In-n-Out Burger
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 10:30 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m.
Sun 10:30 a.m.-1:00 a.m. - Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: No
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: Yes
- Alcohol: None
11 reviews
San Jose, CA
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31 Reviews for In-n-Out Burger
To be fair, I'm picky about beef --- so when it's USDA Organic I'll be really looking forward to my burger (protein style, LT Only, Grilled onions). Until then I'm stuck with Neapolitan shakes - really if you haven't, you MUST. It's the perfect blend and where else can you get a frozen, yummy treat for $2, really! I waver on the fries, they're ok - my hubby loves them 'light'
This location (like all the others) has great customer service, I almost always go inside to order. There are a couple of outside tables overlooking the parking lot and ElCamino... not too exciting, but outside if that's your thing.
I heart you....you beautiful hunk of flesh. Thank you for making my lunch hour a little nicer and for making me feel like a 17-year old school girl when I come in and you sweetly ask me if I want ketchup with those fries and a wink. *sigh*
**WAKE UP***
Yes I have a teensy weensy crush on one of the dreamy boys that works there but I am probably old enough to be his Mama Ha! Ha!
The food here rocks, the service is excellent and its always clean. I ordered my cheeseburger today animal-style and it was gooooood! I am not a huge fan of the fries but they curb that salty fix that I need. The milkshakes here are delish and I order them occasionally when I don't mind running the risk of having a lactose intolerance freakout session.
Its cool that they have someone at the drive-thru to take your order. I really hate yelling into one of those speaker boxes so talking to a human being is a huge plus for me.
The parking...well now that is another story...but it's not entirely their fault so I can't take away stars for that.
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Like any other IN&OUT, there all the same. Food is always good lines are always long as ever so if you plan on getting your food faster than McDonalds its not gonna happen. But thats why its soo good is because they make you smell it for 15min then serve you.
I love taking out of towners to In-n-out. After one visit, they only want to eat there for the rest of their stay here. In case you've never tried it, order the Animial Style Fries.
Went here for Valentine's day with my best gal. Love the animal style fries, no onions. Sometimes they mess up my funny order, but my first non-vegetarian meal was here so I am forever indebted to the Double Double.
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Whenever I get to Mountain View for a week of whatever nonsense, this is my standard on-way-to-hotel filth destination. I drink my vanilla milkshake in the car, and then eat the cheeseburger and fries (well done) in bed.
Gross. But great.
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Kudos to the first In-n-Out on the Peninsula, pioneering out past Gilroy into uncharted new territory. Gotta give 'm brownie points just for that.
Convenient locale to boot: there are not many other fast food places off 101 on the Peninsula which are as easy to get off to and on from. In comparison, try getting on and off at University to the Taco Bell near Ikea. Not so easy, huh?
So much fresher and straight forward in comparison with any other burger joint around. My favorite afternoon pick-me-up is a chocolate shake and fries. I get a hankering just thinking about it.
N.B. Ask for no onions on your burger if you are on your way to a customer meeting.
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This is just like any other In N Out I've been to. I will give it to them for consistency. I recommend you go for the burgers. I'm not a huge fan of the fries or the shakes, but the burgers are fresh, greasy, and delicious. A double-double, animal style, always hits it on the spot for me.
This one is on El Camino, unlike pretty every other In N Out I've been to. I call this one a secret In N Out, but it's really not that secret of a location. :)
I simply can't thank the Fast Food Gods enough for In-n-Out. If you must eat a quick burger and fries then this is the place to do it. Yes, there's way, way, way better food to be had. But Chez Snottynose isn't going to give you a spiffy lapmat at the drive-through.
The In-n-Out equation is simple:
* the menu is so simple it's deceiving
* the food is good, make that "better" than other fast food burger chains
* the servers are, um, ok... brace yourselves... genuinely NICE!
Speaking of nice, WTF is with the niceness? It's a bit over the top, don't you think? Like maybe they've been brainwashed? I mean, what if I WANT a kick-ass cheeseburger with some grilled onions but I want to be served by some disaffected high schooler who really doesn't care about my grilled f&%#ing onions? Guess I'll have to suffer through the niceness.
WTF about this location? C'mon... these places are cookie cutter copies of each other. They're all about the same. I'm just glad it's close to work so I don't have to be away from my desk for too long.
Order the burgers, order the fries. Try a milk shake if you're into that. And Google the secret menu... it'll make you feel like an insider.
So.... the only reason anyone has to visit the Silicon Valley besides for a job interview or to visit Stanford is really to go to In-N-Out. Honestly, that's what I tell all my friends. If nothing else, they have to have In-N-Out or their California experience is incomplete. So on that note, I'd like to remind people that this review of mine is for all In-N-Outs in general, not just this specific one in Mountain View. This one just happens to be the one closest to my apartment.
