Monrovia Burgers Blog Introduction

For this, our inaugural post on a blog that represents a quest to eat more cow in the handsome little burg that is Monrovia, California, then write about the many gastro-experiences and rate the various patty-based meals, my good friend David Galvan and I have chosen to start with an especially familiar establishment at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue, (Monrovia’s Times Square, Haight and Ashbury or Hollywood and Vine, perhaps,)  T Phillips Ale House. 

 

The idea behind this blog is one born of a certain hunger.  David and I have been spending a great deal of time, (and money,) eating in Monrovia for years.  We enjoy the restaurants as well as the relative proximity of those centered around Myrtle Avenue, in part for the sheer charm and quality anyone can see and experience first-hand and also in part because it is close to my home and so, walking distance.  Our plan is to eat and score a burger from every eatery that sells one within the city limits at an ideal rate of one per week roughly until we have consumed them all.  In turn we hope to pass on a fair and valuable accounting of what our readers might expect if they happened into any of these same places in search of the great, American Hamburger.

 

We score burgers in three areas: Taste,Presentation, and Setting, though Taste is heavily weighted compared to the other two considerations.  Every burger we taste will receive a numerical score from 1-100.