Harvey’s

I was at Harvey’s on New Year’s Day and yes the burgers are awesome because you get the they way you want them but that’s not why I’m giving them a 5. I was sitting down on break and the Manager comes by to every table and asked specifically how they liked their food. He asked me how I liked the banana peppers and jalapeño peppers in my burger with the bbq sauce… Went up the the guys a few tables down from me and asked them how everything was then started talking sports with them. I’m in the service industry and I found it incredibly sweet and genuine of this man. I will definitely be back soon, he elevated this place from just being another order taking burger joint to someone who takes pride in what they own/​do.

I like Harvey’s but the bathroom here is falling apart and not fixed for over 3 months. If they don’t care about that, what else do they not care about? Food safety? Employee hygiene? How can you wash your hands in that bathroom? If you like there food and don’t mind the cold dinning area or a bathroom in disrepair than this is the place for you.
Sad I hope that they don’t close because of the owners lack of caring.
This place might follow C-​Loves on Denman that recently closed, but at least this place has consistent business hours.

Came here last week for lunch. They usually have coupons online so make sure you check those out and have them ready on your smartphone. The burgers and fries here are fairly standard for a fast food restaurant. The meat is better than McDonald’s or Burger King, but you are paying a bit more too. You get to customize your burger in terms of what toppings of sauce you like. Only downside is that for a fast food joint, the food does take a little while, but that’s because they are making it on the spot for you. So it’s kind of an awkward wait after you place your order and before you get to choose your toppings.

Just went in here for fries earlier and fell in love with it. Got frings ($ 2.99) which comes with fries and onion rings and they were fresh and crispy. It was so delicious. The restaurant and washrooms were clean as well. It’s been a long time I haven’t tried Harvey’s.
The portion wasn’t big as Costco, but it was good. Service was fast. I found their milkshakes very tempting. Their milk shakes are $ 1.89 till Aug23rd and only applies to classic milkshake flavours. They also have Nutella milkshake and wonder what it tastes like.

I’ve been hankering to go to Harvey’s for a while and low and behold I saw a coupon in the mail. An Angus burger, fries (onion rings in my case) and a fountain drink for $ 5.99. Pretty fair deal!
Harvey’s is much more prevalent back east. After my month and a half stay out in our nation’s capital, I grew to like Harvey’s. I looked on line and there are 2 Harvey’s restaurants in greater Vancouver. Lucky for me one of them is downtown and pretty close to where I live.
In my fair opinion Harvey’s is the Best ‘fast food’ burger joint! It’s a lot better than the tried and true burger joints like… McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s… so on! Harvey’s takes the time to cook your burger for you right in front of you! Your burger hasn’t be sitting under a heat lamp for 20 minutes! That freshness makes all the difference! Next Harvey’s builds your burger from scratch: you tell them the sauces and condiments you want and they build your burger right in front of you!
My burger today was awesome! Fresh, ho, t tasty, and juicy! Love it! The Onion rings were really good too! Greasy in a good way!
I don’t eat fast food too often, but if I do I prefer Harvey’s!

Went in for a simple burger and fries one late night, was a little busy. My friends ordered and got their food. I paid and didn’t take my receipt, and started my 35 minute wait in line. The workers at this branch took their sweet time with only a few orders.
I finally get to the end of the line and they don’t have my order slip and tell me they don’t know what happened, tells me to go to the start of the line. The person at cashier was someone new, and argued with me for another 10 minutes asking me for my receipt.
He finally agrees to give me my order that I’ve already waited forever for. Proceeds to tell me it’ll be a bit of await and the people in front of me will come first. After showing my frustration, plus my friends getting impatient, they rush my order 1^st.
I’ll never go back here. Such an ordeal

My first ever Harvey’s burger. I had no idea what Harvey’s was all about, until today. Pick your toppings — very attractive! Except the fact that the burgers are not as good as, say, Wendy’s?
The girls were friendly enough. Burgers made to order, which is nice. The vegetables sit out for a long time without hydration; maybe they should think about that. Onion rings were thin. The fries could be better, crispier?
It won’t matter to most people, but I must point out that the fountain is Pepsi! Even though Coca-​Cola reigns as the house favourite around here, I’m still a Pepsi girl. It was too bad I’d already asked for a coffee this time. I’ll know for next time (if there is one).
The floors were quite clean. No squeaky soda messes by the fountain. The counters were all sufficiently neat and tidy.

