Portland ’s suffer beef . I knew the only city in America to somehow be post - hipster would have delicious new - school options , but what I was n’t require was the degree of natural endowment in the old - school burger spots .
11. Bit House Saloon’s Bit House Burger
Bit House Saloon
On composition , this double - burger with American and griddled onion appeared to have everything I get laid . In practice , however , the burger missed its mark for me , mostly due to two factors:1 ) a doughy , too large bun that took up much of the room , and therefore try out , in each of my bites of the burger.2 ) The summation of Cervus elaphus into the beef commixture . The elk almost dry out the patty , and the flavor , though good , had a bit of a gamy aftertaste . The American and grilled onion mix , on the other helping hand , did create a nice melty tone with the special sauce , but it was n’t enough to push this gamey . Also , Andy made me exhaust popcorn - crust Rocky Mountain oyster , and that was not cool .
10. Clyde Burger
Clyde Common
I went to Clyde by myself at the end of a recollective night and sit at the legal community , where an absolutely glorious bartender name Heather made the perfect Ford cocktail while I waited for my meal . The burger itself was unequalled — featuring a “ fu manchu ” kimchee - esque coleslaw , and a smoked onion aioli that play the parts of the blistering and creamy grain on top of the melted American cheese and marrow . The flavors were right , but a few things go wrong : for one , the in - house baked brioche - style roll flake off the top and got a turn quaggy on the bottom , an issue of not holding it long enough on the grill to varnish the butter and nappy it . And the meat , which taste like it come saucy off a backyard grill , was overcooked to the spot of near charr on the outside . You could evidence that the flavors were there with good carrying out , but I had to play the hand I was dealt , friends .
9. Classic Burger
Mississippi Studios and Bar Bar
Andy , our local man - about - township , live close to Bar Bar , so we walk over from his planetary house to check it out . As we got there , a extend group was eat up its run ( literally people were sprint to the entrance and getting gamy fives ) at the bar , so it was a turn of a crowded deal . And though I have more to say about enjoying nutrient in the company of extremely sweaty people , lease ’s focus on the actual burger itself : tenuous patty , American cheese , a sauce , which , to me , tasted almost like HP browned sauce , plus another Thousand Island clone on the bottom , shredded kale , and some sort of cabbage action , giving it an Asian - ish vibe that actually kind of worked . Like I continue saying , “ This is kind of eldritch , right ? ” but I could n’t check take up chomp . But then came the bun . The roll , friends , is strange . It ’s an Alessio white potato vine bun , and pliable , but has a sort of uncanny flour - esque powder on top , and a near glum savor . It was aboveboard the foreign bun I tasted , and not inevitably in the positive elbow room of the residuum of the burger . Also sour : the sweaty runners EVERYWHERE .
8. The Slowburger
Slow Bar
If you ’re looking for a quick little burger , this is not the blank space to go . tiresome Bar ’s Warren Burger is a full half - pound of Columbia River Reserve beef , as well as Gruyere , lettuce , pickle relish , garlic sauce , and splendidly , a elephantine thick - trim down Allium cepa ring on top . For me , the thick patty was flavourous but a jumbo meaty mouthful , and the even temperature throughout cave in it a short bit of a meatloaf flavor . On top of that , the leash lettuce and Allium cepa ring slid off as you ’d try and bite down , causing most of the toppings to drop out of the back , like a payload plane opening up its embayment room access . On the positive side , the sesame roll was grilled perfectly and , when I did manage to get a insect bite of the total affair , the flavors spiel nicely . It ’s just that that might ’ve occur once .
7. Single Cheeseburger
Helvetia Tavern
Twenty minutes outside of the urban center in wine land , surrounded by grass farm and pumpkin farms and quondam railroad bridge , this place sense just like the complete burger joint to me . And at $ 6 , the griddled cheeseburger is a steal , especially compared to many of the city burgers . The kernel was well - fix and -seasoned , and the whole matter came together nicely , except for the bun . The bun did not play along . First of all , it is n’t grill , it just comes raw , which is one of my bigger problems , as it all but ensures you get a soggy bun . Second , suppose bun started to flake off the top , and that make it seem not as refreshing . It ’s really frustrative because I really guess they ’re onto something if they ’d just take the time to take care of that roll .
6. Pimento Double-Cheeseburger
Trifecta Tavern
Pimento cheese had a bit in the national Lord’s Day a year or two ago , during the National Southern Food Revival , and it ’s one of my favorite almost - alone Southern snack / toppings , so I was excited to see that Trifecta boast it on its Warren E. Burger . Other pretty neat things : it has an next bakery , mean the burger fundament come out of the oven at 4 pm each day , so they ’re nice and novel for dinner party service . The Burger , a blend of brisket and chuck , come as double , with 4 oz to each patty . The core is loosely form and thrown in the wood - give notice grill , then top off with peculiar sauce and pimento cheese , and placed on those fresh buns . It is a splendiferous , salty mess . Like , passing salty . But the Warren Burger sapidity is fantastic off that smoky wood , and the pimento cheeseflower mix in with the garlic sauce into a super - special sauce that should be want at every Southern wedding . The only real issue is that there is nothing to really cut through the salty , creamy , meaty peck and give you that yang to its yin . Otherwise , delicious poppycock .
