Rocky's Burger Bus

1120 46th Ave. SE, Calgary, AB, XX - (403) 243-0405

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Posted By Michael Stern on October 31, 2002 4:13 AM

As a general rule, restaurants housed in broken-down busses are superb. Curtis’s Barbecue of Vermont is one good example. At the other end of the continent in the province of Alberta, Rocky’s Burger Bus is example #2. A 1960s-era urban transit bus long ago run aground in an industrial park at the southeast edge of Calgary, Rocky’s serves some of the best burgers in the West. There’s no indoor dining room here. Dining facilities are nothing more than a few scattered-around picnic tables painted red to match the bus.

Order your food by stepping up on a metal grate at the window near what used to be the driver’s seat. We recommend asking for a double hamburger and French fries. Then, expect to wait a while. Although it is casual in the extreme and frills are minimal, Rocky's cuisine cannot honestly be called fast food. Each hamburger is hand-pattied. It's extra thick so it takes a while to cook on the inside-the-bus grill (which exudes a devastating beefy aroma). Potatoes are cut and fried to order; and when things get busy – as they do at lunch when blue-collar pickup trucks and pinstriped Mercedes fight for parking space in the adjoining prairie grass – the French fry production runs behind demand.

The hamburgers are broader than the bun, cooked through but astonishingly succulent, with craggy black outsides that have crunch and savor like thick bacon. A single is a big sandwich. A double is a meat orgy.

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Posted By Jed Web on February 27, 2011 1:16 PM

Rocky's Burger Bus offers a unique experience and great food. The portions are definitely generous. If you're a health nut Rocky's may not be for you, but if you love a good burger, give them a try.

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