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Burger Tour: East LA 2007-10-14 23:52:00 The Burger
Blogger is still out there lurking in East LA with the BurgerHoover. He is currently in Mexico touring and getting us pics of Hamburguesa's, but seems to have found a way to kill some downtime.They snapped a bunch of photos of a ton of burger joints in East LA and now its up to us to tell them where to eat. Hence, their 1st annual East LA burger tour. Check it out and let them know where you want them to go.Two Can't Decide - East LA Burger Tour
Art: Marshmallow Burger 2007-10-14 23:51:00 We got this Marshmallow
burger from AbleBody. It was used as a prop in the movie Blood Car (preview below). Apparently it won at the Bend Film Festival. I dunno. Read more:Burger
A & L 2007-10-13 19:26:00 Portland Hamburglers RidgedPickle and AmericanCheese were sitting around watching college football all day, apparently got intimidated by the size of the players on the large screen, so they decided to bulk up with some burgers.RidgedPickle went with a burger called "The Vast". It had bacon and ham (serious business), cheese, and there was some discussion whether or not there was an egg on it. AmericanCheese apparently just sat there and marveled at the speed and efficiency that RidgedPickle displayed putting this thing away.AmericanCheese went with a straight up cheeseburger and onion rings. The bun had just the right amount of grease.There was something called a "Slider" on the menu but it was a sandwich. Ah Shucks!A & L5933 NE Glisan St.Portland, OR 97213(503)234-7607
Produce Row 2007-10-12 17:05:00 Pickles & Ammo and Hamburgler conduct important burger business while on lunch. Pickles & Ammo went with the first burger up there. "The Roundtripper" is a 1/2 pounder of Painted Hills Natural Beef on a Ciabatta bun. He had "deluxe" which adds grilled onions, mushrooms, and bacon or canadian bacon (our Northern pork featured in the picture). Opted to go with the chips at $8.50. He had a hard time holding onto this thing and theorized that it had:..just a little too much lube..Hamburgler had a "Produce Row Burger" with the "deluxe" option as well. Pretty straight up burgering here, but served on a hoagie roll. Took it down for $7.75 with fries.Produce Row204 SE Oak St.Portland, OR 97214(503)232-8355
Burger Skills: Rims 2007-10-12 13:28:00 Whataburger! has a taste for the Tigard Police's D.A.R.E. mini-truck. I think we will sling McDonalds this Friday.Photo from Whateves via Supersized Meals Read more:Burger
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Burger Tour: Pure Country Gold PART 1 2007-10-11 17:28:00 Pure Country
Gold are having a good year (and apparently still training for the upcoming Olympics). Willamette Week declared them one of the top 10 best new bands in Portland. They released a couple records, one on Empty and another 7" on Shake Appeal. And, just finished up their second tour this year that got kicked off opening for Roky Erickson at the Music Fest NW.You can go see for yourself at Berbati's Pan on Friday October 12th, 2007.They like to eat burgers too. Here follows a diary of the their brown nutritional requirments on the road in 2 parts.Here's a report of our burger experiences from the Pure Country Gold "Great Divide" Tour '07.For our first meal of the tour we stopped at a McDonald's inside a gas station in Ritzville, WA. It was a friday evening and the place was hopping with folks and we realized Ritzville is not as elegant a place as its name implies. We both ordered two $1 double cheeseburgers and a $1 order of fries from the value menu.I’d been heari Read more:Burger
Burger Tour: Pure Country Gold PART 2 2007-10-11 17:22:00 PART 2By the time we arrived in Missoula we were getting hungry again. We headed straight to the house-party where we were to be playing and where we were told there would be food waiting for us. We arrived to a fantastic and enormous food spread – there weren’t any burgers, but there were some great sausages being pulled off the grill right when we got there.The sausages were homemade and made out of elk or antelope or some other Montana game animal - can’t remember. They were plenty of grilled onions and peppers, relish, kraut and a variety of mustards to top ‘em. Damn tasty!The next day, midway through our long haul to Salt Lake City, we stopped in Idaho Falls in search of a place to relax and grab lunch. We decided on a bar called the Sports Castle so we could watch a little football while we ate. It was a pretty non-descript generic sports bar that smelled of bleach and grease. There was a couch and a couple of lounge chairs situated in front of the widescreen which were o Read more:Burger
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News: All burgers, all the time! 2007-10-11 01:07:00 Bollywood Insight lets us know about the tough time Kunal Kapoor is having while filming a burger scene....There was one scene in which I am supposed to eat a hamburger and there is some mayonnaise that needs to fall on my jacket and I don’t think I have eaten so many burgers in my life put together because I had like some 16 Burgers and 3 bottles of mayonnaise...If computer toys are your thing then soon you can get your hands on a hamburger USB drive.Hamburgers can provide some tempting young lads with a topic for bad pickup lines:7. Yo Baby, you be my Dairy Queen, I'll be your Burger King, you treat me right, and I'll do it your way right away. 9. If your were a new hamburger at McDonald's, you would be McGorgeousCarl's Jr. is ramping up production on their new signature Britney Spears burger. And of course no bicycle is complete without a bell in our favorite form factorPicture by Dystopos with CC license.
