Laymon's Sausage Burger?

A detour took me down Washington Street in the west side last week and a sign caught my eye in front of Laymon's Link Place. Looks like a standard tips/wings/links kinda place, but they seem really proud of their burger ("beef/pork/turkey with smothered onions"). Has anyone tried it?

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WTF? You had time to take a picture, but
couldn't even "Come in for Free Sample!"?
Fail!

SCUBAchef wrote:WTF? You had time to take a picture, but
couldn't even "Come in for Free Sample!"?

Now, to be fair, I had time to snap a picture, but no particular desire to sample the namesake offering, free or otherwise.

Fair enough -- just wanted to see if there was any reviews before taking the plunge, but I'll be the guinea pig!

OK, I finally had a free day for lunch so I called a buddy and we headed back to Laymon's for their world famous sausage burger. We had a choice of a beef, pork, or turkey. Based on their recommendation, we picked the pork, which tasted like a standard breakfast sausage, but was actually really tasty when combined with grilled onions and BBQ sauce. Grabbed a pepsi out of the vending machine and sat down for lunch at the one rickety plastic table. (Good thing it wasn't occupied or we'd be eating on the car hood again...)



The photo doesn't show it, but there were actually TWO burger-sized sausage patties stacked together, and although it wasn't exactly "smothered in onions" as advertised, there were enough to add flavor. The BBQ sauce was way too sweet for my taste, but kept everything moist and tasty. All in all, with fries included, a really good deal and a lot of food for $3.50.



We also tried the tips/links combo, which was equally generous. The sauce really helped the links, which were nicely charred but a little dry. The tips were decent, but not as much smoke flavor as I'd like. In fact we didn't really smell any smoke until we were ready to leave--they must have been firing up the dinner batch.

I'd give Laymon's a moderate thumbs up for respectable authentic chicago westside eats. Now iIf they could give the sauce a bit more wang, I think it would take things up a notch.

poornorman wrote:Now iIf they could give the sauce a bit more wang, I think it would take things up a notch.

Strongly disagree!

so is the Beef sausage burger just a hamburger????

poornorman wrote:OK, I finally had a free day for lunch so I called a buddy and we headed back to Laymon's for their world famous sausage burger.

Nice, you talked the talk and walked the walk.

Sandwich looks, if not exactly mind blowingly delicious, certainly interesting enough to want to try.

Nice pictures

Enjoy,
Gary