I've been here 3 or 4 times, and haven't had a poor experience (I did at their Kanata location, but this review is for this location specifically). The fact that they have so many options is great, and as I was watching carb intake, it was easy to just skip the bun and have that presented as an option up front.
Realistically, for the price and considering these are really just burgers with different toppings, it is pretty pricey for what it is, and while I don't go out of my way to come here, I've not been disappointed whenever I end up here. There are a lot of gourmet burger places in Ottawa lately, and a lot of them are quite comparable, and while I don't feel the works is particularly a standout, it certainly isn't a bad option overall either.
My favorite place to catch a veggie gourmand burger : 3 ring binder (cheese and onion ring with a veggie patty) and tower of rings (onion rings) 🙌🏻
TRUST me it's goooood
"Kick ass burgers" is true for this burger joint. Casual dining ambience,love to visit again. Best burger place in Ottawa definitely competes with World Burgers.
Best burger place in town! I got the juicy Lucy, wich was a cheese stuffed burger, my friend got a kevin something burger? 6 type af bacon! Good atmosphere, great service! Good food! Will defiantly return
Great great great burgers! Big and juicy you honestly have the option of adding toppings and having a wide range of options! The service was great! Definitely a great place to eat!
I've tried a couple of burger places now in Ottawa. This is one of the better ones. It has a nice atmosphere, attentive servers and food has been consistently good. I think they are a tad pricier than most burger places. For two people, I would want to pay closer to the $25-$30 mark than $40 for two people. However, overall a great place to have a burger.
Tasty burgers and great, interesting choices. A bit pricey for burgers but they are good. My daughter loved the KD topped burger.
Any burger can be turned into a "Juicy Lucy" (mozzarella cheese inside the patty) which is a great option.
Tasty onion rings, good fries. Atmosphere was interesting with different things embedded into the brick throughout the restaurant. Has a bit of an industrial feel.
Worth a try.
I come here regularly and the quality and service is consistent every time. The burgers are good, although there are so many variations I've only tried a few. Industrial theme is unique.
The Works is amazing! I have been this restaurant over 5 times and have excellent service each time. I prefer to go when it is less busy (during the early afternoon, non weekends). This restaurant has a lot of character, the salt and pepper shakers are made of lightbulb holders, and you are served your drinks in measuring cups.
Tips
-Make sure your eyes and stomach are communicating..you may leave feeling fuller then you intended
-Ask about the seasonal changes to the menu...things are always changing for the better
-Try the deep fried pickles...they are the bomb.com
-Parking is limited to side streets
-Birthdays at the works are always fun (but make sure to reserve space is limited)
-Gluten Free & Vegan options (thank god)
Definitely the place to go if you're craving burgers. The Works has practically an infinite number of combinations, with multiple patty and bun options too (vegetarian and gluten free included). They have everything classic burgers to weird (but delicious) topping combos you'd never think would work together. Very industrial feel; the walls have bits of screws and cans mixed into the concrete, the drinks come in measuring cups, the food is served in a metal tray etc. I have never had a bad experience in the dozen or so times I have eaten here, although I have heard other not-so-positive stories from friends.
There are so many options to choose from for everyone. There's lots of veggie options and gluten free too. The beer selection is great, all local breweries too!
1 of the best burger joints in town. From the rings to the burger & the milkshakes... never disappoints!!! THE MILKSHAKES ARE AWESOME.
Every time I go, I try a different topping, some I didn't fancy but majority have been YUM. I just wish it was bigger so we don't have to wait in line for too long when it's busy.
Great burgers. Love this restaurant. Food is amazing and the service is great as well as the atmosphere. From the lightbulb salt and pepper shakers to the tower of rings. This place is amazing. The burgers are different but oh so good. Highly recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for a great burger
Vegan burger. Made me the best vegan burger ever. they accommodated my every wish . and made my dream burger THANKS GUYS you made this vegan very happy
Yummmm forever. Such good food! by far my favorite burger place of all time
get the onion rings they're also the best you will ever eat :)
Before coming here, I had never eaten a burger from a restaurant before. Boy did The Works ever set the standard! I ordered the "War Pig" burger with a Caesar salad and fries. The burger was phenomenal and the fries were great. The Caesar salad was nothing special, but tasty. The croutons were awkwardly large. Fair prices for the portions. Friendly staff and a interesting and comfortable environment.
