News: Mark Lindsay's Rock N' Roll Cafe / Yaw's UPDATED

Looks like Mark Lindsay's Rock N' Roll Cafe has a bit of a problem marketing their burgers as "Yaw's" burgers.

The Oregonian had this report:

Stephen Yaw and his daughter, Heidi Galusha, filed a federal lawsuit today accusing the new restaurant owners of capitalizing on the family name without permission.

We will be going to this establishment soon, and at the same time going across the street to the Hollywood Burger Bar for a little burger-battle action.

UPDATE:

The Portland Tribune gives this a little attention as well:

...and “building procedures” — which, as he explains, is “the order in which each ingredient is added” to make a true Yaw’s Top Notch Burger...

Hmmm...luttuce on the top or bottom? Tough one, but then again you are reading news about hamburgers.

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Oaks Amusement Park

No he didn't........well, Portland Hamburgler "Pickles & Ammo" did, and it's not pretty.

Still no answer if this was seen again after riding the "Disk'O", or "The Rockin' Tub".

They have burgers there at the Oaks Park. And, I guess now it has been documented.

Oaks Park
7805 SE Oaks Park Way
Portland, OR 97202

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Le Pigeon

Portland Hamburglers "Burgermeister" and "Hamburgler" enter the madness that seems to be the name-drop of the Portland "foodies" scene. We are not here for that though, we are here for the burgering.

Seems like a lot of the great burgers in town share something in common with the Le Pigeon burger: Strawberry Mountain Natural Beef. The Slow Bar and Wildwood use it, maybe more should as well.

Burger is excellent. It's nice that it is only $9.00 with potatos ($11.00 with a salad) and makes you think about how much of a jump in quality from your run-of-the-mill diner burger that is the same price with a tip. It's $0.05 more then many places around town that specialize in burger, but 10 times more delicious. [ Trying really hard not to write a "review", but it was really good. ]

That dessert you see there is nuts. It's hot sizzling bacon on ice cream and cornbread with syrup.

No pickle, but they get one anyways.

Honorary Bonus Pickle!

Le Pigeon
738 E. Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97214
(503)546-8796

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Boomer's

So, it's in a strip-mall, but this was a lot better then expected. They actually managed to pull off having a full BBQ set-up (something I think would be hard to do in a strip mall...go figure).

"Portland Hamburgler "The Human Cy-burger" had the BLTG (pepper bacon, gaucamole, lettuce, tomato, caramelized onions, and chilpolte mayo) for $8.95 with fries.

"Hamburgler" went with the sliders plate. Now this isn't burger sliders....uh oh...but three of those "other meats": pulled pork, chicken, and a beef brisket. Taps out at $6.95

I'm actually wanting to check out the "breakfast sliders". Same as the sliders, but with scrambled eggs. So close to finding a breakfast burger you can taste it.

What's nuts is that they open at 7am. Whoh! BBQ at 7am is pushing the envelope.

Boomer's Burgers & Ribs
1335 N. Hayden Island Dr.
Portland, OR 97217
(503)517-2041

(Its the Jantzen Beach I-5 exit)

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Amnesia Brewing

This place was a crowd favorite. Portland Hamburglers "HoldEverything", "SpecialSauce", "Hamburgler", and "Bun-dita" (your favorite pet food shop proprieter of Meat for Cats & Dogs) travel North to sample these brown biscuits.

Large natural ground beef, grilled out on the patio for viewing pleasure with the usual suspects and chips. It was nice to have a condiments bar as well. There was some talk of something called a "Hamwallet". Have to figure it out next time.

Beer Advocate seems to like the beer there as well.

Bonus Pickle!

Amnesia Brewing
832 N. Beech St.
Portland, OR 97227
(503)281-7708

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Johnny B's

Established Portland diner that is more of a breakfast joint, but they have burgers on the menu so Portland Hamburglers "Pickles & Ammo" and "Hamburgler" were there.

A theory about covering the chair legs with tennis balls provides optimum comfort while sitting (just don't move the tables). Don't get us wrong. They are some of the nicest folks in town, and it's nice to see blue-collar hold outs in this soon to be re-developed area (please...oh please don't call it the "Diamond District").

"Pickles & Ammo" had this to say:

It is the nature of a Chili-Burger to be smothered in chili...just a little over-done...but I wouldn't cast it in a disparaging light.

It's a diner, so "fill-er-up" is what this is about and the "Johnny B's Hunger Cheese San" (not pictured) at $10.95 would put you in that one-meal-a-day diet. 1/2 pounder, on grilled sourdough, fried egg, grilled ham, bacon, and the usual suspects.