The Blaze Flame Broiled Burgers 2007-10-11 00:15:00 It cost a couple bucks to enter their massive dining area, but they have multiple locations always within walking distance and a couple really large tv's to keep you entertained.Pickles & Ammo and Hamburgler had to see what that burger is all about. To say that it is "flame broiled" is an understatment. This hockey puck comes in at $5.50, or $7.50 for about 15 french fries. The extra charred flavoring alarmed Pickles & Ammo and he had this reflection while loitering on the smoking mezzanine: Its pretty smokey out here, but I think my cancer is going to come from those charred carcinogens I'm digestingDo you think there is a construction guide in the back to make this thing? At least the cheese is cold so you know it has been stored properly (ok.....we all know what the out come would be, lets leave it be already).Well at least they have beer to wash it down. It's $8.00. Tip them a dollar and watch what happens though.The Blaze
1 Center CourtPortland, OR 97227(503)235-8771 Read more:Burgers
Michael's Italian Beef and Sausage Co. 2007-10-08 19:01:00 Portland Hamburgler Pickles & Ammo usually goes with the "Chicago Style Combo" (thats Chicago style Italian
Beef and Italian Sausage
with peppers and onions), but had to see what the "Burger Italiano" was all about.The "Burger Italiano" is more of a sub-sandwich then a burger, but the staples are there. Baked meatballs (without tomato sauce), mayo, lettuce, pickle, tomato, and optional peppers & onions. A whole one is $7.20, or half for 3.80.As Pickles & Ammo put it: TastyMichael
's1111 SE Sandy Portland, OR 97214(503)230-1899
Beulahland UPDATE 2007-10-08 17:45:00 UPDATED: 10/8/2007Special Sauce, Snacks and Pic Wic have a return visit to Beulahland to get a handle on their vegiburger action.We went to Beulahland for their Wednesday cheap burger night. From 6pm until the kitchen closes veggie burgers are $4 and meat are $3. Special Sauce and Snacks went for the homemade veggie burgers(not vegan) one with cheese for and extra $0.50 and one without. This is one of our favorite veggie burgers in town though it can be a bit crumbly at times. Snacks was disturbed by the brown mustard in the yellow mustard squeeze bottle. "It's like finding special sauce in the ketchup bottle". He was also saddened by the lack of weapon with this burger. Pic Wic went for the Bacon Cheese burger. All burgers come with chips and not only a bonus side pickle but pickles on the burger too. And yes we were playing cribbage while snacking.PREVIOUS POST: 9/5/2007The "Hamburginator" chimes in after a recent stop at Beulahland with this tasty burger. I've experienced this on
Burger Skills: Homemade Burger Budgeting 2007-10-08 13:52:00 Karen Datko over at The Simple Dollar takes the McDonalds $1 cheeseburger on a burger battle with homemade burgers. Yep, she forgot a bunch of other factors (gas/storage/condiments/cooking), but still could probably win. Now, take on the double!Anyway, there’s roughly three ounces of meat on the burger, plus cheese, ketchup and a bun, meaning you can make 16 burgers of equivalent size from three pounds of hamburger meat.Using the Global Grocery List and other online sources, I obtained some prices for the materials you would need to construct 16 such cheeseburgers.- 3 pounds hamburger @ $1.99 lb. = $5.97- 16 slices cheese, store brand = $1.99- 16 hamburger buns, actually 2 packs of 8 = $3.98- 1 small bottle ketchup = $1.50… for a total of $13.44. One doesn’t have to pay sales tax on these products as they’re staple foods. Sixteen McDonald's double cheeseburgers, on the other hand, cost $17.12.If you want to do this in bulk, just grill all of the burgers, then freeze them, se Read more:Burger
