Kwik Way Burgers
Hours: 11am-10pm
Address: 500 Lake Park Ave
Phone: (510) 832-1300
Well it seems the new hot topic is Kwik Way Burgers at 500 Lake Park Ave has reopened. A new owner by the name of Gary Rizzo(current owner of Somerset) has reopened the location with a new restaurant and altered menu but kept the old Kwik Way name.
I’m a little confused as to why the extreme excitement as if this place was actually missed? If I recall many people complained about this place all the time. The same people that complained and protested Walgreen’s but then stopped saying a word when it was paired with a Trader Joe’s. These people even made claims it was attracting a late night rowdy crowd that was not wanted in the Grand Lake neighborhood. A crowd that littered without a thought or care and disrespected the neighborhood. If you check it’s old Yelp it only has 2 stars! They also fought it when a Fat Burger wanted to open up at this location. And fought the McDonald’s option. But let this Burger place right back in? What makes it any different?
So my question is why the hype now? Are you all new to Oakland and just don’t know? Or did you all forget how you felt about it before it closed down? Has anything changed? Maybe the fact that the Heart & Dagger is next door now and not the Serenader? I can see that changing the crowd completely. But the food? Still the same or slightly altered menu. I think it’s mighty bold to try and put yet another Burger Joint upon us with all of the options on Grand including True Burger and Ahn’s Burger so close. Maybe this place will have later hours? But again that was what you opposed before.
Either way, here’s the menu and good luck with it. I would much rather see something else go up here. Let me know how it is. Leave some comments about the food or experiences you have had here.
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Do younhave a picture. I was around there a couple of weeks ago and the place was partially boarded up, had grafffit all over it and had this ugly lime green paint on it. It looked like it was months away from opening. It looked awful. I hope they did a good job with the final product. That small street looks kind of run down. The Cuban restaurant “Cana” building had a boarded up window on the second floor. They need to clean that block up.
There you have it. I don’t know for sure but if their prices are higher then maybe it’s because of the “different crowd” patronizing it.
Or people are excited about ANYthing that looks “new” in this day of beater plastic cars not being fixed, everyone feeling broke ass and down, and the general ugliness of the grafitti’d boarded up building that was there before (per Navigator)…
Probably those two reasons. Makes the area around the theater more of a hangout spot, and the lights from KW light up the public park between it and 580 too.