Acme Burger Company

Stumbled across this burger joint during World Pride as we were all starving and wanted to eat some food where we could sit in the shade.
I got the 4oz burger which was a great size for me, it was delicious! Great seasonings on the patty and great condiments.
My only complaint about the burger was that they have 3 sizes of burgers, 4oz, 6oz and 8oz, but all the same size of bun for all 3 burgers, so a good chunk of my burger was bun.
Fries were delicious, drinks were kinda small but refreshing.
The place was crowded being world pride and all but I was able to nab a booth just as a group of people were leaving.
I’d definitely come back again!

The service was pretty shoddy. They got my order wrong. I sent it back, they fixed their mistake. I got back the same meal, this time COLD! I paid $ 14 for a burger, fries and a drink. I expected more. They may make a ton of money during PRIDE but this local will not be back!

Really rad drunk food. My friends and I always make a point to stop in after the bars to mow down on some veggie burgers. The staff is either really friendly or extremely rude but in all fairness this place can be PACKED with stupidly drunk people.
It’s always pretty clean, nothing special. I would only stop here for drunk food to be honest. The prices are pretty average for a for a burger joint. The food is amazing when you’ve had a couple shots of tequila. They have good toppings, sauces. Nothing to complain about.

Had the roast beef sandwich. Not nearly enough meat for the size of the bun meant that after three bites all I was left with was a hand full of bun and toppings. Pretty lame considering the $ 17 price tag with fries and a drink. Fries weren’t anything to write home about and were undercooked. Maybe the burger is better, I don’t know and probably won’t ever bother to find out.

many a time ive stumbled out of crews & tangos here, too drunk, too loud and too hungry. still treated with respect and patience! i think comparing this place to hero burger is a mistake. hero burger has the illusion of quality, whereas acme burger actually HAS it. everything ive had here (yes, even in sobriety!) has been delicious and fresh
great vegetarian options too! sometimes you want a greasy heavy meal that doesn’t contain any of our animal friends haha. I could drink their veggie gravy on it’s own. in fact, a friend and i love to have our «cheat’ treat here which is just two orders of fries and veggie gravy. spread them all out on one giant napkin. and just graze. heaven.
i love the staff here! each person is cuter and friendlier than the last. my heart goes out to the gentleman who is from new zealand and has EVERY customer asking if he’s from australia. my friend if you ever read this, stay strong!
I just love this place!

This place is way better then Hero Burger, and has the same style of food. They are open late — bonus for all the bars in the area.
The burgers are grilled fresh to order, but I find they are sometimes over cooked. Due to everything being fresh to order, the chicken breast burgers, or salads, take a long time. If you’re in a hurry, go to McDonald’s. The staff is friendly, but can be slow. They also sometimes forget to change their gloves, so watch them carefully.
Their bacon is not bacon, it’s turkey bacon just as an FYI… this is how they get around being Halal.
Over all good in a pinch, and their Poutine is pretty decent.

I don’t know what is going on with this place. They seem to screw up the order all the time. They asked if i want bacon and cheese on my burger. I said «YES!» When they made it they didn’t put on the cheese. He said I didn’t ask for it. I told him i did and he started to get mad at me, i just told him, then charge me for it. Then argues with me about it. Tables where dirty. He asked his co worker to mop the tables. Forgot the drinks. I think the owner is away. This is not the first time this has happened that the service has been bad. No more chances.

I have been here a few times, burgers are not bad, but as others have reported the tables are often dirty, so I stick to take out. Service seems to depend a lot on the cook/​manager who asks some customers how they want their burgers cooked, but not others. I was watching my burger getting to well cooked and tried to get his attention. He became very rude, waved the burger at me, and then started to insult my family for some reason which I never did understand. When I suggested that he needs to work on his customer service skills he started shouting at me. I have never been treated so poorly in a burger place, I won’t be back until its under new management

