When I mention the Denny’s restaurant chain, what’s the first thing you think of? Probably the Grand Slam breakfast (although I was always a Moons Over My Hammy man myself). Or maybe their famous free-meal-on-your-birthday promotion, despite the fact that they scrapped the giveaways in 1993. What probably doesn’t spring to mind is their cheeseburger. [...]
I’d been waiting for months to get back to the Vortex Bar and Grill in Atlanta’s uber-funky Little Five Points neighborhood. Living up in the ‘burbs with my white picket fence and my homeowners’ association dues and a minivan in my garage, swinging by my all-time favorite burger spot isn’t as simple as I’d like. [...]
Burger King has unleashed a gastronomical Godzilla on the people of Japan. In a cross-promotion with Microsoft to celebrate the debut of Windows 7, BKs across the Land of the Rising Sun have been offering customers a 7-patty Whopper. At five inches tall and well over two thousand calories, devouring this beefy behemoth is obviously [...]
O’Charley’s is one of those places that I never think about, although I could hit it with a baseball from the grocery store, the Target, and the drugstore I frequent. There are 230+ locations in 20 states, but even if you’re listing just the “apostrophe-s” casual dining joints (Applebee’s, Chili’s, Friday’s, et al.), O’Charley’s is [...]
Burger King wrapped up a summer-long ad campaign this week by administering a polygraph test (commonly called a “lie detector test”) to NASCAR driver Tony Stewart. The point? To see if the BK spokesman really loves the Whopper cheeseburger as much as he claims in recent TV ads.
Anyone who has ever watched NASCAR knows that [...]
There are few things I enjoy more than firing up my backyard grill and cooking outdoors. It’s even better when I’m trying out a new recipe I’m particularly excited about. If the recipe in question is for a twist on the classic cheeseburger, I’m positively giddy. With good reason, since my grated cheeseburgers and Jucy [...]
At this years food celebration known as The Big E, you saw all kinds of crazy foods on display. None more exciting than the Craz-E burger with donuts and bacon.
“The Home of the Whopper” is getting a whopper of a renovation. Burger King has announced plans to give its 12,000 locations around the world a dramatic new look that’s being described with decidedly non-fast-food adjectives like “edgy” and “futuristic.”
The chain’s new design, codenamed “20/20,” will introduce upscale features like rotating red flame chandeliers, LCD [...]
The “fast-casual” boom continues. That’s restaurantspeak for that middle-ground kind of place that’s not fast food… but not an order-from-a-waiter-leave-a-tip-when-you’re-done kind of eatery.
Fuddruckers basically invented the fast casual category. Five Guys has turned it into a phenomenon. Maybe the concept just works better for cheeseburgers than any other cuisine. Hoity-toity, linen-napkin establishments offer burgers, but [...]
Anyone who has ever been handed the keys to the company car has done it at one time or another. Hell, I’ve done it. While out making a delivery, it was not uncommon for me to swing off and grab a bite to eat or even run a personal errand while on the clock. No [...]
Competitive eating’s Beast from the East is back. Takeru Kobayashi destroyed the field in Chattanooga this past weekend to win the Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship in decisive fashion.
I’ve been looking for an excuse to visit my cousin in Minneapolis to try the famous Jucy Lucy. But the itinerary just grew. Check out this upscale Twin Cities joint called Burger Jones.
It’s a slick, ultra-hipster-cool new restaurant that opened a few months ago (in a space that was formerly a decidedly un-slick, un-ultra-hipster-cool Applebee’s), [...]
My first time at Fuddruckers, I was visiting cousins in the big city of Minneapolis in the early ’80s. At the time, to a 10-year-old from small-town Indiana, Fuddruckers was pure sensory overload. The buzzing, beeping, and strobe-light flashing of a bank of arcade games. Eye-popping neon everywhere. Random posters and pictures and musical instruments [...]
In my very first post on this site, I theorized that there isn’t really a cheeseburger capital of the world, the way there’s a BBQ Belt or a Tex-Mex Mecca. While I suggested that the cheeseburger is so universal that there isn’t just one place that can lay claim to doing it biggest and best, [...]
When McDonald’s announced the debut of their new Angus Third Pounders in July, who knew it would lead to an all-out cheeseburger street fight? Hardee’s (or Carl’s Jr., depending on where you live) has rolled out a new ad campaign that has Mickey D’s new sandwich squarely in their crosshairs.
The spot features an actor as [...]
