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 [...]
Every January, we turn our eyes toward downtown Atlanta, recalling the world-changing legacy that was born when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walked these streets. Well, for the past several months, local cheeseburger chowhounds have been making a pilgrimage to his home neighborhood, where a new hotspot may be starting a legacy of its own. [...]
Two Minnesota men have been charged for grabbing a cheeseburger at one of Minneapolis’ hottest eateries on Monday. Their crime? Illegally parking their vehicles a few hundred feet away. But check out said vehicles: (That shot is from Jennifer Simonson of the Star Tribune.) The Champion 7FC of Hans Meyer and the Aeronca 7AC piloted [...]
One day I listed every fast-food burger joint I could think of. A cheeseburger fanatic, I figured I’d already hit every chain at one time or another. Boy, was I wrong. I must truly be a creature of habit, because I was shocked at how many establishments I’ve never been to. Some places simply aren’t [...]
Just when you thought the cheeseburger landscape couldn’t get more crowded, a new combatant in the burger wars has brought out their big guns. Hooters, famous for its 5-star cuisine and professional staff average bar food and buxom waitresses, has announced a new promotion that the chain calls “the best value in the restaurant industry [...]
Steak ‘n Shake was the first place my parents ever took me for cheeseburgers. I was 5 or 6, living in Indianapolis. I remember the brightly-lit diner-style restaurant. I remember them being open late (which, for me, probably meant past 8pm), so we could all go out after Dad got off work. I remember the [...]
Need a break from the winter blues? Have the holidays left you feeling a little grinchy? The Cheeseburger in Paradise chain thinks that a change in your latitude might just bring about a change in your attitude. They’re sending one lucky chowhound to Jamaica for a 5-day/4-night island getaway. All you have to do? Scrunch [...]
Back in my youth, my high school friends and I spent many a Saturday night rolling a fellow student’s trees in toilet paper. Once, when we knew the victim was safely out of town, we actually wrapped his entire house in quilted two-ply. As we got afterschool jobs, we eventually gained access to more elaborate [...]
Last week, when I heard that Checkers was giving away free cheeseburgers on 2 Fridays in December, I hit the web to find one near me. That ended disappointingly. But my interest was piqued by something else, an ad very similar to this: The quintessential cheeseburger paired with the legendary Philly cheesesteak? It was like [...]
So I had hoped to use today’s article to spread a little holiday cheeseburger cheer and tell you about a free lunch offer I’d accidentally tripped over. It seems that last Friday, December 11, there were some free Big Bufords being handed out at Checkers Drive-In Restaurants! Accompanying news stories promised a repeat performance this [...]
I’m a sucker for regional culinary quirks, those unique little twists that some places put on certain foods. In Pittsburgh, for example, they have this insanely tasty habit of putting French fries directly on their sandwiches. There’s a stellar mayonnaise-based white barbecue sauce that’s practically unheard of outside of northern Alabama. In my home state [...]
In September, I trashed the Baconator. But Wendy’s CEO promised a new and improved “premium bacon cheeseburger,” coming soon. By October, rumblings were heard about a better bun and applewood-smoked bacon. Even Wendy’s employees were leaving comments on this site, swearing that the new cheeseburger would be worth a return visit. That visit came last [...]
“… the children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of cheeseburgers danced in their heads…” For residents in 10 states across the South and Southwest, it just got a little easier (and a lot cheaper) to treat yourself to a holiday hamburger. The San Antonio-based chain Whataburger has launched a new promotion [...]
Pop princess Miley Cyrus turned 17 last week. And just in time for her birthday, she got a big fat dose of the real world when she stopped for some grub at a posh Manhattan burger bar. It seems when the actress-slash-singer-slash-flavor-of-the-month and a pal wanted a cheeseburger fix recently, they went to POP Burger [...]
According to a 2007 Wall Street Journal article, the best burger in America is served at a ramshackle 8-seat diner in a sketchy East Atlanta neighborhood. I’m embarrassed to admit that, despite living in Atlanta since 1994, I hadn’t even heard of the place until Raymond Sokolov’s list came out. But this past week, I [...]
Police in Portsmouth, New Hampshire have saved a man’s life by offering him a hamburger. Around 2 a.m. on November 19, Officer Scott Pearl and Detective Tim Black responded to a call regarding a man who had climbed to the top of the Interstate 95 bridge over the Piscataqua River, which serves as the border [...]
With just one long weekend in Big D, I had a small window of opportunity to do some cheeseburger taste testing. My Cowboys Stadium experience ended in a tie (great game, lame burger). None of the Smashburgers in Dallas had opened quite yet. I set out to find an awesome local burger with critical acclaim… [...]
In my last post, I lamented the lackluster cheeseburger being served at the sparkly new home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys. Perhaps a few of the players were unimpressed with the homefield concessions as well, because two gridiron gladiators have taken matters into their own meaty hands. Leonard Davis, the Cowboys’ 6-foot-6, 353-pound right guard, [...]
Everything, as the famous saying goes, is bigger in Texas. Nowhere in the Lone Star State is this maxim truer than in the city of Arlington, where the Dallas Cowboys opened their brand-new stadium a few months ago. At a total price of over 1 billion (yes, with a “B”) dollars, team owner Jerry Jones [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]