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Pala Lounge 2007-10-06 23:17:00 The BurgerBaron (not pictured) and friend go to Pala for burgers that aren't quite big enough for someone of his title.They have a 1/2 pound Kobe Beef Burger there for $10.00? As far as I can tell this is a club (unaware there was still places with house music...hey, what do we know?) in the "Old Town date rape district".These are two micro burgers from PALA on the happy hour menu for only $3, I think you are supposed to buy a drink too. I think it's well worth the money although I could probably eat about 6 of these things. Yummy burgers leaving me wanting more. I think they serve them until 10:45 or was it 9:45?You can check out the BurgerBaron's other exploits at Millions of Hundred Dollar Ideas.Pala Lounge105 NW 3rd Ave.Portland, OR 97209
Burger Tour: ERS-ONE / Magneto (Mexico) 2007-10-19 00:27:00 The Burger
Blogger wrapped up the last part of his tour in Mexico
and did find some Hamburguesa action while there.Here's a couple photos from my last tour in Mexico. I went to Mexico CIty, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosi, all in 4 days. Needless to say taking time to enjoy a Hamburguesa was out the question.For the most part they are push carts or hitch trailers on the streets. There is a chain of hamburguesas that sets up a small shack that locks up. They set up in parques and not super busy intersections. (if i lived there i'd ask for one outside my door)The one time i did have time to order a hamburguesa the place was out. But, it was at a place called Arachera House, and the hamburguesa had the choice of Pineapple and or chorizo on top of the queso and hamburguesa.Since we could only eat in a hurry and at odd hours we ended up eating alot of the local drunk eateries at like 4am. I choose to have the local specialties. Above are Enchiladas Mineras, a specialty to Guanajuato Me
Canned Burgers 2007-10-19 00:26:00 Wired has a great photo collection of odd canned foods. Think they missed an important one though.Cutetwirler's had a go at this canned burger found in a Farm Foods shop in Liverpool UK. Read more:Canned
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Walgreens 2007-10-19 00:25:00 Originally just went to try and find the mythical food product "Lyle Lovett's Chicken Nuggets". No luck, but, they do have a burger selection and some sides by the great Dwight Yoakam for only a buck (saw a posting about these recently somewhere).No burgers consumed, but they are available. It is pretty hard to microwave a hamburger with the bun. Who am I to complain though. I buy my clothes at Walgreens
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Velour 2007-10-17 13:00:00 CondimentSpreader has got the fever. Burger fever that is, and thinks he has found a contender. Got to be curious about that Habanero-Blackberry Ketchup.If you find yourself near old town after bar close, I IMPLORE you to head to Velour on First and Ash. They're open til four, allow smoking in their very plush, comfortable balcony, and besides the Slow Bar, have one of the best burgers I've tasted. It is a buffalo patty, but I don't think I could tell in this case, and it comes with the best fries anywhere. I know it seems like an exaggeration, but no...However they grill the buns, they are served with the slightest bit of crunch with no signs of burning. Really,.. great texture as much as anything with this one. And apparently the fries get rolled in rice flour before the oil, adding extra crunch, and are served with a habanero and blackberry ketchup. Pretty interesting stuff. My only criticism, in my opinion, was that they went a little heavy with the black pepper in the p
Kenny & Zuke's 2007-10-24 16:11:00 From the size of the lunch crowd this place was serving up more hot beef then the fella's cruising by.SpecialSauce called in a "snack break" and made the trip to Kenny
& Zuke's with the Hamburgler.What you see there is a Pastrami Burger (its hiding under the cheese) with Swiss touching down at $11.75. Its was great. Bloody. And, had SpecialSauce giggling something about chocolate in her peanut butter.They also have a regular burger for $8.50 with fries, cole slaw, or potato salad. Add cheddar, swiss, avocado, sauteed mushrooms, or carmelized onions for $1.00 a pop.That sandwich was a whopper. A "Deli Club" with pastrami, turkey, swiss, tomato, and a price tag of $12.25.Bonus Pickle!Kenny & Zuke's1038 SW Stark St.Portland, OR 97205(503)222-DELI