I was craving a burger and I have passed this establishment on my way home many times. So on one evening this week I walked in to check out their menu. As I was browsing through their menu, someone who I assume was the manager, suggested that I get their special of the day; the steak burger. Mmm I love steak! Sure, why not. And for $ 5, it sounded like a great deal. As I was paying for my burger the manager asked me how I would like my steak done, and I said medium. I then stepped back and waited for my burger to be made. At the counter you can see the food being cooked and I could see that my burger had been on the grill for too long. I told the guy cooking the meat to put the steak aside (the mini steak by the way – the piece was pretty small) because it was becoming well done. He rolled his eyes and put the piece of meat on the side of the grill, but still ON the grill! Then he proceeded to put onions on it and placing it on a bun. «STOP!» I said. What is that? «I did not ask for onions.» «It comes with them» they said. Then I looked at the menu description again and could not find onions as being an automatic ingredient that was supposed to come with the burger. «Where does it say that?» I asked. «It doesn’t say it anywhere.» They said. «It just comes with it.» «What??? «I hate onions! Take them off!» And again, with a clear attitude he removed the onions. What the heck? As the customer, and as per their advertizing, WE are supposed to choose the toppings. By this point I was becoming really annoyed and disenchanted by the whole experience. I finally chose my toppings that were the average toppings that you would find at Harvey’s and I sat down to eat my burger. Come on, who does not love to eat meat that tastes like leather? If you are going to ask me how I want my meat cooked, the assumption is that you know how to cook meat.
I ate half the burger and trashed the rest. Worst $ 6.50 I ever spent (I spent more because I asked for cheese)!
I highly recommend you go to Harvey’s instead.

Good chicken burgers !

Good burger tastes like dads off the BBQ and the gravy on the poutine is hot enough to melt the curds. The staff were friendly too. This was also a very quiet time for the restaurant. I’ll be back.

My first experience at Acme Burger Co was quite OK.
$ 9.99 Combo that includes 6 oz Burger, Home Fries and Ice Cream Milkshake.
Fresh thickly cut home fries served right off the fryer! That’s always a winner. Freshly made Chocolate Milkshake one of my favourite sinfully liquid dessert…
How’s the burger? Whole Wheat Bun is really a tad too healthy for my taste. Beef patties a little char coaled, a little bland… But my friend just wolfed that down in record speed. Was he hungry or the burger just too yummy?
The deco and furniture looks a little tired. But the patio does look quite inviting!

This is pure evilness. But GOOD evil.
I had the tuna sandwich one of their pseudo healthy meal together with ultra healthy vegetable — potato fries. I asked the server if she would recommend cheese on tuna and her response was «I don’t know». See he difference between fast food and sit down dinners?
The tuna burger was great but like any tuna sandwich, it leaves a gross after taste. Thankfully, I am not meeting anyone after. I smell like a mermaid.
The patio seating is cool but there are plenty of comfortable seats inside. My visit exceeded my expectation only because I thought it would be crappy. I was wrong. It was adequate. Three star for ACME!
Oh… what’s the difference between sit down and fast food?
Server to you conversation:
Fast food = I don’t care.
Sit down = order more so I can get more tip.
Oy!

This is the best of the the Acme Burger locations I’ve been to.
I’d still rather go across the street to Hero, but Acme will do in a pinch.
I’m not sure if it was a new opening glitch as I came here not long after they opened, but they rafters were filling with smoke from the grill. If it wasn’t a nice day and if they didn’t have all the doors open they would have been smoking everyone out of the place.

A perfect example of big business gone wrong on Church St.
Its clear by the staff and the environment that this is the kind of place imported right from a strip mall in the suburbs. And I don’t have anything against those kind of places– nor does every business on Church need a rainbow flag draped over it. But entrepreneurs need to be in tune with their market when rolling out a product and they really missed the mark here.
Not only did the overall ambiance leave me wanting, but the staff was complacent and didn’t really seem to care about customers.
Given Hero and Acme, I’d choose Hero any day. There’s a little more hominess and personability to the athosphere, perhaps being fronted onto a sidewalk helps, rather than Acme’s location, which is very set back from the street.
In terms of the food, I had the Greek Wrap, it was good and took a long time to prepare, the chicken needed to be cooked well and the grill wasn’t very hot. Just a feeling– but I felt the low-​temperature grill was an attempt to save on gas costs, since this place probably has huge overhead already.

