Bobby’s Hideaway Cafe (Revisited) – Carlsbad, CA
The start of the football season has prompted the end of the official UBR hiatus. To get back in the game we decided to do a warm-up with a re-visit of Bobby’s in Carlsbad. Last time we went to Bobby’s we enjoyed a great burger and thought what a great way to start the season off. We found the burgers to still be delicious, but still had the same slight imperfections as last time such as the meat patty of yumminess could have been a tich thicker and the burger to bun ratio a tich better. While the slight imperfections remained, it was clear Bobby’s staff are fans of UBR and almost instantaneously recognized the UBR staff as the celebrities they are. Hey Bobby’s! Let us know if you would like some burger consulting! It will only cost you free burgers. Most establishments would pay in the 10’s of dollars for such valued input and direction.
The group was excited to invite the newest member of the Marketing team, Megan, to be the guest reviewer this week. For some reason Mike felt he constantly had to apologize to Megan for everything including his whining, language, and overall personality. Her husband, James, had been asked several times last year but was too busy “working” to experience the honor of the UBR guest spot. Clearly James is not smart enough to pass a simple intelligence test. Moreover, apparently he doesn’t think it’s cool since nothing will top his past Prom King status at his high school class of 10 people. Even with that low class number we at UBR are pretty sure it was a mercy thing and they just felt sorry for him.
Pretty much everything about the restaurant has stayed exactly the same over the last year, in fact, it’s probably been the same for the last 30 years, but that’s part of what makes Bobby’s a cool and eclectic burger stop. The pictures of random semi-famous people like Bob Villa line the whitewashed walls throughout the restaurant and are grouped into mini themes. Mike was happy to see the representation of some sort of sport memorabilia as he was going through Sport Center withdrawals from the lack of TV. There was a special kid’s corner which probably would have suited Troy better but we didn’t let him play because he could have choked on stuff. An added bonus was the free WIFI which Troy found extremely exciting and distracting throughout the entire review process. Lastly, the UBR staff was excited to see someone flushed the crap in the crappy crapper that we noted on the last review.
