BW 2014

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 […]

Burger Week runs August 11-17th Welcome to the dining room at the Doug Fir Lounge, one of the few restaurants in town where everyone at every table either looks like a breaking band, a published author who just took a shower, or a comforting facsimile thereof. As I sat and enjoyed my “preview burger” one […]

Burger Week runs August 11-17th If you work in the inner east Burnside area, you wear through your lunch and dinner options pretty quickly. Burnside Brewing Co.—who just released their Couch Select Lager in handy canned form, as you can see below—are locally famous for their duck fat-griddled burger, but their big and bright space, […]

Burger Week runs August 11-17th I never thought Smallwares, at NE 46th and Fremont, would get into the Burger Week fray, but once they did I knew Johanna Ware would deliver a killer. I think she’s been holding back for years, because she knew once she put her signature style on a burger, she’d instantly […]

Burger Week runs August 11-17th Back for a second year after a stellar (and hardcore) performance in Burger Week 2013, Slow Bar isn’t content to rest on its laurels. This year the legendary SE Grand burger institution is mixing it up with a Banh Mi Burger — only $5, remember — and it, just like […]

Burger Week runs August 11-17th Club 21, originally a Russian Orthodox Church built in the 1930s, now houses some of the darkest air found in modern bars. It’s the dive that refreshes, and it features one of the few barstools enshrined to Elliott Smith. They’re returning to burger week with another of their classics: The […]

Burger Week runs August 11-17th Double Barrel Tavern has the wooden guts and brass trimmings of a wild old bar, the sort of place The Right Stuff‘s desert flyboys would have tipped neat bourbon from thick-bottomed shots while women with Liberty curls waited semi-indifferently for them to die. It is conveniently located on Division street, […]

Portland Burger Week runs August 11-17th Ate-Oh-Ate‘s burger has always been on my Portland top-five list. Today I learned why: their grind isn’t just straight one-note chuck, it’s ground from the trimmings of all the different beef cuts they produce at their sister location, Laurelhurst Market Restaurant and Butcher Shop. That’s one of the reasons […]