O Canada! Move over, Jim Carrey. Step aside, Barenaked Ladies. Time’s up, Wayne Gretzky. There’s a new “biggest thing ever” to come out of the Great White North. And it’s got a hundred-pound bun. That’s the new World’s Biggest Burger, or at least that’s the title it’s expected to claim when the Guinness folks get [...]
Back in August, after Business Week published a “Most Innovative Burgers” list, I kind of pissed in celebrichef Richard Blais’ cornflakes. The molecular-gastronomist-slash-foodie-rockstar behind Atlanta’s Flip Burger Boutique had an entry on the list, and I was none too impressed. About his Pate Melt Burger, I scoffed, “…if veal and pork pate topped with lingonberries [...]
Scented candles are a big stinkin’ deal. Go to a specialty megastore like Bed Bath & Beyond or the housewares department at Target, and your olfactory senses will kick into overdrive before you even get both feet in the candle aisle. With the right candle, you can make your living room smell like just about [...]
As the primary chef in our household, I’m the one responsible for putting dinner on the table on a nightly basis. And with a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old in the house, finding meal options that actually get eaten can be a challenge. But I’ve never had a complaint when cheeseburger pie is on the menu. [...]
The restaurant that boasts over 200 items on its menu is cooking up 6 new ones. The Cheesecake Factory, the popular California-based chain best-known for gargantuan portions, thirty-some cheesecake flavors at any given time, and positively palatial dining rooms, has introduced half a dozen new cheeseburgers to its already-extensive roster of entrées. To celebrate the [...]
The ongoing burger wars have claimed another casualty. Popular chain Fuddruckers (through parent company Magic Brands) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it sells its $40 million worth of assets to a Florida-based company. While none of the 135 franchisee-owned restaurants will be affected, 24 of the 85 corporate-owned Fuddruckers will close by [...]
To say that The Varsity is an Atlanta landmark is an understatement. “Institution” is a more apropos word to describe this 82-year-old, two-story, full-city-block-long hot dog joint that serves 2 miles of frankfurters EVERY DAY. I call it a hot dog joint because that’s what the World’s Largest Drive-In is best known for: greasy little [...]
Finally. For all of us unapologetic carnivores who’ve suffered the tsk-tsk-tsking from “concerned” and “conscientious” friends about the irreparable and unspeakably evil things we’re doing to our bodies with every cheeseburger we suck down, there’s at long last some ammunition to fire back with. A report released this week by a Wisconsin-based agricultural nonprofit group [...]
Funny how we mythologize moments from our past. That girl I made out with in the Holiday Inn hot tub in college probably wasn’t as cover-girl gorgeous as I’ve built her up to be over the years. That last night in Paris in 1988, if I could re-live it, certainly wouldn’t be as wild and [...]
As a rule, any press release put out by a bunch called The Cancer Project is probably gonna be a real downer. I’m sure that plenty of folks scan a list of the “Five Most Unhealthful Gourmet Burgers” and shake their heads disapprovingly at the gastronomical hand grenades included therein. That’s what the Washington, DC-based [...]
Say you’re a movie junkie. Not a professional film critic, but a good judge of what at your local cineplex is good and what’s crap. How would you react if someone said that an independent student film you’ve never heard of is better than “The Godfather?” Welcome to my state of mind not too long [...]
We’re just hours away from opening day of baseball season, which means chowhounds like us can soon start taking BP- biting practice- on the year’s new stadium concession stand offerings. One of the most eagerly-awaited debuts in the major leagues for the 2010 season is in downtown Minneapolis, where the Twins are set to open [...]
Order a fast-food cheeseburger these days, and you’ve got some hard choices to make. American or Swiss? Bacon or mushrooms? Ketchup or mustard? Well, a Florida man can now add a new one: Phillips-head or flat-head? When Chase Eversole bit into his Bacon Double Cheeseburger last week, he got more than a mouthful. He got [...]
Back in October of last year, we told you about Burger King’s efforts to step up the burger experience for hungry customers with a restaurant redesign for its 12,000 locations. Part of that revamp was to include shiny new “flexible batch broilers” that would allow BK kitchens to crank out extra-thick burgers, grilled chicken and [...]
Grilling backyard burgers is damn near sacred to me. I definitely subscribe to the whole “approach love and cooking with reckless abandon” philosophy, but only to a point. After I spend an afternoon manning the grill, they had better be really good. Taking one bite and shrugging off a new cheeseburger twist as a failed [...]
