mmm-yoso!!! is the food blog you are reading and this time it's Cathy posting about a wonderful burger she enjoys regularly.
Hi. If you've been around San Diego for a while, you remember Boll Weevil, the burger/bar place where pool tables abounded. Most of the locations closed a few years ago (the Boll Weevil location on Clairmont Mesa is still there). We've always loved the burgers at Boll Weevil, because they would grill them medium rare. Weevil Burger does that also.
This reincarnation is in the same spot as a previous Boll Weevil, in the La Mesa Fletcher Parkway strip mall which houses 'the' Michaels and 'the' Souplantation, closer to Shizuoka which is near Dallas Street.
The interior is essentially the same, just cleaned up a bit (the original menu with prices is printed on that endangered species green sea turtle shell on the wall) with 4 flat screen televisions.
After you place your order, the Traditional Tray of Condiments is brought to your table. -pickles, onions, relish, sweet peppers, catsup, mustard, mustardrelish blend, tobasco, salt and pepper. You still have to remember to ask for mayonnaise.
The half pound Weevil burger, medium rare. ($4.59). It's $1.50 more to add cheese, lettuce and tomato and really, I don't want that on this burger. The meat is coarse ground and flavorful all by itself. 
I did add pickles, onion and mustard. The bun is toasted. Nothing else is needed to make this perfect for me. 
The pool tables and video game area was busy the night we were here. 
The Mister ordered the 1/2 pound Mushroom-Swiss burger with a side salad ($8.99). Also medium rare. as a combo (with fries (straight or curly), onion rings or salad) it's $8.99 and quite a meal. He likes the fresh sauteed mushrooms and the taste of the Swiss cheese on his burger.
The croutons are made in house, from rye bread, which they use here for their patty melt… Just plain white lettuce and a slice of tomato, but on its own, the salad is $3.50, so the combos are less expensive than ordering individual items here.
This particular location is doing very well and has a variety of menu items, including gyros sandwiches and varieties of chicken, all of which are fried properly. Sometimes I do order the 2 piece fried chicken meal, because it is so good. Usually, though it's the 1/2 pound Weevil Burger. That's all I need.
Weevil Burger 9104 Fletcher Parkway (at Dallas) La Mesa 91942 (619)644-1010
Just read the last two posts, and for some odd reason, I am really hungry for a burger. Go figure.
I remember those. We used to go all the time as kids, and they were pretty divey. I don’t know something about Weevil Burger just isn’t that appetizing. But then, neither was Boll Weevil. Wonder why they would choose a name like that.
Burger looks pretty good.
Are you gonna go to the new Bob’s Big Boy out at Parkway Plaza? (They also have one in Temecula). Now that’s a childhood memory. I want to go, but I’m kinda thinking it might spoil the memory.
Just fresh patty cooked to order and nice toasty bread. How hard can it be? Yet some place can’t do it right.
I understand completely, ed. Hope you can find a good one in Yuma.
I think originally it was called Cotton Patch, Stephen. Perhaps whomever took over was passive-aggressive…Everytime we have gone the El Cajon Big Boy, it’s crazy busy. I did want to do it, and will, just not for Burger Week. The Elias Brothers Big Boy-in the Detroit area are unchanged. {It’s Bob’s out here, Elias there and Shoney’s down South}.
You’d think everyone could, but so many can’t, Bill. I’m always happy when I find a good place.
More info. on this “tray of condiments” please, in the pic I see tubs with pickles/onions/etc. are you to tell me that people dip into these and top their own burgers? I can just see some kid sticking his/her dirty fingers into the pickle tub – GROSS!
Welcome to the commenting side of our blog, ALRUI. Yes, that is the Traditional Tray of Condiments…For more than 20 years at all Boll Weevils and their imitators. There are also forks and knives on that TToC. I’ve always seen parents taking items out of the containers for their children and never have been concerned. It’s kind of the same as the pickle jar on the table at DZAikens, or all the salsa bars at taco shops…or even the pickle area at Fred’s, as well as the condiments on every table at almost every Vietnamese restaurant where I eat.