The Bottom Line
The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler closed in May 2011.
A meal at The Heart Attack Grill won't damage your wallet as much as it will your arteries. Two of us had Double Bypass Burgers, fries and a bottle of water. Excluding tip the bill came to about $14 each.Pros
- The offer what they advertise
- A gimmick that gets attention
- All you can eat fries
Cons
- Exists strictly for the gimmick
- What? No dessert?
Description
- A Quadruple Bypass Burger is said to have about 8,000 calories. I assume that's with cheese on it. Or not. Who cares.
- The record as of this writing (11/08) for timed consumption of a Quadruple Bypass Burger was less than 2 minutes.
- The guy sitting next to me today took over 7 minutes to eat his. Slacker.
- The Heart Attack Grill does not provide an itemized listing of your bill. You have to trust that it is correct or ask.
- The Heart Attack Grill serves beer and liquor.
- Best thing about The Heart Attack Grill: Cold Coca Cola in bottles.
Guide Review - The Heart Attack Grill
Jon Basso gets 5 stars for having a gimmick, nerve, and marketing skills. He doesn't pretend to have a great restaurant. In fact, he doesn't care if you like it or not, as long as people are curious enough to come and pay to eat.
It gets somewhere between 0 and 5 stars for attitude -- 0 for the blatant sexism of hiring young busty women who wear shorts that are skimpier than the ones at Hooters, or 5 stars, if you enjoy that sort of thing. I couldn't help but wonder if some of the patrons could tell the difference between the real female employees and the busty mannequins.
The Heart Attack Grill gets 1 star from me for comfort. Some or all of the videos online depict the place when it was in Tempe, and your food came in baskets and there were tables and maybe even utensils. Now that it has moved to Chandler, all the seating is at a bar (trough?). There are no tables.
The menu consists of only four "dishes": a burger (single bypass), a bigger burger (double bypass), a huge burger (triple bypass) and a disgustingly huge burger (quadruple bypass). I had a double, about a pound of beef served medium well. It was juicy, to be sure. There is only one side dish offered: fries fried in lard. The place gets 0 stars for being proud of the fact that they don't offer lettuce or diet drinks. They get 4 stars from me for the fresh tomato slices (hey, that's healthy, ya know!) fresh sliced onions, pickles and jalapeños at the help-yourself condiment area.
The Heart Attack Grill gets 2 stars from me for presentation. Both burgers and fries come in those small paper containers. Napkins are scratchy paper towels from bathroom-style dispensers.
So how many stars is that?