Oh, the burger blotter just keeps growing and growing. There was the Kansas City woman who trashed a Mickey D’s when her order got screwed up. There were the dudes who landed their small-engine planes on a frozen lake in the middle of Minneapolis to grab lunch at a local burger bar. There was the [...]
Sandra Bullock, Hollywood superstar, with almost 40 film credits on her resume, was just hours away from the biggest moment of her career. She was up for an Academy Award for her lead role in “The Blind Side,” part of a list of nominees that included perhaps the greatest actor in history. She was the [...]
Last Thursday, while the overexposed celebrichefs and starry-eyed foodie gawkers were noshing their way through Rachael Ray’s VIP event in Miami, I decided to have my own personal burger bash at my favorite spot, the Vortex Bar & Grill. While their location in Midtown Atlanta isn’t as in-your-face crazy as the Little Five Points store [...]
Friday, March 5 should be honored as a momentous day for all of us in BurgerWorld. It was on that date in 1935 that the glorious cheeseburger was born. That is, if you believe one version of the story. If you head to 2776 North Speer Boulevard in Denver today, you’ll find Key Bank. In [...]
Twenty-seven top chefs from around the globe descended on Miami last week to take part in the 2010 Burger Bash, part of the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. And while beermaker Amstel Light is the event’s title sponsor, it’s generally seen as media darling Rachael Ray’s party. Here she is cramming one [...]
It was once famously said that “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” Well, if the Brits are looking to re-build, they may be starting with this behemoth of a burger, which practically has its own gravitational pull. It’s obviously no Mallie’s, but this beastly burg actually gets cooked up and sold to real [...]
Consider me royally disappointed with the King’s latest declaration. Burger King has announced that their $1 Double Cheeseburger will cost $1.19, beginning April 20. Franchise owners had complained since the Double Cheeseburger’s introduction in October that they were losing more than a dime on every one that was sold. (Waaah. Ask one of them how [...]
(photo: Getty Images) “Congratulations, Alexandre Bilodeau… you just won the first-ever Canadian gold medal on native soil! What are you going to do now?” “I’m going to… McDonald’s?!?“ That’s exactly what he did. The 22-year-old freestyle skier from Montreal torched the moguls course this past Sunday night to win the gold. As Bob Costas & [...]
In the mood for a new cheeseburger? Start poking around online and leafing through cookbooks, and it won’t take you long to find all kinds of “secret ingredients” that promise to make your next homemade burger a culinary masterpiece. Hell, this site has a bunch of them. Walnuts, cola, cherries, curry powder, pepperoni: you name [...]
Prepping for my annual Super Bowl Buffet, I was faced with a dilemma. Given my “job” as official cheeseburger scribe of this website (a job which still elicits a response that usually goes something like, “You do WHAT? And they PAY you for that?!?”), I felt like cheebies should somehow be represented at this year’s [...]
In trying to jump-start the Italian economy, fast-food giant McDonald’s has ignited a firestorm of controversy. Last week in Rome marked the debut of a new cheeseburger called the McItaly: The square burger is topped with Asiago cheese, artichoke spread, and lettuce: all made in Italy, along with the ground beef and even the bread. [...]
Start a list of ultimate “comfort foods.” How soon do you get to “grilled cheese sandwich?” Top 10? Top 5? Maybe even sooner? The burgermeisters at Carl’s Jr. must think so, too, based on their latest cheeseburger offering, the Grilled Cheese Bacon Burger: That’s 4 gooey slices of melted American and Swiss cheeses, bacon, mayo, [...]
I’m generally pretty skeptical about non-cheeseburger cheeseburgers. You know, cheeseburger pizzas, cheeseburger pies, cheeseburger-inspired soups, etc. I did give Paula Deen’s bacon cheeseburger meatloaf a whirl once… and wished I hadn’t. To be honest, most knockoffs suck. If you want a cheeseburger, get a damn cheeseburger. It’s not a difficult item to get your hands [...]
All of Burgerworld is abuzz these days about the King’s latest Whopper of a proclamation. Late last week, Burger King announced that you’ll soon be able to get an ice-cold beer with your cheeseburger at its new location, opening in Miami’s South Beach district in February. But before you freak out (as many have already) [...]
We’ve all been there. You’ve had a rough day and stop by a fast food joint to grab a quick bite. Maybe your boss chewed your ass out. Maybe traffic sucked. Maybe the kid behind the counter rubbed you the wrong way when he took your order. Whatever the cause, you’re already at the breaking [...]