It’s that time of year once again when iron-willed gladiators do battle in a supreme challenge of body and mind, when physical limits are pushed past the breaking point, when years of hard work and single-minded preparation culminate in a few moments of violent intensity, when the weak are cast aside in shameful defeat while [...]
Like so many of us, I fired up my grill this Labor Day weekend to celebrate the unofficial end of summer. And while I had a definite taste for cheeseburgers, I wanted to try something just a little different. Even though grating fresh cheese into the patties has become my favorite way of doing cheebies [...]
Red Robin professes to be the “gourmet burger expert for 40 years,” according to their website. Maybe so, since they first offered a cheeseburger topped with a fried egg back in 1973, beating my beloved Vortex Bar & Grill to the cholesterol-laden punch by two decades or so. But apparently even the 2009 “Best Burger [...]
By all rights, I should absolutely adore the Baconator from Wendy’s. Two quarter-pound patties (”Fresh, never frozen,” like the ad says), 2 slices of American cheese, six strips of hickory-smoked bacon, and a so-bad-it’s-kinda-clever-in-that-hokey-B-movie-kind-of-way name. I mean, look at this thing as it’s pictured on the menu:
The Baconator should be the best fast-food cheeseburger on [...]
Man, THAT reached a fever pitch in a hurry, didn’t it? If you’ve been anywhere in cyberspace this week, you’ve no doubt been inundated with stories about the latest Sign of the American Culture Apocalypse, being cooked up in a few select KFC kitchens in Omaha and Providence. I’m talking about the new sandwich they’re [...]
In my last post, I vented on some burgers that were being hailed as “innovative” by a big, high-falutin’ publication. It occurred to me after the fact that maybe I was too quick to judge. Veal and pork pate may not be my thing, but, hey, if that’s how you want to get your cheeseburger [...]
As regular cheese-burger.net readers may have noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a simplicity kick lately. (See Five Guys, Redamak’s, Harold’s, etc.) Gargantuan burgers with bizarro toppings have their place, and there are times when I crave the craziness. (God knows a few of those Cheese and Burger Society offerings got me all drooly.) [...]
Here at cheese-burger.net, we’re always on the lookout for new ways to get our cheeseburger fix. Today, we stumbled across a new burger joint, with one huge difference. Okay, maybe two.
Baby’s Badass Burgers is a Los-Angeles-based outfit that just opened up last week. But their address changes every day. That’s because Baby’s Badass Burgers operates [...]
The first time I saw Five Guys Burger and Fries was about 3 years ago, more or less. I don’t remember exactly, because it didn’t make an impression on me. I didn’t try it; this was a looking-around-at-a-stop-light moment when I noticed the storefront sign at some generic strip mall. I thought at the time [...]
There’s a fantastic new website out there for cheeseburger lovers. The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board has created the Cheese & Burger Society. The website is a graphics-heavy feast for the eyes that spotlights 30 different extreme cheeseburgers that all feature some type of Wisconsin cheese.
The burgs are displayed on a series of virtual flip-cards, as [...]
With summer quickly coming to an end, and Sydney, my six-year-old daughter, just days away from 1st grade, I decided to take her out for a cheeseburger lunch this past week.
I really wrestled with where to take her. The Vortex, home of my B.C.O.M.L., was out, since they don’t allow minors. I really wanted to [...]
If you’re looking to satisfy your cheeseburger craving with the latest exotic offering, you may have to get a new passport. Three Saudi Arabian brothers in the capital city of Riyadh have started a fast-food restaurant called Local Hashi Meals, and they’ve introduced hashi burgers to the Saudi people.
“Hashi” is the Saudi word for baby [...]
The Michigan city of New Buffalo describes itself as “a modern but quaint shoreline resort community.” It’s located in the very corner where the states of Indiana and Michigan meet up with Lake Michigan. There are just barely over 2,000 residents. It’s the kind of place that’s absolutely hopping for half of the year, and [...]
The West Michigan Whitecaps hosted two different visiting competitors on July 15. The first was the Peoria Chiefs. The other- the one most of the 7,921 fans seemed to be more interested in- was Adam Richman. The host of the Travel Channel series Man v. Food came to Grand Rapids to take on the suddenly-legendary [...]
I ran across a recipe for Paula Deen’s Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf, I thought maybe I’d been too hard on her. Maybe she’s different. I mean, break it down word-by-word. Bacon? Um, yeah. Cheeseburger? Of course. Meatloaf?