Burgers were huge unlike other burger fast food joints that advertise huge burgers and you end up getting the world’s smallest burger.
Onion rings were delicious and sodas were all you can drink.
Price was okay.

I really like this Harvey’s. I think the customer service must have improved since some of the reviews. The girls at the front seem to be on top of it.

Great veggie burger /​good prices and friendly staff. Good for a fast food restaurant. Really good to have the calories available online if your trying to be careful. So all in all great to eat fast food without the calories that comes from other establishments.

As far as fast food is concerned this is slightly under rated and often missed with consideration, however, it is okay. It is not top of the line but okay. Service is very miss. They have more specials in comparison to the other shops. They are open late.

The burger was ok, it just tastes like the pre made frozen patties you get at grocery store. The dudes that work here are straight bozo. They forgot to give us our drinks and were dinkin around in the back, so we just took our own cups. He claimed they «didn’t have» BBQ sauce. The garbage cans were over flowing, and there was shit all over the floor.

No way.
Yeah it was my first time ever at Harvey’s…
If I want greasy spoon food I end up at the triple O’s on Hamilton St. downtown.
But I did tonight cuz the slice on Granville and Smithe
was fresh but with a very limited selection.
Mostly peperoni or ground beef-​ranch sauce on the top.
I grab the fish burger combo.
The ingredient and the fries was really fresh and yummy.
Service was lil bit slow and the place was kinda of empty.
The service was friendly tough and the place was clean.
As we was watching the play off (LA vs NY) at home but ran out food…
We decided to eat there cuz they got a big TV screen!
Hooray! Harvey’s save the day.

their first month in business, they complained to the media about food trucks ‘killing their business’, sobbing how they had to cut back on their staff and inventory.
Read a little further and the complaint was really about a rogue hotdog vendor that would have been a problem even without the food trucks, and really Harvey’s was the newcomer– AND from a rational business perspective it was easy to read that the owner most likely over projected his initial sales.
Wrote an email to the newspapers covering the issue (pointing out all this AND the fact that successful restaurants have found food trucks a suitable vehicle to market their store front locations, as well as some food truck vendors using their trucks to transition into bricks and mortar locations), I resolved to familiarize myself with the location for further research.
Suspiciously absent in comparison to the home depot (visited langley) locations was the fixings bar, thus leaving me with a boring burger to eat in a lobby devoid of atmosphere.
My research completed, I found that while Harvey’s at the home depot has a great tasting, fresh grilled burger with a full fixings bar and great staff, none of this was present at granville. Give me a food truck any day! Better yet, put a harvey’s portable grill stand on the street corner, just up from here.
Score: harvey’s granville, 0.

Super slow service. Each time I’ve been here it seems like the employee started the job yesterday morning. They kind of know what to do but are super slow.
On the plus side we finally have a Harvey’s that’s not in a Home Depot — seems like that’s all that was available in Western Canada for the past 10 years. Why did it take Harvey’s 20 years to make it to Vancouver — not like we have a ton of comfort food.

