
About Short's Burger & Shine
Ornate campus-adjacent eatery serving gourmet beef & black-bean burgers plus local craft beers.
What People Are Saying
from Google"What a wonderful place this is. I have never seen a larger choice of burgers and beers than what they have. The quantities are huge and unless you are really starving, I’m not sure you can finish one whole thing. The food is delicious, loved it. More than that is the company of people working there. A big shout out to Ryan, Nick and Lindsy for a great conversation. You guys are really cool and I thoroughly enjoyed being there. Would definitely recommend everyone to go at least once."
"Visited the restaurant early afternoon for a late lunch and was not disappointed. A lot of burger options on the menu, as well as other items. Service was great and staff was friendly. Ordered the Burnside burger and food came out quickly and was very good. The burger meat itself was tasty and wasn't just covered up by the other ingredients. Fries were also good."
"Been at Shorts before and the burgers were bigger and better tasting. This time in (Feb '23) I was disappointed. Burger was smaller, bread is different. The fries were still good."
"It’s downtown, the food I received was below mediocre, I got the tingley and substituted the burger for chicken, that may be my fault and I will return to get a burger but the chicken is completely unseasoned though it was cooked very well, most of the fries were chewy and undercooked and one of them was to the point of raw potatoes, the green chili sauce is practically flavorless, the guac is mostly avocado taste which to me is perfect but others may prefer otherwise, the ranch is comparable to hidden valley, lettuce was slightly wilted but nothing egregious, mango sauce was exactly what i expected and was pretty good, I’d give the cooked fries a 4 star but so many were so undercooked it’s an overall 2 for the fries, the chicken was literally plain chicken which id score a three stars for the sandwich overall, servers did their job but the tables are really dirty which is not good, decoration of the place was really nice, will try burgers at other location. This place was not worth the $20 you pretty much have to spend"
"The quality of the food has tanked since eating here over a year ago. Stale buns, frozen patties (yes, frozen), and an absurdly small amount of bun spread that seemed like a joke. My husband ordered medium rare and I ordered well done and they came out the same). Thank heavens for their signature sauce to mask the burger taste. Such a shame because the burgers used to be top notch."
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