Acme Burger Company

This place has great high quality burgers and the other food is very fresh. Portions are generous and service is exceptional. It gets my vote as an A1 Cheap and Cheerful spot for a quick meal.

Ate lunch there today. The fries are just OK. The burger had a rancid taste to it — which usually means that they don’t scrape the grill often enough and the old burger grease goes bad. It makes me question the overall cleanliness of the place.
Harvey’s is a block away. Go there.
Won’t go back.

The paddy was large and that’s as much positive feedback as I can give this place.
The joint looked dirty, the tables were sticky, the place seemed run down.
The toppings looked so old, and it was only 5:30 pm — I mean — they looked like they had been there for at least 3 days. Lettuce was wilted and dark, the tomatoes looked so gross and were mushy and old looking (like when you forget you left cut up tomatoes in the fridge for a week), there were flies landing all around the toppings.
My fiancée was really craving a burger and we had already paid by the time we noticed the gross toppings, so we decided to go with it, pick the items that looked the least old, and PRAYED FOR NO STOMACH FLU.
The burger was alright, the toppings were SCARY AND NOT OKAY. Whoever owns this franchise, please please care for your business. UGH.

Horrible place. Overcooked burger brown lettuce and dried out onions… add that to the surly server and general unclean feel to the place. I won’t be back.

The last time I visited this place it was around 2010 and I was working in the area and my colleagues and I walked over for a burger. At that time I recall the portion sizes to be huge, the meat thick and juicy and the venue, clean and welcoming.
Looking back at reviews from 2009, 2010, and 2011, I can safely say that my experience in 2010 was inline with that of others back then.
Fast forward May of 2014 and a later evening stop in based on fond memories of burgers past, found me pulling in completely famished. Sadly the experience I remembered was not what I received and I as sorely disappointed.
Keeping to the facts, here is what I can tell you:
1. Venue, what was bright and vibrant, clean and polished — now appears to be run down, dingy, and dim. Almost like the entire place has a grey cast to it now.
2. Prices, tended to be higher than I recall. I will award them a star for offering different sandwiches each day at a $ 5 special. But from a buger shop, they’re now serving anything they can on a bun
3. Quality, While they still use fresh not frozen beef (which is what I award their second star for), I found the bacon used to be overdone and the toppings to be on the verge of turning (soft tomato, wilted lettuce, etc)
4. Value, i found my burger to not be the behemoth it once was. My previous visit had me gasping for air by the end of my burger. This time the 6oz burger I ate appeared small-​ish and unfulfilling (see my picture). I felt it was mostly bun.
Not sure what’s caused the decline of this place or if my memories have given me away? Eitherway, there needs to be some immediate change if they’re to survive the flurry of new burger joints and restaurants popping up on the Queensway.
Eatcrest Out

I have to say the burgers are really good. But a bit to much for what you get.

Not sure how anyone can give this place a good review.
I walked into Acme Burger on the Queensway this afternoon and ordered a 6oz bacon and cheese burger with fries. Waiting for the burger I started noticing all the houseflys buzzing around this messy place. Garbage is overflowing, ketchup stains on counters, random holes in the wall, etc. I told myself not to let the look of the place influence my opinion of the food. As I’m waiting I see the guy pushing down on the burger (tsk tsk) and turning the burger several times and lifting it high and looking underneath it??? Thanks for squeezing out all the flavor rookie.
Fries — tastes of old oil, they cover it in alot of salt to hide the bad taste. A little soggy.
Burger — The bun is thick and firm, way too much bun-​to-​meat ratio. And it tastes stale. Meat is dry as hell. There is absolutely no juice in the burger.
Toppings — I got lettuce, tomato, mayo, bacon, pickles, mushrooms. Hard to screw that up, but the mushrooms are not fresh… they’re straight from a can. Bacon is disgusting! It’s not even REAL bacon — its like some imitation non-​crispy bacon.
Overall: Worst buger place I’ve been to in Toronto. If you’re in the area, go to Sliders across the street and 2 blocks east.

Very good burger on a good bun and fresh toppings. A very welcome change from the chain burgers.

This place is great, seem to hit it every weekend, its convenient for me living on lakeshore i just stop in and then down royal york i go. I always get the Angus Burger and top it with bacon and cheese. Then i put my topping on and always have acme sauce which i also ask for more of for my fries. Fries are excellent to taste like real freshly cut fries. All around great place to eat.