I don’t think I have ever seen a stand alone ‘Harvey’s’ in Vancouver if there ever was one, all I know is having these burgers in Home Depot locations, and last time I was sitting at one of these seperate Harvey’s joints was on Front Street in Toronto. So, the strange orange logo’d fast food joint has decided to join the block of fast eats and night clubs. Well I wasn’t looking to pre-​eat before the club, and to solve a hangover, I just needed a quick bite before catching Trek at the Scotiabank Theatre and we walked by this place twice before deciding to, ahem, trek our way in here to beam down some food into our empty stomachs.
My brother noticed the billboard outside, two burgers and a drink for $ 3.99, always on the lookout for cheap in situations like this… it was either here, or walk a block up to McDonald’s, ah the hell with it, so we zipped in. Not expecting anything, I mean how could you, we walked into a pretty comfortably empty fast food joint. The big screen tv was playing game 7 of the Heat and Pacers, the order area for the food was all the way in the back. It’s a pretty simple setup, cash register till on the left side, order your food by looking at the simple pictured in square’s menu above and pay. If you order a drink you get an empty cup to brew your swampwater like soda-​pop while you sit around, or walk around (take-​out) and eat your foods, if you have ordered any. There is a difference though, and that is the finished product of their burgers, the phrase ‘make it your way’ is definitely more truer here. There is an area that, after your burgers are flame grilled (hey the website shows this!!) come to, with plain bun and burger coming in a wrapper, and ready to be ‘dressed’ by what your suggestion or taste is on this day, from lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, banana peppers, to ketchup, mustard, mayo, relish, etc… however you want it.
It was more like a childhood experience when I bit into my burger, it tasted like those cheap burger patties you had at one of those friend or family bbq’s where they probably got the case lot meat for a good deal, and then toasted the bun on the same grill, it makes all the difference having a toasty bun! We didn’t go for the adding cheese option, but from what the poster says (and you know they don’t like) it is 100% chedder cheese, maybe next time. The burger tasted good, and while we were waiting for our food, our other friend called to know where we were, and decided to come along and eat, this is where I got a chance to try their fries, and I can say the fries are pretty damn good… along the extra battered lines of BK and KFC, makes me wonder how the poutine is now.
If you are plannig to make a trip to this place, go online first and print some coupons… never seen them send em out… but I see them on the site to print out or show on your smartphone. If I ever need fast food again, am around this area… I probably would come here as an alternative, and at least the place is clean, comfortable and has a tv playing sports!

The day I discovered the new Harvey’s on Granville in DT Vancouver, I had a moment.
It is fittingly located on the very sidewalk I used to stroll in those life forming years that immediately follow leaving home. We used to take transit for 90 minutes both ways to the Harvey’s in the Home Depots of Surrey and Richmond. We just wanted a burger that looked like the picture… it was about non conformity or something.
For 20 years I have waited for a Harvey’s that is accessible on a regular basis. My first burger at this dream come true location was a perfect Canadian Four Cheese with most of the works. My first bite tasted like it did in the day so brilliantly that I swear I could hear Kurt Cobain wafting about my head. The best fast food burger joint ever.
Fantastic onion rings too.
Go. Eat. Be happy!

The Positive:
– Super friendly service — totally unexpected in a fast food joint. Wow.
– Cheap. Not McD’s cheap, but also not McD’s fake. Under $ 5 for a burger ain’t bad.
– You get to pick some toppings for your burger. Toppings are limited, although they carry the standards (ketchup, mayo, mustard, relish, onions, peppers, pickles, lettuce, tomato)
– They also have a chicken burger, a veggie burger, and a chicken salad. Oh, and poutine. Of course.
The Negative:
– Pretty mediocre burger.
– Rubbery patty. I agree with Sam L about the patty’s weird texture. Maybe this is only true of the original, not the great Canadian burger patty which is thicker.
Hrm. I don’t get it, but then I’m not Canadian and so I don’t have the nostalgia associated with this chain that other east coasters might have. In my case, I can’t wait for Five Guys to open up.

COUPON ALERT: if you live in the DT core check your mailbox for your free Harvey’s burger coupon. FREE FOOD!!!
The Hype:
«Harvey’s is Canada’s best burger»
The Reality:
Why is it any food from your childhood always tasted better back then?
The Review:
KEY POINT: Odd location, with high ceilings and heavy fan noise.
KEY POINT: Burger is made just for you on a flame grill, and they build it for you, in front of you.
KEY POINT: The patty is just odd. Rubbery I think Sam L. mentions. It’s not juicy and it’s hella dry.
LAST POINT:
It’s a good burger, but at $ 3.99 It’s pricey, yet far better than I had at In-​N-​Out or 5 guys…
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Yeeeeeeeeah! I may be sentimental about this, but Harvey’s is seriously as good as I remember. Sure the cost has gone up from when I was a kid, but the food tastes as good as it’s always been. And really, those onion rings are GOLD. I absolutely love their onion rings.
Their burgers are delicious too, and I love that you can choose your toppings. Just the right amount of ketchup or mustard, as many pickles as your heart desires, and even some delicious chipotle sauce if you want some kick.
For fast food, it’s about as deliciously fancy as you can get. Sure it’s a few bucks more, but I’m certainly happy with this new addition on Granville. Welcome!