Grab Your Buns, Citizen, National Hamburger Day Is Coming! For all you hungry burger boys and patty ladies out there … – Food
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For all hungry burger boys and patty ladies out there …
By Wayne Alan Brenner, 2:30 p.m., Wed. May 26, 2021
This is Friday, May 28th: National Hamburg Day.
Oh come on, Hopdoddy – stahhhhhhp!
And here you are in Austin, Texas, where – like so many other places in the country – one of the most popular pandemic focuses has been the shift to the easy-to-grab burgers.
[Yeah, that’s still mostly beef-based burgers. Which remains a definite yum. But, lately, with the incredible taste and mouthfeel of those Beyond Burgers and Impossible Burgers, with their plant-based heme and all, who TF needs to be anything other than vegan?]
Really, there are so many culinary ventures out there these days that are energetically geared towards burgers.
The venerable meat merchants Salt & Time recently got into the hot patty action with their Butcher’s Burger concept …
Long-time restaurant Z’Tejas Southwest Grill just announced its (weirdly named) Woo Woo Burgers outpost, which operates from its Sixth Street location and opens in time for Burgerpalooza this Friday …
And Hopdoddy, who continues to cook with those delicious burger-of-the-month collaborations, goes with a double stack comeback burger that’s stacked on top of a big old bun with two Piedmontese burger patties, Alabama comeback sauce, and more, All-in …
[Pro tip: Getting that Hopdoddy monster? Consider washing it down with their Roadie – a half-gallon to-go bag of frozen margarita.]
We could go on with that fuzzy name check – dipping french fries in our chocolate milkshake as we pound the keyboard – but you know what’s even more informative locally when it comes to the burgers? Food editor Jessi Capes compilation of five burger spots in the neighborhood – published last October and still rich in information that is important to the people of this city.
Is that you, right, one of those people?
And where are you going to eat on National Hamburg Day?
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