This announcement is part of our 2013 Burger Week (Aug 5-11), where we team with local restaurants and vendors to bring you $5 gourmet hamburgers!
White Owl Social Club, the rock and roll restaurant, bar, venue, and million-acre-outdoor-patio brainchild of the unstoppable guys behind Sizzle Pie, completely owned Burger Week’s vegan angle. With a full menu that’s at least half vegan and gluten-free, their meatless items are flavor-tested by omnivorous cooks to ensure they’re not missing any savory umami. Their brilliant vegan burger, built with beets, crushed Oregon hazelnuts, seaweed, quinoa, and flax, looks like an actual burger, and has the varied texture and rewarding richness such patties usually lack. In order to completely nail the concept to the floor, they top this $5 masterpiece with creamy buttery Daiya jalapeno havarti, “misonnaise,” the legendary New Mexican roasted Hatch chilies, onion rings, and chimichurri sauce. The team at White Owl is serious about meeting all of Portland’s dietary needs, and goes to great lengths to make sure their alternative fare gets the royal treatment in both development and execution. If you live vegan, this burger is a must-try, and it will only be $5 August 5th-11th.
White Owl Social Club
1305 SE 8th Ave
Mon-Sun 3 pm – 2:30 am
Portland Mercury Burger Week on Facebook
Even if you’re not vegan, White Ow’s beet burger is one of those vegan dishes that is totally worth trying on its own merits.*
Others that immediately come to mind are the smoked tomato/sweet corn pizza at Dove Vivi, half the things at the DC Veg cart, and all of the things at Dovetail Bakery (the closure of which I’m still bitching about).
* I never expected to find myself typing that sentence either.
I’ve really come to love the vegan pizza slices coming out of the Hot Lips on Hawthorne (the vegan slices at Hot Lips PSU are awful). I’ve come to believe that only people who aren’t vegan actually appreciate good vegan food. Because vegans don’t get a choice.
I go to Sonny Bowl like 4 times a week for a lunch. It’s delishussss.
Delicious vegan food, like this burger, is one reason why the number of vegans has doubled in less than 3 years. Here are two uplifting videos that will help people understand just some of the implications of this lifestyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr4HZ7ukSE and http://www.veganvideo.org
I’m so excited to see a vegetarian burger for this event! I can’t wait to try this.