have had in this area. I would definatly reccomend this place and will definatly go back.
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Review from Don B.
Alexandria, VA
12/12/2010
Mixed opinion about this place. Nice local feel. This is definitely not a chain restaurant. The bbq sandwich was quite good but the platter is a bit expensive. I found it really difficult to hear and understand the order taker and the overall noise level is quite high. Their order fulfillment process was pretty chaotic but I guess that just adds to the overall ambience that this is a truly local haunt. This should be a refreshing change for anyone who disparages the chainification of our society.
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Review from Samantha J.
Washington, DC
10/18/2009
What a disappointment! I was so looking forward to trying this place, as I love local spots and detest the big chains. When we got there, the people behind the counter kept hounding us on what we wanted while we were clearly still trying to decide. Then they yelled at us because we were "standing in the wrong spot" while waiting for our food. And cheap it is not. Almost $10 for a cheese steak, fries and pop. And there was hardly any meat on the sandwich, it was all lettuce and tomato. If I'm going to take that kind of abuse from the staff, and pay that much for a sandwich, I at least want some substance to the sandwich!
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Review from gene c.
Ashburn, VA
8/14/2009
Digusting food!!!! I ordered the grossly overpriced pulled pork combo, which cost a whopping 9 bucks and change. You get a nice generic hamburger bun ala (cosco) along with a serving of stale warm pork, mmmmmm. With the combo, don't forget your potatoe wedges, same ones from Jerry's down the street with a nice fountain drink. For that price, I'd go to Fuddruckers. After an hour of ingesting this mess, I actually become weaker and fatigued rather than energetic.
