Shamrocks

Shamrock was a bit disappointing.
On the plus side they offer free pop refills, friendly service, great fries and presentation
Unfortunately there were too many negatives…
— They removed the egg topping option. They did by scratching it off the sign with a pen.
— Limited toppings
— Cool looking dinning room, but not very clean, run down
— The burger was ok, but it was over cooked, almost burned, and a funny after taste in the meat
— Bacon was also burned
— Ordered the 10 oz. burger, but it’s shaped like a football so the meat sticks out of the bun. What’s the point of ordering a larger burner if it can’t fit within the bun?
— Really bad onion rings, bad spongey coating
In the end I think Shamrock Burger fails because of bad management, won’t be going back.

I live for better than average burgers, and Shamrock was a lucky find. There are your «mystery meat» burgers like McD, A&W, and common burgers like 5 Guys, and Heroe’s. I always prefer South Street, The Works, Burgers Priest and any other place with a tastier approach to the venerable meat puck.
Shamrock has just a few different burger options (mostly in size), but add on a Steak Sammy, or a Philly Cheesesteak and I get interested. For a different flavour I went with the Philly Cheesesteak with the addition of sautéed mushrooms and the Chipotle BBQ sauce. It’s great that you can customize your meal.
To round out the Combo, I had a generous portion of Sweet Potato Fries and a Garlic Mayo for the dip. My associate had the burger and attached a bunch of special requests. It all came out perfectly, and I didn’t hear a peep out of him until he was finished hoovering down the whole thing.
Really, for a couple bucks more than McBurger there is no excuse for not enjoying good food, customized the way you want it!

Actually I was surprised by Shamrocks. I have put off trying it for awhile just because I typically don’t do fast food and it felt like a fast food restaurant.
The burger was tasty. Thinner then expected but with the traditional options I was able to make a messy burger just the way I like it. And I would eat it again. A good measure. The Philly cheese steak was good, however I was curious on where the cheese was. More would have made it more traditional. And would have mitigated the question — where is my cheese?
The homemade fries were amazing and I ate those up quicker then you could say my name.
The onion rings need some help. The batter tasted like something that you would expect on fish. Same texture and taste. And not necessarily a bad thing. However, it would be fine if the onions were cut to the size to appropriate for the batter. I say this because the onion rings tasted like batter versus onion rings. Unless the onions are cut wider I would avoid them, which is unfortunate because they are almost there.
Overall, try it. Find what you like and enjoy!

I went here yesterday with the wife & kids, since she was craving a burger, & I didn’t feel like cooking. A buddy on my hockey team had mentioned this place, so we decided to give them a shot.
The place is decorated in a hip, «rock and roll» style with graffiti on the walls, & while it wasn’t filthy, it definitely wasn’t clean, either. The table our oldest boy picked out for us had crumbs & other assorted schmutz on it. Seeing as how we were there at 4:30, well ahead of the dinner rush, there was no reason that one of the two girls working couldn’t have cleaned the tables.
I went up to the counter & ordered a Famous Burger Combo (10oz) with onion rings for myself, while my wife wussed out & chose a Classic Burger Combo (4oz), despite me pressuring her to order a Rock Star Combo which comes with a 6oz burger. She did however, choose to upgrade to sweet potato fries for an extra buck. The kids wanted a chicken finger combo & a kids’ burger combo, so after all was said & done, the damage was $ 36 & change. Oh yeah, my wife tried to order a milkshake for us to split while we waited for our food, but the machine was broken. Apparently, the machine is broken a lot, at least according to the counter girl.
We sat down & waited an appropriate amount of time for our food, unless you ask our 6 year-​old, who was famished, & said it took «forever.» Unfortunately, they forgot to give my wife the sweet potato fries she ordered, so we had to send the regular ones back while we waited for them to bring the sweet potato ones out to us. It turned out to be very unfortunate that we sent those back, because when I tried my onion rings, they were a monumental disaster. Like Greg B said in his review, these things are DOUGHY BLANDNESS! Once you get through all that batter, there isn’t even a hint of onion. How can you hide the taste of onion in an onion ring??? The batter is so thick, that they don’t even look like onion rings! They look like that unrecognisable lump of clay that a first-​grader brings home as a Mother’s Day present. The only saving grace was that they don’t charge you extra to upgrade (?) to the onion rings, like they do with the sweet potato fries. If I had paid extra for those, I can’t even imagine what obscenities would’ve erupted from me.
Now, terrible onion rings aside, the sweet potato fries were quite good, and the regular fries were decent enough. Thankfully, they weren’t overcooked, like Greg B’s were. The fries were medium cut, with the skin-​on, & were comparable to New York Fries, just a little thicker.
My burger was fairly good, although it wasn’t remarkable in any way. It was cooked properly, still juicy enough to be enjoyable, but not so juicy that it turned into a soggy slopfest, either. It was good enough that I’d come back, but not good enough that it’ll be next week.
The combos come with fountain drinks, although canned pop is also available. Even though you get free refills, my beef is that the cup they give you is the smallest one you’ll ever see in a restaurant, & the soda fountain is behind the counter, so they have to refill it for you. Most places let you fill your own cup. Lucky for us, it wasn’t busy, so we could walk right up to the counter for refills, but if it had been busy, getting refills would have been a major pain. It would also be problematic for those weirdos who like to make «swamp water.»
All in all, I would normally have given them 3 stars, but for a burger place to have such unbelievably bad onion rings, just makes me angry, so 2 stars it is. I might go back, but I definitely wouldn’t order the onion rings again, unless at gunpoint.

«Shamrock Burgers has been serving up great Canadian food since 1970 Shamrock is parked in a very prominent place in Toronto History» directly from the website… Not sure why they have been around that long.
Its average burgers with average prices, I have tried this place on several occasions and have never received a great meal. The owner/​staff never really make you feel welcome, it is a bit of a let down.
The onion rings are big balls of doughy blandness, for the money you’d hope to get more than 5 but then again its a bit of a saving grace that you only get 5 dough balls to choke down.
fries have been over cooked on every visit.
Will not go back