Cobie’s Drive-In

Let me start off by saying two things. One, if you are health-​food conscious or watching your weight, AVOID COBIE’S. Two, if you are skittish about rougher neighborhoods or sketchy patrons where you’re eating, avoid Cobie’s.
Cobie’s is a convenience store primarily, and it also cashes checks, so on payday this place is more packed than sardines in a can and you may be mingling with a rougher crowd than you’re used to due to its location in a bad neighborhood. I’ve never felt ‘unsafe’ there, but there have been incidents in the past and I would not recommend leaving your personal items unattended, etc.
However, Cobie’s is a delicious greasy-​spoon lunch counter which specializes in burgers and fried foods. Don’t look here for grilled chicken or anything else that might be helpful to your waistline; the food here is as bad as it gets, but utterly sinfully delicious. The burgers involve the line cooks hand-​forming patties out of hamburger meat and slapping it on a large grill; the food is so greasy that it often soaks through the wrapper and clean through to the paper bag they give you to carry it. I don’t even want to imagine how many calories are in a meal from here. But the prices are dirt cheap— you can get a double bacon cheeseburger for like $ 4 and it’ll be one of the best greasy burgers you’ll ever eat. The rest of the menu involves things they can dunk in a deep fryer, including fries, tater tots, onion rings, and corndogs. The tots and fries are always perfectly golden and crunchy, never soggy or undercooked. And because the place is also a convenience store, you can get any drink you want, plus a bag of chips or a candy bar to round out your burger if you would rather have that than the fries or tots.
I recommend Cobie’s highly because it’s a home-​cooked burger, not the mass-​produced thawed-​out patties of places like McDonald’s or Burger King. If you like your burgers full of flavor and coronary trauma, definitely check this place out; however, it’s best to only have it as a once-​in-​a-​blue moon treat, and not on paycheck-​cashing days.