If you are craving for burger this is the place! It's a little expensive for burger but they are very big. The look of the place is "special" but what do you expect when you want a burger! This is a good fast food restaurant.
Duane Morrisseau Beck
+4.5
Amazing place to eat. The Tower O Rings rock and the Pumpkin Shake is awesome!
Really good burgers. My boyfriend have I went here a couple of weeks ago and it was a really nice dinner. He had a burger with an over-easy egg on top, and I had one with smokey BBQ sauce. They were both delicious. The sheer amount of menu items threw us for a loop though, it took a while to read them all and see what we wanted. The appetizer (steamrollers) were just like Anajitos from Montana's, delicious.
I was impressed they still accepted a coupon for a free burger that I was given almost three years ago because of a crappy experience, I brought it long just in case because there was no expiry date.
Overall, the atmosphere was great, food was hot and delicious, our server was really nice and quick. i'm glad we gave it another chance.
Must do for burgers!. Great burgers, great beer, great atomosphere, great service, great restaurant. 'nuff said.
I dream about these burgers. I've been to The Works several times with my boyfriend and his family and while majority of the time we've had to wait in a line, it's been totally worth it. The menu is quirky and fun - it's hard to choose because most of them sound amazing and you literally want to try a new one everytime you go (my favourite is the Dead Ringer- Bbq smoked brisket, smokey bbq sauce, jack cheese & an onion ring). It's a little bit more expensive than some other places but the quality of ingredients, and the size of the portions make it worth it. The milkshakes (get the ryan ashbury!) in the pyrex measuring cups is reason to visit if you're not feeling a burger (but seriously, get one). The options are endless and the sweet potato fries are so damn good. Please do yourselves a favour and go! I was so happy the day I found out they were opening across Ontario, that's just how good The Works is.
Love to go again n again. I love going here for hamburgers. The choice of different types of meat or veggie burgers is great, and you have hundreds of toppings to choose from so you can't possibly go wrong. The prices are great and the beer choices are not bad. But it's a must for any Ottawa foodie.
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Tasty and Satisfying. After not visiting the works for about a year I decided that it was time to return.
I visited a week ago with my girlfriend and I was not disappointed. We arrived around 4:30 on a Saturday to find the restaurant about 50% full. As usual we were warmly greeted and shown to our table and our waitress inquired about our drink order. After she brought our drink we ordered the remainder of our meal.
The Order: 1 chocolate peanut butter shake, 1 Ryan Ashbury's shake (oreo cookie, peanut butter and caramel), 1 Tower-O-Rings, 1 Ho Hum #5 (cheese, bacon, mushrooms) with a gluten free bun and spicy die-cut chips, and 1 Smokey Mountain (Smokey bbq sauce, jack cheese & bacon strips) with salad.
The milkshakes: I usually go for the oreo cookie milkshake but decided to try out the Ryan Ashbury shake and I was not disappointed. The milkshake was one of the best I had ever had. The peanut butter and caramel complimented the oreo's extremely well. My girlfriend's shake was also very good. I opted for the small/kids size (8oz) ainstead of getting a medium (16oz) as 16oz of milkshake + a burger is too much too handle sometimes.
The Tower-O-Rings is about 12-15 breaded onion rings on a vertical stick with two dipping sauces. The onion rings are mediocre as the onion tends to come out of the breading. Also to be noted is that the rings are breaded as opposed to battered. The ranch dipping sauce was your average ranch however I was very turned off the chipotle mayo dipping sauce. I love having chipotle mayo dipping sauce with sweet potato fries and assumed that they would be good with rings however this mayo seemed to be a little off compared to other mayo's that I have had before.