Right acros the street from Hero Burger on Church, Acme Burger Co. adds another player to the newly popular market for takeout burgers that harken back to a pre-​Ronaldian era and hope to offer something a little more grown-​up and refined to the burger hounds out there. I have a feeling that the two shops are going to be engaged in some competition, and this review reflects that.
If Acme Burger were a computer program it would get super big points for its user interface — the place looks really good, it’s classy and clean, and the grill and Subway-​style choose your own ingredients are all right in front of you on the main counter. The meals come on shiny metal platters rather than dinky trays. There’s even a patio space inherited from the former Zelda’s.
Much like at Hero, you can choose your patty size from 4, 6 and 8-​ounce offerings, but where the Hero meat is served in a thick patty that arrives medium-​rare, Acme serves a thinner burger, cooked more toward well-​done, that’s not as greasy (visibly or, most importantly, on the palate) but sacrifices the Hero’s satisfying juiciness and big meaty flavour — it felt like there was a lot of bun. I’m more of a thin-​burger guy and I don’t like the taste of grease, so I was happy enough.
The toppings available are pretty standard, but there are some notably interesting exceptions like mango chutney and guacamole. Hero has a more eclectic selection of toppings and sauces (and more burger configurations in general) but the basics at Acme are tasty and I didn’t really feel like I was missing out on anything. Again, I liked being able to see the toppings *before* they went into the finished burger.
Fries? Not so good here in my opinion. Thick-​cut style, but too starchy. Onion rings? Better, but still «meh» — chubby with batter, and greasy instead of being crisp. It’s a shame that a solid burger should come with lackluster sides.
Service was on the slow/​forgetful side even though I was one of only two people placing orders in a quiet moment before the lunch rush. As a previous review mentioned, it feels like the staff are still going through some growing pains. They did add fries to one of the orders on the house, though… thanks guys!
In conclusion — snazzy presentation and good quality but still working out the kinks. Try them if you’re not a big fan of the Hero angle but still want something tastier than the big chain burgers.

I went back a couple of days later and had the burger combo; I upgraded my drink to a milkshake and the fries to poutine. I’m sad to report the burger was a huge disappointment! No better the a McD’s patty!!! Seriously! I asked for extra gravy this time and they did so the poutine was better this time.
I’ll be going back to Hero burger. for a burger!

Hero Burger better clean up their act since ACME burger is across the street at Church & Wellesley
great fries onion rings and the burgers are nice and big their salads also look really good
the staff are doing the best they can seeing it has only opened a week now and I was treated very nicely and efficiently
just updating this to say I had a greek salad yesterday and it was terrible brown lettuce and no flavour
their burgers are great the salads ain’t

Yet another burger chain I’ve never heard of — this one just opened their newest location, in the gay village.
I visited this weekend for my first time. Lots of little issues. Their debit machine wasn’t working properly and was taking about 5 minutes per customer. There is absolutely no organization and the counter staff just couldn’t keep track of my (one) burger and almost gave it to someone else — twice! When she finally put it up on the tray, she kept pulling it down the line, instead of just giving to me. I had to point out that a) it was my burger and b) there was nothing else to add to the tray.
I don’t think they’ve been open long at all, so maybe these are just growing pains. The burger itself though was pretty plain. The topping choices are generic — lettuce, tomato, pickles, olives, etc. Even the sauces are just BBQ, ketchup, mustard, etc. With competing burger chains offering interesting choices like mango chutney and hot pepper relish, you’d think they’d have come up with something fresh. Or at least copied some of those places great options.
They do have sweet potato fries, which I think is great, and even sweet potato fry poutine, which i don’t think I would ever eat, but it sounds interesting.
We’ll see how many of these places can keep popping up. I would think that Toronto’s appetite for the «gourmet» burger should be mostly exhausted by now.