Screendoor 2007-10-23 13:11:00 The Screendoor on East Burnside offers up some versions of Southern BBQ, fried chicken, po-boys, and such. Hamburgler and Pickles & Ammo were there burgering though.The "Backyard Burger" is 8 oz. of free range sirloin and starts at $9.75 with cheedar and fries. Add extras for $1.00 each.Pickles & Ammo just decided to go with all the extras: bacon, fried egg, and crispy fried onions. He ordered it bloody, and was excited to see it come that way. He personally thinks that he can rate how good a burger is by:Juices that don't run clear. That pool of clear juices spotted with red blotches on the plate is his own personal Rorschach Inkblot test. Hamburgler went straight up bacon cheese burger in the third pic. If this site had a recommend list it would be on it.Screendoor2337 E BurnsidePortland, OR 97214(503)542-0880
Cascade Locks Charburger 2007-10-21 23:59:00 Whataburger! ( aka Lelo in Nopo ) takes a trip up the river for some sizzling burger action. She is going to get a pass as she learns the fine art of burgering photo skills as well.I hope that the delectable charred taste of my charburger today, from Charburger in Cascade Locks, was the real deal and not out of a bottle. You know the taste I'm talkin' bout. Char.We popped into Charburger today because the other half has never been. And as a native Oregonian, she really should be ashamed of herself for that. Charburger offers up all kinds of options for your burgers. I opted for the special, $7.95, topped with pepper jack cheese and turkey bacon. The other half went for the cheddar burger. I should have gotten the cheddar burger cuz I couldn't bite through the bacon and the cheese had been cooked to the point of oil/cheese separation. But, the view is to die for at Charburger, and the setting is outta this world. A cafeteria style of place...in the middle of the spacious dining room
Holmans 2007-10-21 15:17:00 Keep two things in mind. I'm sure this thing was eaten at 3am and PattyMelt likes Van Hagar over Diamond Dave. Still she has this to say:...it was f**kin' excellent and thankfully there was no 1000 Island dressing."UPDATE: 10/23/2007PattyMelt likes to set records straight!I, as any eater that has respect for the truth, am compelled to demand a correction and clear my good name. I prefer Diamond Dave over Van Hagar any day of the week! Put that on your bun and eat it!Holmans15 SE 28th Ave.Portland, OR 97214(503)231-1093
Links: Ideas In Food 2007-10-21 15:03:00 Idea's In Food has some fantastic food experiments going on. Some even include burger. Above is the Long Burger that betrays our sense of culture....thats a hot dog bun there buddy!Outside of burgering they have some interesting ideas that should get you away from watching the bad tippers on the Food Network. This is nuts (not literally). Hot Cauliflower Ice Cream with Wet Olives, Pickled Chafa Nuts, Epazote & Mustard Chips.Cock's Combs LardonsPork Belly Tater Tots
Contests: Krystal Square Off IV: World Hamburger Eating Championship 2007-10-29 14:12:00 There is a new king and town and its not Takeru Kobayashi! Putting down 103 Krystal
hamburgers in 8 minutes, Joey Chestnut took it down.For actual "coverage" of this event check out the Krystal Square
Off site.Did you know that there are Fantasy Sports Eating Leagues?......Wait.....What? Yep, here it is: Fantasy Eating. Read more:Contests
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North 45 2007-10-28 21:09:00 More fresh burglers. WhopperChomper and ToastedBun enlighten us to enjoying Belgium beer with our favorite American pop culture icon.I started Friday night with a hankerin for a burger, which brought me & ToastedBun to North
45. The menu is dominated by a wide variety of mussels and above average takes on traditional pub grub. Priced at $8, their one & only burger on the menu is a straight ahead solid effort served the correct way, with bacon & cheese (pepper bacon & aged cheddar) and a ciabatta roll. As a travel pub, North 45 also makes serious business of pommes frites (that's fancy talk for french fries), and those come with the burger as well. The menu recommends an IPA with the burger, so I felt it a journalistic imperative to order one. The result is an entirely satisfying & nearly pornographic burger experience that outclasses close neighbor Blue Moon by a long shot. Note - they've got an extensive collection of belgian trappist ales and even though they are fairly pricey at