Now onto the burgers, the smokey mountain was as usual delicious with its smokey BBQ sauce and a perfectly cooked patty. It was good but it wasn’t great. My girlfriend enjoyed her Ho Hum #5 but the highlight of her main course was the gluten free bun and the die cut chips. The chips were excellent, they were fresh and hot homemade potato chips. She also really enjoyed the gluten free bun and said it tasted just as good if not better than a regular bun. Although an additional $0.97 it was worth it.
Overall a satisfying meal and I will return however only if I am craving a good burger or a milkshake.
Amazing burgers and friendly staff they make you feel like 20 again.
The onion ring tower was nice but the crust need salt and the dips where good.
a bad thing will be that they rush you out no chance of enjoying your meal but to be understand with the line up at the door.
toilets not to clean
Delicious burgers and heavenly onion rings!. I am a huge fan of The WORKS after having tried it once. The burgers were cooked perfectly - the meat was juicy and all the flavours mixed really well. The onion rings were done well - there were actually onions inside with a lot of dips to choose from! I also loved the fact that it was served in a metal tray, which adds to the awesomeness of this place.
Customer service was great. Our waiter quickly took our orders and provided us with everything that we needed. Although it did take a while to get our food, it was a great experience since it was busy.
The food here is pricey, but it is definitely worth a shot!
Great friendly service and a wide selection of great burgers.
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Gotta collect them all. The Works is an institution. The décor is a sort of faux-kitsch garage/industrial setup, and the food relishes this kind of messy, dirty setup. Drinks are served in their famous measuring cups. Burgers are served on checkboard picnic-style paper inside metal sheet baking pans.
The menu consists of around 100 different eclectic burger types. You really need to keep coming back again and again to try different burgers to see what works. Among the stranger choices are burgers with peanut butter (the peanut butter ends up melted enough that it's more like a peanut butter sauce), bananas, pineapple, eggs (common in Japan but not in North America!). Burgers are served on white or whole wheat, made of beef, turkey, mushroom, veggie pattie, chicken, or elk. The burgers are well-cooked and the meat is very nice, but they go pretty easy on the seasoning so you might find it overall bland--recommend asking them to add salt or extra seasoning to the burger or choosing a menu option with more flavourful toppings. Sides are a variety of pub fare, but I will mention the die-cut potato slices which are nice, a little lighter than the french fries, and go well with the wide variety of dips offered. Burgers cost between $11-13.
The Works also has a huge and interesting cold drink menu. Milkshakes, floats, and ice/fruit smoothies are highly recommended. The milkshakes are very creamy and have a strong flavour. I recommend the Mint Chocolate. The Peanut Butter and Chocolate shake is also worth a try--it literally tastes like drinking Reece's Peanut Butter Cups. Holy moly.
Can't say I recommend the onion rings, but every receipt comes with a web address for a survey. Fill out the survey and you get the onion rings for free the next time you come, so if you're going to order them, do it this way.
Awesome. I've been to this place many times for lunch. Right in the heart of the Glebe, The Works is an amazing place to go to if you're looking for great burgers! There are a couple of this place all across the city. Give it a try.
Favourite !!. FAVOURITE!! WAY BETTER THEN ALL THE OTHER 'THE WORKS' !!
Amazing!. So much selection! You have to keep coming back and try them all! I ordered the Crappy Tire - it has pineapple in it - amazing! I was so full afterwards I can barely walk.
The decor of the place is pretty cool - construction decor all around. Your drinking glasses are measuring cups! :)
Service is pretty good - the waitress is very attentive and accommodating.
Millions of choices. Hard to choose because everything looks good.
Love the kd on the side. What can i say: i grew up on kd but am too lazy to make it at home. Nice touch!
