The Food Lab

The Food Lab Welcome to The Food Lab — the newest culinary playground from El Rey Group, where creativity, flavor, and innovation collide!

This is your all-access pass to a lineup of multiple ghost restaurant concepts that are about to shake up the CSRA food scene.

❗️🚨 $50 Smash Lab Burgers Giveaway 🚨❗️Run to La Cocina de El Rey in Grovetown 🍔🔥 Smash Lab Burgers is serving up some of...
04/29/2026

❗️🚨 $50 Smash Lab Burgers Giveaway 🚨❗️

Run to La Cocina de El Rey in Grovetown 🍔🔥 Smash Lab Burgers is serving up some of the best burgers in the CSRA, and they are an absolute must-try.

These burgers are incredible — messy, juicy, thick, stacked, and packed with flavor. Perfect for satisfying those munchies in the best way.
One lucky winner will receive a $50 gift card to enjoy these incredible burgers! 👏

Our favorites were the OG, Stoner Special, and Smash Belly — sooo good. We chose to make the OG Quesolicious skillet style, and it was the perfect cheesy bite.

You can order on DoorDash, but we loved enjoying them for dine-in at La Cocina de El Rey. Burgers + fresh chips + a fully stocked salsa bar + cold margaritas? Such a fun combo. 🍔🍟🍹

Available for dine-in from 3PM–closing 👏

Featured burgers: ⬇️
🍔 The OG
Two smash patties with grilled onions, pickles, and American cheese. We made this one Quesolicious skillet style with melted cheese.

🧀 The Cheese Reactor
Oaxaca + American cheese, pickles, and a potato bun covered in melted cheese.

🔥 Smash Belly
Pickles, lab sauce, American cheese, grilled jalapeños, and Oaxaca cheese.

🍍 Pineapple Manic
Grilled pineapple, ham, provolone, grilled onions, pickles, and lab sauce.

🌶️ The Toxic One
House-made chorizo, grilled jalapeños, Oaxaca cheese, chipotle mayo, lab sauce, grilled onions, and pickles.

🤯 Stoner Special
Lab sauce, grilled onions, pickles, brisket, barbacoa, and jalapeño poppers.

🛠️ Build-a-Smash
Start with The OG and add extras like bacon, pineapple, onion rings, Oaxaca cheese, jalapeños, chorizo, brisket, barbacoa, avocado, fried egg, and more.
All burgers come with fries or tater tots 🍟

🧀 Any burger can be made “Quesolicious” & served on a skillet with melted cheese.

📍 La Cocina de El Rey — 419 Lewiston Rd #1, Grovetown, GA
🚗 Available on DoorDash

How to enter: ⬇️
1️⃣ Like this post
2️⃣ Follow La Cocina De El Rey and The Food Lab
3️⃣ Tag your favorite burger buddy
4️⃣ Share for an additional entry

Winner announced Wednesday, May 6th.
No purchase necessary. Good luck! 🍔🔥

Taqueria El Rey The Munchies Snacks

04/25/2026

When you are you own camera man & editor lmao 🤣
The Stoner Special
(2) beef patties
Slow cooked brisket barbacoa
Jalapeño poppers stuff with cream cheese
Grilled onions cheese pickles & lkts of lab sauce lots lol ask for extra la. Sauce trust me

04/25/2026

Big news, friends!!! 🔥🍔🍹
You asked… and we listened!!!

Starting THIS MONDAY, Smash Lab burgers will officially be available for dine-in La Cocina De El Rey (3-closing )bringing you the best of both worlds…
Juicy burgers + ice-cold margaritas = the ultimate combo 🤪 🍔🍟🍹

03/09/2026

The Big Papi 🍔🐷
6 beef patties.
Pickles.
Grilled onions.
Cheese.
An absolutely illegal amount of Lab Sauce.
As the CEO of Smash Lab, sometimes I have to make very difficult business decisions…
Like sacrificing myself to test this monster. 🤣
Was it dangerous? Yes.
Did I regret it? Absolutely not.
Now the real question is…
Who in Augusta thinks they can actually finish The Big Papi? 👀
Tag the friend that talks big but would tap out after 2 bites. 🤣🔥

⚠️ WARNING: THIS BURGER IS NOT FOR THE WEAK.Meet THE BIG PAPI from The Smash Lab 🍔🔥6 Chuck & Short Rib Smash PattiesPick...
03/09/2026

⚠️ WARNING: THIS BURGER IS NOT FOR THE WEAK.