La Sirenita UPDATED 2007-10-26 16:04:00 UPDATE: 10/26/2007There is this company called "Schmap" that trolls Flickr for photos to use in their city guides. Well, long story short. They ended up using our hamburguesa picture for the review of La Sirenita. Sorry La Sirenita, you are now a burger shack!Check it out: Schmap-------- Continued tour of Portland Mexican restaurant hamburgers.I have to go back again. They ran out of buns for their flagship burger, so I went with just a cheeseburger. Fair priced thin patty (no wonder the counter fellow kept asking me if I wanted a double) with american cheese and the standard condiments. Does the trick at the dirt cheap price, plus the fries are steak fries.La Sirenita2817 Ne Alberta StPortland, OR 97211
O'Connor's 2007-10-26 14:45:00 Pickles & Ammo and the new kid, BleuCrumbles stuff face at O'Connor
's.That top one there was formerly known by Pickles & Ammo as a cajan burger. When the restaurant found out that it has disappeared and he was the only one around they accused him of eating it and charged him $7.50. But, they did offer up soup, salad, fries, or hushpuppies. Bleu Crumbles had the avocado swiss burger:It was pretty tasty. The Hush-Puppies came with a sweet, yet spicy salsa, that can be best described as top shelf.O'Connor's7850 SW Capitol Hwy.Portland, OR 97219(503)244-1690
Zell's 2007-11-02 14:15:00 The Hamburgler follows the groundbeef highway and exits at Zell's with two innocent bystandards.That burger you see there is a 7 ouncer, comes "California Style" with sauteed potatoes for $6.25. Add cheddar, gruyere, or gorganzola for $1.00, bacon $1.25, mushrooms $1.00.That "other food" you see there went down the hatch with Champaign and a beer (breakfast of champions). Cordon Bleu sandwich had grilled chicken, smoked ham, and gruyere for $7.25. Hamburgler went with the "Brunch Omelette" that included ham, sharp cheddar, scallions, and potatoes for $7.75.Bonus Pickle!Zell's1300 SE Morrison St.Portland, OR 97214(503)239-0196
Art: Hamburger Cakes 2007-11-01 22:00:00 ExtraCheese had a birthday last night and ended up with our favorite cake from Fred Meyer's. Airbrushed white cake with a layer of chocolate cake in the center. Read more:Hamburger
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Hamburger Casting Call: Become a Portland Hamburger 2007-11-01 18:08:00 You....Yes you! Can participate and become a Portland Hamburger
. It's really easy and fun. Everyone is welcome.Just do the following:1 - Snap a picture of that burger (even if it has already been posted about...what do you have to say about it?)2 - Note the price and toppings. Write nothing, a little, or a lot. Its up to you.3 - Come up with a burger related alias (see the list in the right margin).4 - Send it in.5 - Let your friends know when the post goes up.It's that easy!We will even include a link to you/your project/band/show/whatever, or you can stay anonymous.Vegans/Vegetarians we would love to hear from more of you. Sadly we only have a couple vegiburgers posted, but would love to have lots more.Bonus points for getting a snap shot of the front of the establishment. Please note that cell phone camera's usually don't take very good photos. Not that we know anything about photography, but there is a cut off point. Some folks have expressed a bit of confusion on wha Read more:Casting
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Tryon Creek Sports Pub 2007-11-01 17:26:00 Pickles & Ammo was lollygagging over on the west side and found himself the "Burly Burger", served up by the Tryon Creek Pub.Came with Canuck bacon, fried egg, and cheese. How does he keep that figure?Tryon Creek Sports
Bar8610 SW TerwilligerPortland, OR 97219(503)246-6644
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