Almost everywhere I've gone I've heard hype about In-N-Out, and now every where I go I hype it, because, unlike almost all the other places I've been to, this is the one place that has actually consistently lived up to the hype. As my friend would put it, "It is a life-changing burger." So the trick with In-N-Out is that there's almost like a menu not on the menu. Naturally the most well known is that the size of the burger can be exponentially increased. Normally a double-double (aka a double cheeseburger) is enough for most people, but for the more adventurous, triple-triples, quadruple-quadruples are all available on order (I'm sure they'll charge more, it's basically # of burger patties-slices of cheese). Burgers can also be ordered protein style which is simply a lettuce bun instead of a bread one. I personally prefer animal style which is a special thousand island style sauce with grilled onions. Regardless, whenever you go to Cal, get someone who's been to go with you to In-N-Out, and you will have your life-changing burger experience.
PS The fries are just shredded potatoes in a deep-fryer, it's a special type of potatoe from like Canada, but I can't remember the name of it. They are good too. Also available animal-style.
I've lost my faith in In-n-Out.
Maybe it's the white plastic tables and the chairs that are bolted to the floor.
Maybe it's that the kids working here are suspiciously too nice.
Maybe it's the feeling that I'm walking into a feeding factory where Americans blindly go to get fattened up. I know there are aliens hovering above In-n-Outs patiently waiting to teleport us up and serve us for dinner. I just know it.
Maybe it's the name, In-n-Out, that goes against the ancient wisdom of my ancestors who sat around an open fire and held hands and sang songs of thanks, and asked for strength in battle with their enemies before savoring a buffalo leg succulent from a crackling fire and enjoyed in a wide open plain of gently rolling grass.
Maybe it's the name In-n-Out: without the time to spell out 'and'--more of an abbreviated description of the digestive process than a temple for your daily bread. A name that removes reasons you have a meal: to replenish your body with food and nurture relationships with conversation over a meal.
And in the tradition of a mechanized meal where the fries are pounded out with unthinking assembly-line efficiency are the biblical messages printed on greasy wrappers asking us to blindly eat but not to think.
This under the rim of the milkshake cup, Proverbs 3:5: 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.'
Hardly something I'd want at my last supper, much less my next.
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Damn you, In-n-Out Burger.
Damn you for
Your clean restaurants
Your kind-mannered staff
Damn you, In-n-Out Burger, for
Your focus on just the basics
Your fresh-cut fried potatoes
Your clean uniforms
Damn you, In-n-Out Burger, for
Your strawberry shakes, pink as puppy toungues
And for making me wait until I, too, begin to shake.
Damn you, In-n-Out Burger, for
Not holding back on just the right amount of grease
And for paying your employees something resembling a living wage
Damn you, In-n-Out Burger, for
My burgeoning man-boobs, gently jiggling as I ride over your speed bump.
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I decided to stop by my local In N out for lunch today for my weekly cheap and good burger fixing.
I ordered my usual Cheeseburuger w/ Onions and French Fries with a cup of Water. I noticed that the prices on their menu went up by ~10 - 20 cents per item since my last visit, a couple weeks ago.
My new total was $3.44, which I gave to the uniformed lady at the drive through. I must say that although I was like 10th in line when I arrived. I was greeted by another uniformed order taker at the end of the line and I most likely received my order in less than 5 minutes!
Yay for In N Out!:D
**Update: 10/31/07**
I stopped by for lunch at the Drive Thru for my In N Out fixing. As I was approaching the first window to pay, I noticed the worker was wearing latex gloves...wtf?
As I approached the first window, I saw him in full In N Out uniform, In N Out jacket, and latex gloves...that were all YELLOW at the palms and finger tips...NASTY!
I went so far to ask him "why the latex gloves?" The worker, Juan, stated on the receipt, stated that he didn't want to touch the money that might be dirty....but his gloves were all yellow after his sweaty hands wearing them gloves for who knows how long...
I didn't have much appetite for lunch afterwards...
How can you really write a bad review about a place that turns a spud into a little plate of fries while you wait?
and the burgers are just so damn good.
Get the double double monster style - you won't regret it.....unless you are allergic to honest to god quality food.
mmmmmmmmmmm......buuuuurrrgeeerrrrrss.....(slobber slobberslobber)
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In-N-Out Burger joint is one of the best out there. Many times better than McDonald's.
Price - so reasonable
Food quality - good
Place - quite clean
I especially like the fresh cut fries !!
I think I had water and fries here last night to sober up after a wild Wednesday night. Yum, and I would venture to say less crowded than the Rengstorff location. Can't beat their fries!
UPDATE 6/13/2007:
Came here for lunch and it was UUUUUUBER crowded. Where did all these high school kids come from? I guess that's summer vacay for you.
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Ok... I think I'm almost out of the woods... Having lived practically across the street from this place for almost 2.5 years, I can say that I'm not a regular here... doesn't mean that whenever I drive by with the top down, that the smell makes me want to stop.. .I've just been able to refuse it.
who knows... after I move, I'll prolly be craving this stuff like mad.
I've eaten my fair share of Mc D's, Taco Bell. KFC, In n Out etc .... at some point in your lives hopefully you'll wake up to how bad this food is for you and for the planet ....
i don't have time to lecture you all, but try reading this book .. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" .... in the mean time, enjoy those burgers...they taste soooo good !