Cheeseburger (pictured with American Swiss) starts at $6.50.

Johnny B's
1212 SE Hawthorne
Portland, OR 97214
(503)233-1848

M-F: 6am-2pm
SAT: 7am-2pm

Breakfast all day (at least to 2pm)
Cash Only

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Burger Art: Andy Warhol

I dunno. It's Andy Warhol eating a hamburger. You can imagine some folks sitting around on the floor watching this quietly, then exclaiming how "genius" it is. Ugh!

I know. I know. A lack of an "art" education (Rap Snacks tell us to "Stay In Skool") doesn't let some folks see some kind of statement being made about pop culture because he is eating at Burger King. Sorry.

That Ray Johnson story in How to Draw a Bunny about his friend shooting a stack of the Marylin Monroe prints in the head is pretty good though.

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Javier's

Continuing tour of Mexican restuarant Hamburguesa's.

I don't know how much longer or how many more Hamburguesa's there are out there in Portland. Lets hope not many. "Burgermeister" tackled this thing an hour after it had been sitting about. Hope she is ok.

Javier's Taco Shop
121 N. Lombard
Portland, OR
(503)286-3186

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Plan B ( formerly ACME )

Portland Hamburglers "RarePattie", "Plain N' Dry", and "Hamburgler" continue the quest for sliders at Plan B (formerly ACME).

These sliders are infused with an IPA beer and come with a couple of toppings choices with the usual suspects (aka "California Style"). It's $6.00 for two with fries or salad.

That last mess is actually something called a "Shrooben". It's a veggie reuben w/grilled mushrooms and onions (fries or salad), $7.00.

They also have vegan options.

Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave.
Portland, OR 97214

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Burger Tour: The Battle of Land & Sea (England)

What is it with England and large pile burgers? Sarah from the Portland band The Battle of Land & Sea sends us this report:

Here's a burger I had last week in Bristol England. It had a fried egg, beets, lettuce, tomato, meat patty, pineapple and special sauce on it...you got a free beer with it too.

Beets? Come again. I dunno, but I'm sure it was delicious.

The Battle of Land & Sea play at Holocene this Sunday (September 23rd) with Sleeping States, Pink Nasty, and Kele Goodwin.

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International: Netherlands

Portland Hamburgler Khris Soden aka "I can't think of a good hamburger alias" (get it together already!) keeps showing us why Americans basically run the burger world.

Are we missing out on some secret, and stuck in European tourist burgerland? What gives? As a representative of Mostlandia I would think of better accommodations, but no. Check out Mostlandia's thing at PICA last year.

Anyhow. The diplomat has this report:

This "hamburger"came from a snack shop called "Lucky Hills". Snack shops are one step up from automats, but are still lower than eetcafes, which are of less quality than restaurants. This is a broodje hamburger kaas - a long way of saying cheeseburger.

Anyway, I couldn't really get a shot of the pattie itself, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The stuff on top of the burger is chopped onions (you get these unless you ask not to have them - I like onions, so that works out), and a more than generous squirt of mayonnaise, and another big squirt of barbecue sauce. I'm not sure what the Dutch call it, but it's barbecue sauce. This is in place of ketchup and mustard, which you will not receive, or even find as an option. Surprisingly, the bun of this burger was really tasty. The rest of it tasted how it looks, although I have to admit that the burger portion looked and tasted more like a burger than the one from the automat. I've included a picture of my alter ego, the Diplomat Monsieur Einrich Elkhart, tasting the burger. I think that his expression might say it all.

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International: Hong Kong/Japan - Rice Burgers

I don't think any Portland Hamburgler would be caught eating at McDonalds, but what about McDonalds in Japan Hong Kong? A whole new palette of flavor crystals modified for your tasting pleasure sounds kind of interesting. Then someone in a boardmeeting earns their promotion by spurting out.....wait.....I got it....how about buns made of rice.




Then we have MOS Burger. Can't read Japanese, thats ok, me either. A Hamburger Today has some info for us in English.

These look a bit more appealing. That top one is vegetarian with seasoned bamboo shoots, carrots, and nori. That one on the bottom is Unagi. Yum!





Photos by: Wintersweet, Inju, and Allen Reyes with CC license.

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Burger Tour: ERS-ONE / Magneto (San Francisco)

Portland Hamburgler the "BurgerBlogger" is still on the road touring and updates us about his burger action in San Francisco.

Check out his mid-west action and info here.

So last weekend I DJ'd at Club Icon in SF with Dj Audio1 (and went to Treasure Island Festival) we drove from Santa Barbara it was a 4.5 hour drive for me.

The best burger i had all weekend was at Flippers in Hayes valley.