5. Classic Cheeseburger
TILT
I went to TILT ’s second location in the Pearl District , which was gear up amidst big building being advertize for lease for “ creative space . ” And now that I ’ve set the scene , have ’s peach about the burger . A sight to like here : grilled mild bun is intimately perfect , one of the good ass in Portland , good sapidity on the Thousand Island , functional battery-acid from the ground beef dill pickles , great griddled face on the patty , which is a Wendy’s - manner square move . But , as you could see from the picture , there is a darn - gross ton of lettuce . Like half a foreland . And a whole portion of raw white onion . And frankly , it took me wading through all of that salad in two bites to even really get to the well - flavor , juicy Warren Earl Burger . This , of course , is an well-off fix – just get it without all of that hoopla , and you ’ll have yourself a goddam fine burger .
4. Flat Top Burger
Imperial
Vitaly Paley ’s Downtown position is a howling place to string up for a happy hour , featuring on - stop cocktail and a good after - work vista … even if thing get slimly uncomfortable when the guy cable in tie , loudly discussing all the mass from SF coming up there and break the quality of the metropolis , need me where I came in from . Welp … BACK TO THE BURGER ! The Warren E. Burger , friends , is a delight . The roll is a gentle , pliable , but grilled sesame bun , which hold up despite the fact that the piquant , intermediate - thin patty is aggressively toothsome . The Anethum graveolens mayonnaise blends with the cheese , but is balanced by the battery-acid from the pickles , and the thick red onion are grilled just enough to blunt their dangerous bite . I could easily see myself post up at the prevention , polishing off two of those thing as I buy my friends with the ties a round of drinks for coming in and ruining their city .
3. Get Yo Bread Up
Stoopid Burger
Amidst the heavy gentrification in the Williams / Vancouver corridor brook Stoopid Burger , a uncomplicated nutrient truck offering up zero tricks . It ’s just making extraordinary burgers and shoving them into brown paper dish , then shoving those bags into your hands so you could wander aside and delight in a utterly charred , handwriting - formed patty that merge with Armerican cheddar and a good , spice Thousand Island ( aka Stoopid sauce ) , shredded lettuce ( the only way to do lettuce ! ) , chopped up hole spears , and a soft , lightly grilled bun . The only thing that was brass - racking for me was the bleak red onion , which can ruin a weakly Warren Burger . This is not a weak Warren E. Burger . It ’s a stoopidly strong burger , in fact . I’M good-for-naught , I HAD TO .
2. Double Burger à L’américaine
Little Bird Bistro
Gabriel Rucker made his name with Le Pigeon , one of a fistful of restaurants that put PDX on the culinary function . Little Bird is a more effortless eating place , but still features white tablecloth , so all three of us showed up with patterned Hawaiian shirts on , because we ’re gentlemen . The forked burger on the menu offer up brie cheese , which makes me gasp in torment , but they also do it à L’américaine , with American cheese , and that saves the damn twenty-four hours . The house - made brioche roll is fluffy , light , and moist , the bread & butter pickles combat the piquant tall mallow and meat , and couple well with the spicy ( theater - made ! ) ketchup and Dijon . Also , they ’re impudent , and shred the lettuce while keeping the red onion slash thin , so that it balances out the flavor and does n’t get in the way . A genuinely fantastic , fancy double - doubled , definitely worth seek out .
1. “Nick’s” Cheeseburger with grilled onions
Stanich’s
When I first hop in a cab from the airport to Stanich ’s , and saw thePortlandiasaturation of the domain surrounding it , I beshrew Andy ’s name , thinking he ’d send me to some precious burger joint . But alas , he had not . Stanich ’s is an honest-to-goodness - school sports bar , open in and family - owned since 1949 , and walk in there felt like go back to the character of bar I used to walk into with my granddaddy during the days when he wanted to mouse a beer before dinner party . At this early time of day the only three other people in there were construction proletarian , and the lady behind the counter . honest-to-god - schoolhouse crown lined the walls . I fell in love quickly . But I did n’t expect that the Warren Earl Burger would change me , too . What I had at 11 am on a weekday sitting on a comfortable barstool in NE Portland was one of the best burgers I ’ve ever had in my sprightliness . The sesame bun was griddled utterly , forestall the somewhat messy Warren E. Burger from leak through and get soggy . The ground chuck had a good crisp edge , and the grill onion , which must posture marinate in something , merge with the American cheese for that arrant diner Warren Earl Burger mixture . Normally , we ’d stop there , but Stanich ’s does not yield . On the top bun , they expend a combination of mayonnaise and mustard while on the bottom , it ’s mayonnaise and ruby relish . The end outcome is a mixture of angelic and salty smack I have n’t experienced anywhere else . In fact , I did n’t even see the hamburger dill muddle posture on the side until after I ate the whole damn matter , but it did n’t matter . This beefburger is a home hoarded wealth that I ’d like to keep discovering over and over again .
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