Posted by Robyn Lee, September 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM
AHT reader Curtis R. gave us a heads up about Heart Attack Grill (warning: website automatically plays music) in Chandler, Arizona, the appropriately name three-year old burger restaurant whose motto is, "Taste Worth Dying For." Burgers topped with cheese, onion, and tomato range from the Single Bypass (single patty) to the towering Quadruple Bypass (quad-patty), and sides include Flatliner Fries (fried deep-fried in lard) and unfiltered cigarettes. Young waitresses are dressed in skimpy nurse uniforms (the subject of controversy in 2006) to fully convey the male-targeted hospital theme, not that they could give you any medical attention if you were to actually have a heart attack.
Are their burgers worth dying for? If you've been there, let us know how it is.
Posted by Adam Kuban, April 30, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Yippee ki-ay, burgerlovers! It's time for another burger-link roundup! Enjoy, pardners!
Give me your burgers! Arrrrrgh! 
Remember Total Recall? And how the Governator's character is looking for some Martian mutant resistance leader named Kuato? And how, at the end, it's revealed that Kuato is really some weirdass person-in-a-person?
Well, the former Burger Chef chain is kinda like that. In 1982, Burger Chef was bought out by the corporate parent of Hardee's and most Burger Chefs morphed in to Hardee's. But now, the stunted little Burger Chef that has long been a hidden part of Hardee's corporeal mass is getting its (limited) time in the sun. Hardee's locations in certain Midwestern cities are bringing back Burger Chef's signature burger, the Big Shef. If you live in the Indiana cities of Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, or South Bend or in Dayton, Ohio, you'll be able to eat your way down memory lane.
The Big Shef, served in the '70s and '80s, was a quarter-pound burger with two charbroiled patties, American cheese, shredded lettuce, and special Big Chef sauce. Doesn't seem so special these days, but I suppose it might be like Proust's madelines to Midwest burger lovers of a certain age.
I can has cheezborger? Michael Jordan's Steak House now serving burgers for dogs. Call it a "kitty bag" and I suppose you could take one home for Fluffy, too.
Is original bad-boy chef Marco Pierre White coming to America? If so, will he go downmarket? Grub Street's Josh "Mr. Cutlets" Ozersky grills the onetime mentor to Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Says White: "America doesn’t need any more great chefs. It’s about me taking my knowledge from the three-star world and taking it down to the level of a three-star burger or a three-star steak. I’d want to take a concept you could roll out across the country. One that’s easy for the family.
At Philadelphia's inaugural Scrapplefest, a burger made from the regionally beloved food earned its creator the "Scrapple King" crown. What's scrapple, you ask? Here's your answer.
Do you dig fast-food burgers? Then you're ugly and dumb. But, hey, there's some good news: "A paper published in the May issue of Appetite, a scientific journal, concludes that unhealthy eaters are viewed as 'less physically attractive, less warm, less intelligent, and less studious' than their carrotmunching peers. On the upside, fast-food lovers are perceived as easygoing and more sociable."
An In-N-Out opened in Tucson, Arizona, last week. It's the easternmost outpost of the well-regarded chain yet. Not eastern enough for many folks' taste, however. Note to In-N-Out: Go national! Says ScrippsNews.com: "By noon, more than 100 people were waiting outside and the drive-thru line was at least 100 vehicles deep. The wait to simply place an order took as long as an hour." Pent-up In-N-Out cravings in parts farther east would make the Tucson lines look tame.
The Wendy's chain might be up for sale. Shares rose on the news. Not that fun, but I thought you might like to know.
The New York Times visited Louis' Lunch last week and reveals that the patties are "more than 90 percent lean." Say wha? And those things are still juicy? And raved about? Hmm ...
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 23, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Though we at A Hamburger Today think that In-N-Out is great but often overrated, we think some students at the University of Arizona need to spend some time at burger college. When discussing the possibility of an In-N-Out replacing an on-campus McDonald's whose contract is up, here's what a couple said:
"I think Sonic should be there, or Burger King," said James Roberts, a molecular and cellular biology sophomore. "Any place that serves better fries." ...
"Wendy's is a lot healthier, and you can have a salad instead of fries," said Melissa Revelle, a physics and astronomy junior. "Sonic is also better because it has a better variety and quality."
How can you describe a frozen patty (Sonic) as being of "better quality" than a fresh-not-frozen In-N-Out patty? Ai yah!
Don't hold breath for In-N-Out Burger [Arizona Daily Wildcat]
Posted by Adam Kuban, August 30, 2006 at 1:06 PM
We would have at least recommended Burger King:
Lake Havasu City police are looking for a real-life Hamburglar.
A man broke into a McDonald's early Sunday morning through a roof vent.
Surveillance video shows the man turning on the grill, cooking and eating a couple of burgers before fleeing.
Man breaks into McDonald's to cook, eat burgers [azcentral.com]
Posted by Adam Kuban, May 1, 2006 at 5:00 PM
AOL Cityguide has done it again. In late March, the good folks there brought you the best burgers in New York. Now they've compiled the "15 Burgers to Try Before You Die" (hmm ... strange echo of Alan Richman's piece in GQ last year, "The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die.") Without further ado, they are ...
- All-American Drive-In, Massapequa, New York
- Chris Madrid's, San Antonio
- CityGrille, Denver
- Dick's Drive-In, Seattle
- Goldyburgers, Chicago
- In-N-Out Burgers, Los Angeles [AHT's 2¢]
- Jack's Old Fashion Hamburger, Oakland Park, Florida
- O'Connell's Pub, Saint Louis
- Peter Luger, New York [AHT's 2¢]
- Roaring Fork, Phoenix
- Stanich's, Portland, Oregon
- Tessaro's, Pittsburgh
- Thurman Cafe, Columbus, Ohio
- Val's Burgers, San Francisco
- 96th Street Steakburgers, Indianapolis
15 Burgers to Try Before You Die [AOL Cityguide]
The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die [GQ]