This is the "Clipper Flipper" three-cheeseburger, nice. Good tasty burger. Worked well with all the cheesiness. I think it was like $10.00.



Second best burger was in Paso Robles at Good ol' Burgers. You can see the Cocineros cook up the tasteyness. I had the "Coyote Burger" with secret sauce and avocado + seasoned fries $10.00. My friend Manabu had that massiveness. The same as the "Coyote Burger", TRICE the meat.





Lori's Diner San Francisco Union Square. Blues Burger made better with a generous portion of Blue Cheese. GOOD
I think I remember it being good. i was a bit faded.


The fourth best was at Grubstake. They had world clocks, NY, Portugal, Tokyo and PORTLAND! "Grubstake Nugget": a cheeseburger with bacon and fried egg featured here. They had nuff condiments.

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Roake's

"Hamburgler" and "Burgermeister" (which we believe means "Mayor" in German) go to this easily missed burger joint (unless you are getting something powder-coated up on Columbia).

"Burgermeister" had a bacon cheese-burger (american cheese). She noted:

Its like eating late at night at an A&W in the midwest.

Sure.....except this was a 11:00 am breakfast burger.

"Hamburgler" went with the sliders at $1.50 a pop, and some fries. Those fries were greasy delicious! I'm not sure at which point a slider turns into a small burger? These seemed about the size of a McDonalds burger.

Roake's
1760 NE Lombard Pl.
Portland, OR 97211
(503)289-3557

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Links: Bob's Big Boy

Founder Bob Wian’s inspiration for the Big Boy icon came from Richard Woodruff. “Woodruff was a rotund young boy who had a curious pompadour hairstyle and would help Wian out with chores in exchange for free food,” recalled an article in Nation’s Restaurant News. “The plump Woodruff, nicknamed ‘Fat Boy’ by the hourly gentry at Bob’s, often showed up for work in a pair of baggy jeans giving the little endomorph an almost cartoonish appearance. By chance a Hollywood artist and a regular at the restaurant happened to sketch the boy on a napkin. Since that afternoon the image of the chubby lad in checkered coveralls with a hamburger in one hand has become one of the most highly recognized and lasting trademarks in the foodservice industry.”

Woodruff, who grew to be a massive 6-foot-6, 300-pound local legend in Glendale, California, passed away in 1986. He was 54.

More info at Mental Floss(via Boing Boing)

Picture by ArbyReed with CC license.

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International: Tilburg Train Station

Portland Hamburgler Khris Soden aka "I can't think of a good hamburger themed alias" (its getting old) returns from the Netherlands with this gem.

So this was called a hamburger, and it came out of this Automat. I got it in the Tilburg Train Station. It had some sort of special sauce and chopped onions on the top, and beneath the burger were a couple of pickles and a tomato. The thing is, the burger itself was not a hamburger, or at least, not what we in Portland would refer to as a hamburger. It was kind of like some sort of ground meat of unknown origin, then it was boiled, and then deep-fried. I confirmed with my friend Frank who lives here that, yes, this is the process of making these things. He had no idea whether it was beef or not either. It wasn´t the worst thing that I´ve ever eaten, especially since I was really hungry at the time, but it certainly wasn´t a hamburger.

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Burger Art: Mike 2600

Former Portlander Mike 2600 makes some burger art. You might recognize some of his art from the Stones Throw / Adult Swim Chrome Childen tour or from MF Doom's 2004 tour. He claims he is more into Portland pizza then our burgers (he goes with the Burgerville), but his art tells us what is really on his mind. Check out his site for more info:

Twelve Car Pile-Up

So whats this burger all about:

I hand-painted a 20" Dunny for an art show I had at Kidrobot in San Francisco in March 2006. They sent me this huge white vinyl creature that just stared at me day after day. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, and then all of a sudden I got the idea to paint it like a cheeseburger and there was no turning back from that point.

So it went over well at the opening - nuff photos here : - and my friend working at Kidrobot suggested to the powers that be that it should end up as a mass-produced toy in one of the 3" Dunny series. They dug the idea and had me recreate the design on the computer. The burger will be part of Kidrobot's Dunny Series 4 and here's what it looks like as a little guy.

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New Old Lompoc - 5th Quadrant

Portland Hamburgler "I can't think of a good hamburger themed alias" goes to the New Old Lombac 5th Quadrant (thats a mouthful).

A good-sized burger with tillamook cheddar and the usual garnishes (including greasy french fries). My favorite thing about this burger is that the patty came in a very asymetric shape.

New Old Lompoc - 5th Quadrant
3901 B N. Williams Ave.
Portland, OR 97227
(503)288-3996

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