Expensive burger joint. Glebe location was packed on a Sunday night. Really chooching. People in Ottawa are really into this place for some reason, I figured the hype would have died down by now when everyone figured out it was just a hamburger. Great hamburger, lots of variety and a few other cool interesting combos I want to try. The sweet potato fries are okay, certainly not the best I've ever had. Onion rings are great but someone needs to tell them they aren't breaded in gold, they're just onion rings. The tower of onion rings is $10, and you get about 10 rings for that price. $1 a ring is a little much, you can get chicken wings for cheaper. To upgrade your meal from fries to rings, it's $3.50 onto an already somewhat expensive burger/fries, really guys?
Hunka Hunka. This burger features peanut butter and banana and was very good. I just had to try something different as I try to be as open to new things as possible. I would recommend this burger.
Discretionary Gratuity
+4.5
Redonkulous menu. Went to The Works in Ottawa's Glebe neighbourhood and my girlfriend should have warned me that the menu would be huge. Not just huge, just redonkulous. You'd be there for 30 minutes reading and re-reading and choosing and filtering what kind of burger you want, so I gave up. I had the sweet potato fries platter, which also came with their in-house cut fries and 3 different dips. Drinks are served in large baking measuring cups, which reminds me of how O'Toole's used to serve drinks in Mason jars back in the 80s.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that they have a number of locations in Ontario and are in growth mode, locating in what looks like college/university towns. They soooo need to come to Peterborough because this cat will either have to go to Kingston or Oakville (if it's open yet) or Guelph to try a burger again. They let you take home menus, which are printed on heavy kraft paper and the burgers are named for different political or social themes. There were just so many though. So if you don't mind reading a list of amazing sounding burgers with ingredients that are mindbending, you should get your ass a location of The Works near where you are.
Still, good but overated!. Once again, I must say this place is overated. It goes by the best burger, the amazing towel of onion rings, etc. It is always full and I still can't figure it out. Of course, this place is fun, the menu is funny and interesting, good decor and good service, but the burger itself, needs some work to do. Regarding the onion ring tower, again fun... but it taste like... onion rings... nothing special.
I go because it's fun and I like to try the different kinds of toppings and sauce but I always leave with a good burger... not the BEST burger.
Great for a heavy lunch. Lots of selection.
Great Burger!. Excellent burger, fries, and the onion rings are crazy! This place is definitely good to try once in a while, given that its quite heart clogging! Other than that, if you don't pay attention you can quickly run up a big bill.
The longest menu!!. I really love going to works if I have a craving for burgers. But there is always a huge lineup, so I recommend looking through the menu while you wait in line. There are over 200 burger combinations, some more creative than others. I like to look for my favorite ingredience like avocado, roated red peppers, brie or havarti, mushrooms, and onions. It's rare to find them all in one burger, but that's the fun of choosing what you are in the mood for!
You can get crazy things like penut butter, pineapple or even eggs... obviously not on the same burger! (Yuk).
The onion rings are to die for and help with the long wait. They worn you ahead of time that the wait is long, sinc ethey have to ensure that the fresh beef/chichken/turkey/buffalo (or was it bison?) patties are cooked well.
They also have amazing milkshakes and free refills on drinks!
The drinks come in a cute measuring cup and the decor is quite masculine and fun to look at!
One of the greatest burgers ever. Love the MEC and a chocolate mint shake!
Greatest burgers in the city!!!
Usually a wait as the burgers take 25 min to prepare. choice or beef, organic beef, vegan, elk, turkey, chicken. the decor is amazing. salt and pepper shakers are light bulbs. I'll people watch you later
Definitely not a secret that this place is great. Everyone loves the works, even vegetarians! But the secret is that the Three Ring Binder is easily the best thing on the menu. Love it!
Fun, Friendly and Affordable!. What a fantastic hidden gem! I love this place, from the awesome atmosphere, friendly and outgoing staff to the zany menu and unique food presentation! Fair prices, HUGE portions, family friendly, I give this restaurant two thumbs up!
Great Burgers & Service, Pricey. Great variety of burgers here, and the one's I've tried have all been really good. Once our burgers came really pink so we sent it back, they gave us new burgers, paid for our appetizer, and gave us two vouchers for free burgers, so we were very happy with their service. The tower of rings is my favourite, with chipotle mayo.
