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Two Cool Portland Things: 'Portland Hamburgers' Blog and Roadside Burger Family

Posted by Adam Kuban, March 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM

I'm going to kill two birds with one stone with this post. First bird: I've been meaning to give a shout-out to the awesome blog Portland Hamburgers for a while now and don't know what's stopped me. It's a cool addition (though it's now been around since August 2007) to the burger-blogging scene. Sorry for sleepin' on the shout-out, PDX Burgers!

Photograph from Vintage Roadside

Second: Check out this cool photo that Portland Hamburgers dug up of a "family" of burger mascot people that happens to be sitting in the back yard of the folks who run Vintage Roadside—a Portland business that sells the ephemera of bygone roadside America. What an amazing collection to have! Could you imagine the total and ultimate cred this array would lend you while hosting grill-outs? Here's a link to a full set of "family" photos.

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AOL Cityguide: The Nation's 15 Best Burgers

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 ...

1. All-American Drive-In, Massapequa, New York
2. Chris Madrid's, San Antonio
3. CityGrille, Denver
4. Dick's Drive-In, Seattle
5. Goldyburgers, Chicago
6. In-N-Out Burgers, Los Angeles [AHT's 2¢]
7. Jack's Old Fashion Hamburger, Oakland Park, Florida
8. O'Connell's Pub, Saint Louis
9. Peter Luger, New York [AHT's 2¢]
10. Roaring Fork, Phoenix
11. Stanich's, Portland, Oregon
12. Tessaro's, Pittsburgh
13. Thurman Cafe, Columbus, Ohio
14. Val's Burgers, San Francisco
15. 96th Street Steakburgers, Indianapolis

15 Burgers to Try Before You Die [AOL Cityguide]
The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die [GQ]

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