In 2013, Burger Week’s infant debut was earth-shattering, blinding this little hamlet with shrill screams of delight. Its toddler year was even bigger, with 20 different burgers to trample our fair city with its adorable chubby burger feet and kick Portland right in the jewels. This year, from August 10-16, we have an astounding 34 […]
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Burger Week Profile: Rialto Poolroom Bar and Cafe
Burger Week runs August 11-17th You may only know the Rialto Poolroom Bar and Café as the former: a massive pool hall that’s properly lit in the classic fashion (read: dim, with glowing green felt tables). What’s less obvious from the street is a kitchen program that takes great pride in their product. From the […]
Burger Week Profile: Double Barrel Tavern (updated)
Burger Week runs August 11-17th Double Barrel is a bar in a creative town, and as such they are given to the same fits of creative pique that make this an interesting place to live. They couldn’t leave their prior Burger Week burger well enough alone, and decided to one-up themselves. Late last week I […]
Burger Week Profile: Mi Mero Mole (updated)
Burger Week runs August 11-17th Mi Mero Mole’s Nick Zukin—the gourmet, the gourmand, the gastronome, the legend—put his prodigious culinary imagination on overdrive and came up with what might be Burger Week’s biggest, ballsiest, most out-there fantasy burger yet. This burger would cost about $15 on any normal day, but for you, gentle soul, this […]
Burger Week Profile: Spirit of 77
Burger Week runs August 11-17th Spirit of 77, the cavernous shrine to the Trailblazers, boozing, and the glories of the gluttonous bar food such pastimes require, threw us a curveball by offering one of Burger Week’s two vegetarian burgers (out of a field of 20). This isn’t one of those factory-frozen gluten pucks that used […]
Burger Week Profile: The Hop & Vine
Burger Week runs August 11-17th The Hop & Vine sits on a quiet stretch of North Killingsworth storefronts, its shop windows barely hinting at the spacious and upscale restaurant and bottleshop inside. Because they already say it succinctly, I’ll crib from their website: “Our full bar features eight craft beer taps, an extensive wine list, […]
Burger Week Profile: White Owl Social Club
Burger Week runs August 11-17th White Owl Social Club, the sprawling indoor/outdoor bar, rock club, and carno-veg-vegan-gf-friendly restaurant with a seriously legit menu, is offering one of Burger Week’s two vegetarian burgers. It also happens to be fully vegan, but it packs more interesting, meaty, fresh flavor and complexity than you can possibly comprehend without […]
Burger Week Profile: Widmer Brothers Pub
Burger Week runs August 11-17th We’re stoked that the Widmer Brothers Pub is back for a second year, after performing like a champ during Burger Week 2013. Chef Travis Hansen has once again gone to the drawing board to design a big, juicy, charred marvel with the all-American burger “it” you expect, and the novel […]
Burger Week Profile: The Station
Burger Week runs August 11-17th Northeast Alberta’s The Station makes a high-quality version of a certain iconic fast food burger, which happens to have two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickle, and onion on a sesame-seed bun. This burger used to be named something a little too close for the fast food giant’s comfort, […]
Burger Week Profile: Rockin’ Robyn’s Sassy Burger
Burger Week runs August 11-17th Rockin’ Robyn’s buffalo burger was so popular last year that she’s not messing with it. It’s back, ingredient-for-ingredient an exact version of the one that sold by the hundreds (and hundreds and hundreds) in 2013. What I really like about Robyn is that she’s the only cart that’s brave enough […]
Burger Week Profile: Bar Bar
Burger Week runs August 11-17th Bar Bar, the rock and roll bar and grill in the heart of the Mississippi Studios pleasure-sprawl, is known far and wide for the timeless perfection of its cheeseburger and shoestring fries. We all eat a lot of burgers, but I’ve had literally hundreds in professional service to the Mercury, […]
Burger Week Profile: Foster Burger
Burger Week runs August 11-17th If Foster Burger didn’t do Burger Week, I probably wouldn’t either. That’s how much this place matters to me. It’s because of a lot of things, but I think it comes down to that grate. That iron grilling grate they use—the one that lets the fat from their patties drip […]