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Double double animal style is pretty standard for me when i am craving salty, greasy, super fresh soft bun, hamburger. I am easily 2 - 3 times the age of most of the people here around midnight... i don't think i have ever been here any earlier. When you need a quick HIT after drinking this is a great place to go.
5 stars for Rose!!! maybe 4.5 for in-n-out!! The wait here seems to be less than most locations and the food is always consistent.
I would have guessed it used to be a jack in the crack from the building and setup, but In-n-out has done a good job making do with what they got... I attribute that to the staff. Keep up the great work!
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In-N-Out Burger is by far my fast food restaurant of choice without a doubt! Their motto, "Quality you can taste" is most definitely true.
In case most of you are unaware, they have a "SECRET MENU". It consists of animal style burgers(mustard cooked into the meat, pickles, grilled onions and extra spread added), animal style fries(cheese melted on top, grilled onions and spread added), 3x3(3 meat patties and 3 pieces of cheese), 4x4(4 meat patties and 4 pieces of cheese), veggie burger(no meat patty; bun and condiments), grilled cheese(no meat patty; bun, cheese and condiments), flying dutch man(meat patty and cheese only), protein style(instead of bun, burger is wrapped in lettuce). Aside from your choice of raw or grilled onions, they also offer whole grilled onions(sauteed slices of onion). Don't forget to top your order off with a root beer float(vanilla shake mix and root beer combined)!!
My personal favorite is a double single(2 meat patties and one slice of cheese) with both raw and grilled onions with ketchup and mustard instead of the sauce, add pickles and sometimes protein style.
Have any questions? Don't hesitate to ask! I'm employed at In-N-Out and I know the menu inside and out.
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In n Out is probably the best burger chain restaurant I have ever been to. My favorites are the 3 by 3 animal style, animal style fries, and Neapolitan shake. In n Out is clean, well staffed, and fresh . . . . definitely would recommend this over Jack In the Box or Taco Bell, etc. This location always seems to be crowded late at night and at meal times. No complaints except that sometimes the meat seems undercooked a little bit. Get a dorky In n Out hat too if its your first time . . .you will be the envy of all your friends.
All In N' Outs are basically the same in terms of the food, so I'm judging them pretty much on cleanliness and service. This place always has horrid drive thru waits, so I'm never doing that again. The place is clean but there always seems to be a bit of a wait. Still, when you need In N' Out, you gotta have In N' Out. And the fries animal style there are always GINORMOUS!
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I LOVE In & Out burger and I used to work at one of the local locations back when I was younger, but this location has a bit to be desired.
I would recommend that if it is during the lunch or dinner rush that you go to another location. I don't think they have ever gotten my order correct and they are really slow. Today I had to return my burger 2x's 1st they did not put cheese on my CHEESE burger, then after they slapped on some cheese they left off my onions. The girl forced in some onion without even unwrapping it........ Im sorry but if a burger was returned wrong when I worked for the company we made it over....fresh and hot.
Just be aware that this location does not seem to have as high quality.
What? In-n-Out again?
Well, yes. Yesterday was because I just had a craving for their burgers, today is because my car is @ American Tires just across the road. And whatever was true yesterday still applies today. Yum!
Double-Double Animal Protein Style, with cheese. That's my order. I don't really care or like their fries. The milkshake is good.
This location has a bad parking, bad configuration, park far, park very far. Avoid door dings or being stuck in the drive-in queue.
The place can get crowded during peak hours, so avoid or wait; your choice.
The Drive-Thru backs up at lunch and actually causes a traffic problem turning off Grant Avenue onto little Oak Lane. They still do their best to get people through quickly.
Vegan Report: In-n-Out doesn't offer a veggie burger (though I am forever hopeful), but you can order a "veggie burger" and they will give you lettuce, tomato and onion (sliced, not grilled on the meaty grill) on a bun. You have to specify no sauce, which has mayo in it. I love the fries, though others are less thrilled.
In-n-Outs are pretty much all the same but this one gets downgraded for its parking lot. I swear, I have nearly gotten hit many times getting into it as well as the awkward way into the drive-thru.
Times visited: 20+
Well, I guess Iif you haven't figured it out yet but, I have a slight kryptonic weakness for the good old fashion Americana iconic hamburger joint. And In-n-Out Burger is what us East Coast people have been missing out on all these years. Hmmmm, if only... But back to point. This place is a little slice of throw back, good eats, and Hella friendly service. Everything is fresh and the "hidden secret hand shake" (which are good as well) menus are worth testing out. Check out this link: http://www.in-n-out.co.... I always get a Double, animal style, with onions. And for under $2.50, what can I say but In-n-Burger is the best that this Fast Food Nation has to offer. If you ever have that fever for a quick burger and cheap, and just fortunately be in the 3 state area that they exist, well stop and get In-n-Out with some good meats. Chow.
the vibe inside always weirds me out, but i love getting take out from in-n-out.
when i'm hungry:
the #2
when i'm starving:
cheeseburger, animal style fries, diet coke
perfection
Animal style Cheese Burger + Vanilla Shake... A can't beat combo.. The best is the assurance that the food is fresh and with less preservatives.
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