Like some of the others, I’d say 3 ½ stars. I keep going back…
The burgers and fries are big, meaty (100% Angus Beef), have a great bun, and there are a ton of toppings. Yes, the Angus beef really makes a difference. The burgers are great!!!
It’s way above the typical fast food.
There are plenty of tables and seating at counters over looking the street, The only downside is the bathrooms (they’re not so nice).

Good clean burger but I find the burger too bun-​y; I usually pick away at the top of the bun until it’s half it’s size and then I like it a lot better. Too bad they didn’t have a «half-​size bun» option.

I had a meeting this morning in Mississauga. Heading back to Toronto, I stopped at Acme Burger in Etobicoke (Queensway/​Royal York) for lunch. I’d heard they had a good burger so thought I’d check it out.
I ordered the 6 ounce burger combo … burger, fries and pop. $ 9 including tax.
There were two people ahead of me and we had to wait about ten minutes after an unfriendly fella took our orders. He poured our pops right away. I hate that because they get warm and/​or the ice melts.
There are lots of condiments to choose from … the fella dressing the burgers was friendly.
The fries were really good … they are hand cut and apparently not frozen. They were hot. The burger was so-​so. The meat was warm, not hot … no doubt the hold-​up was getting the fries cooked so the burger had to sit and wait. They toast the bun. I had a whole wheat bun which was lightly toasted. I could have also had a white bun but it was way overtoasted.
I’m glad I stopped in and tried this restaurant … I won’t be rushing back, though, as it was just an okay, not great, experience.

Good burgers, fresh toppings, beef a little overcooked for my tastes. I’d go back more often if the fries weren’t so thick, I prefer my fries French bistro style.
Just wish I could find an in-​n-​out style burger in Toronto. Gets expensive having to fly to California or Vegas everytime I get a double double craving.

Two & a half stars.
I was holed up at the Etobicoke School of the Arts for a few days auditioning divas for our 2010 spring production.
Ain’t nothing like being in a room full of 16 year old Divas in Waiting singing their little hearts out. By noon our ears had had a yaffle full of warbling wannabes so my Diva Auditioning Committee headed off for some lunch. We hit up Acme Burger on the corner of Royal York & Queensway. It was that or Pizza Pizza. You can tell this is a corner that caters to highschool students (there are three highschools on Royal York just north of the Queensway).
Acme, Hero, Harvey’s, Lick’s…different names, same damn burgers. Acme’s claim to burger goodness is that they use Angus beef. Whatever. Grind that beef to a pulp, form it into one of those flat patties and flash freeze it. They turn that Angus beef into the Soylent Green of hamburgers. As usual I order up my Cheeseburger combo and for $ 9.75 I got a 6 ounce frisbee of beef, fries and a fountain drink. What is it with these signature sauces? Hero does that rancid Ranch crap and Acme has something similar with a dill/​garlicky taste. If you ask me it’s just glorified mayo with some dried up herbs tossed in, hence trying to appear to be gourmet. Uh huh. I ain’t buying that. Personally I think it is just their way of trying to hide how average and mediocre that meat is.
The dividing line between Acme and the other Stepford wife hamburger chains is that the fries are fresh cut which is good. The downside to it was that either the oil needed to be changed or the heat needed to be turned up. The fries had great potential but they were soggy and somewhat oily. Being able to taste the oil on fries is the kiss of death to them.
Complaints among my Diva posse were that the burgers were inconsistently cooked. While mine was cooked my Diva sista and Musical Director, Danica gagged on her semi raw burger. Not good. The onion rings got good reviews and interestingly one comment was that the fries didn’t taste like the rings which got me to thinking they cook them in separate fryers.
All in all, Acme Burger, you get no R-​E-​S-​P-​E-​C-​T from this burger Diva.

I put Acme a cut above your typical fast food joint, but not as good as boutique places like Craft Burger. This is really a 3.5 star review but I’ll give them a bump up because the service was good.
They have lots of great toppings including their «Acme Sauce» which is like a garlic mayo. Other non-​traditional toppings include banana peppers, jalapeños, and 3 choices of cheese.
The traditional Acme burger is available in a 4, 6 and 8 oz. size and they also offer chicken and veggie burgers. Your choice of sides are fries, sweet potato fries, and onion rings. I had the sweet potato fries which were nice and crispy but nothing else really stood out about them.
Overall this is a good lunch choice if your in Etobicoke and looking for something off the beaten path.

I’ve been by for burgers a couple times now. The first couple of times were great, but the last time was a poor experience. I’ll probably stop by at least once more for good measure.