Meet THE BIG PAPI from The Smash Lab 🍔🔥

6 Chuck & Short Rib Smash Patties
Pickles
Melted Cheese
Grilled Onions
And an irresponsible amount of Lab Sauce dripping everywhere.

This ain’t a burger…
This is a life decision.

Order it only if you dare.
And if you finish it… respect. 👑
Looks for us on DoorDash

03/07/2026

So apparently CEOs are supposed to taste their burgers on camera now…
Cool.
As CEO of Smash Lab Burgers, let me introduce you to one of our monsters:
🧀 The Cheese Reactor
2 smash patties
Asadero + Oaxaca cheese
bacon
grilled onions
pickles
potato bun
Then we melt provolone over the entire burger like a cheese blanket.
Some CEOs run meetings.
I run burger experiments.

Find us on DoorDash as The Smash Lab Burgers 🍔
Ps. Don't skip on the Lab Sauce 🤤

03/03/2026

Since CEOs are going viral tasting their own burgers…
I figured the CEO of Smash Lab Burgers should do the same.
I even left the bloopers in the video… because we don’t have a PR team editing things out. 🤣
Just a CEO…
The wife behind the camera…
and a burger that didn’t survive the test. 🍔💀
Quality control is brutal around here.
Order your Smash lab Burger 🍔 now
https://www.doordash.com/store/35961451?utm_source=mx_share_android

Would you look at this , isn’t cool !Look at this… 🥹We’ve been quiet, but we’ve been working.Soon y’all will be able to ...
02/18/2026

Would you look at this , isn’t cool !
Look at this… 🥹

We’ve been quiet, but we’ve been working.

Soon y’all will be able to grab & go meals, frozen meals, family packs you can pop in the oven and finish at home like you cooked it yourself. We’re even teaming up with a vending machine company so you can grab our food, reheat it in one of our microwaves or air fryers, and keep it moving.

7 menus coming out of this ghost kitchen.
Seven. Different. Concepts.

This is new territory for us.
It’s scary. It’s exciting. It’s growth.

We’ve got a lot going on behind these walls, and we can’t wait to share it with y’all.

Thank you for rocking with us while we build 🖤

— Mito

🔥 BIG PAPI ENERGY 🔥Meet The Big Papi 🍔Juicy smash patties, melted cheese dripping everywhere, grilled onions, pickles, a...
12/26/2025

🔥 BIG PAPI ENERGY 🔥

Meet The Big Papi 🍔
Juicy smash patties, melted cheese dripping everywhere, grilled onions, pickles, and that toasted bun doing its thing 😮‍💨
Yeah… this one hits different.

If you haven’t tried Smash Lab Burgers yet, this is your sign 👀
👉 Tap the link, place your order, and see what all the hype is about.

📲 Order online here:🔥

https://order.online/business/smash-lab-burgers-14722617

Do us a favor👇
✔️ Place your order
✔️ Take that first bite
✔️ Come back and tell us if the Big Papi didn’t slap 💥
Take a picture or a video Destroying one of our Burgers for a chance to win a Big Papi on Us

🍔🔥

Here's another mouth watering burger 🍔 The Pineapple Panic 🍍 (2) smash patties , grilled onions, pickles, lab sauce 🤤 g...
11/13/2025

Here's another mouth watering burger 🍔

The Pineapple Panic 🍍
(2) smash patties , grilled onions, pickles, lab sauce 🤤 grilled pineapple rings , ham & Provolone cheese 🧀
Place your order on DoorDash now we are open 🥴🤤🍔🧀

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3113 Washington Road
Augusta, GA
30907

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