The only cons is that the restaurant is small, and always busy, so you'll have to wait to be seated nearly every time. Also the food is fairly expensive.
Expensive. Good. But expensive.. Like most reviewers, I agree. The price of the burger with fries are on the $13-15 range which is very expensive for a burger.
The burger meat is of good quality, and the fries were excellent, especially the sweet potato fries. The price is *almost* of typical bar food if out late and you have one of those burger cravings. But... I'm not neglecting the price, it still is high!!
I do like these burgers, but truthfully it is an expensive dining place that I would much prefer to spend elsewhere if craving a burger.
Decided to stray from the burgers (it was hard).
Ordered a fajita poutine on a whim (perhaps because it was at the top of the menu.
Great job guys bringing mexio to montreal!
Went there for the first time! I freakin love it... A must order are the onion rings... Yuuuummmm! For sure I'm coming back!
Love the KD. Love side dish of Kraft Dinner that I was able to order as a side. This alone is worth the trip.
Always Go Back!. I am an Ottawa native. Moved to BC five years ago. Every time I am back in Ottawa, it's my first restaurant stop. I have been around the world, and the Organic Beef patty is the world's best burger. Guaranteed. If you come hungry, definitely get a tower of rings so you don't die during the well-worth-it wait!
Have yet to find a better burger anywhere, and trust me I mean anywhere.
Interesting selection. Although it took awhile to get a table, and the order but the burgers I've had so far make up for it. Price for the burgers are a little steep.
Disaster. We were there a few weeks ago. It took more than an hour (at 2:30 pm) to get our very overpriced food. Staff friendly enough, food is very good but that does not make up for the outrageous prices and the loooooong wait for our food. Never again.
Pricey but tasty. It's a bit pricey but you get a huge burger and chips/fries. The decor is very unique and so are the burgers! Try the one with peanut butter, it's delicious!
Parking is a bit of a pain obviously.
I know a lot of people don't like it cause it's way to expensive but the burgers are so good and you get like 100or more things to put on it
This is a great place for burgers, you should try the milkshakes they're very good. And the price on the burgers is the price it should be because this is not Mcdonalds.
Go to the st-laurent location. The service is excellent and it's a little less crowded. The works is by far the best burger joint in town. You can't go wrong.
Best burger ever - Jamaican Jerk / beef patty. We had to wait an hour to be seated, 6 of us, but was well worth it!
Very expensive for a burger place but excellent an very unique burgers
Amazing burgers, especially the MEC burger with avocado on it!! Don't forget to try the Tower of Rings and a milkshake!! Just be sure to hit the gym afterwards, but The Works is totally worth it! Great food, great service, great atmosphere!
I love all the different choices of toppings! I love their yams fries! Definetely worth every penny
I love the works its the best place for burgers
Really friendly knowledgeable staff. Best burger I've ever had!
Didn't know what to expect and ended up pleasantly surprised! Great burger restaurant, nice ingredient quality, great attention to details and to the reality of having small children with us. Will most likely go back when we're in Ottawa again in the future.
Went for the lunch menu (available until 3pm), and had the Smokey Mountain with fries. The slightly smaller burger party size is perfect, and the fries were the best they've been - nice and crispy outside and fluffy inside. Definitely got my money's worth here.
Mike Nguyen (Darwiner)
+5
Food was great. As much burgers as fries and everything else. The kids portions were plentiful.
My only complaint would be environment-wise, as we were cold while sitting inside the restaurant, as if there was almost no heating... And I'm not just talking about drafts of cold air from time to time from the door being opened.
I was pleasantly surprised by this place. The menu has lots of great options. It is a bit pricey for a burger but it’s worth it every once in a while for something different. The atmosphere is good.
I ordered takeout. It took about 25 minutes to prepare.
Great toppings and delicious burgers. They are generous with the fries and The customer service is very friendly and professional. Great place to have a burger if you are in the area.
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