Archive for October, 2010
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If you’re looking for an old-fashioned burger joint with new-age efficiency and gourmet twists, Hole in the Wall fits the (meal) ticket. Keeping all of their burgers at a reasonable rate, and adding simple innovations (such as a nifty pretzel bun and house-made zucchini pickles), this hole-in-the-wall fulfills their motto as “the working man’s gourmet burger.” Plus, try the house-made sweet potato fries apple-wood smoked bacon to add.
310-312-7013
11058 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Neighborhood: Westwood
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Larkburger
http://larkburger.com/
8000 E Belleview Ave, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (map)
(303) 779-0093
Burgerbytes.com- As for burgers, they offer the 1/3 lb. Larkburger and the Truffle Burger, as well as non-burger “burgers” made of tuna, turkey, or mushrooms. Anytime I see menu items adorned with truffles, I am reminded of some bad Iron Chef America episode where some wanna-be chef shaves a pound of truffles over his dish to make it “exotic”. We went with the Larkburgers cooked medium and and an order of their hand-cut russet potato french fries. I added a slice of Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese (my favorite!), but was a little surprised that bacon wasn’t even an option. Wuuut? Mayo and mustard are non-options as well. All Larkburgers are served with their homemade sauce, which is a blend of mayonnaise, honey mustard and seasonings.
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Burger Bet's wears the same size...NOT!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhh! I feel like LobstersClaw right now. I am stinking up the joint. OK, head on straight BurgerBets, you got this. You are not LobstersClaw. You are not LobstersClaw. You are not LobstersClaw. You have never #2ed yourself! You are not LobstersClaw. You are not LobstersClaw. You are not LobstersClaw. You do not #1 yourself on the reg! Whew, that’s better. OK I am ready to win again. Need to reel off a couple of straight winning weeks to get my followers back in the black. That’s no big deal. As always, HOME team in CAPS.
NCAA Picks:
Arkansas (-5) vs. Texas A&M. HOGSSSSSSS! HOGSSSSSSS! HOGSSSSSSSSS! This game is at Cowboys Stadium (s#^&hole) so it is neutral. Ryan Mallett lit up that dump last year and torched A&M. I like A&M but they just don’t have enough to stave off the relentless Hogs passing attack. I LOVE the Hogs like they’re my own. HOGS!
MICHIGAN (-4.5) vs. Michigan State. I am very excited to watch this game. I think these two squad are very evenly matched. Both are undefeated. But the Spartans don’t have anyone named Shoelaces on their team. And the game is in the Big House. 28-20 Wolverines.
STANFORD (-10) vs. USC. I am still pretty upset that my Cardinal got beat last week. I mean, I think I had already started to spend my winnings at the bar when it was 21-3 Cardinal and then Oregon just exploded. Stanford will not let that happen again and to be honest USC just hasn’t impressed me at all this year. I am starting to think that Lane Kiffin is the coaching version of LobstersClaw. We will see. Go Cardinal.
NFL Picks:
DETROIT (-3) vs St. Louis. I have bet on St. Louis nearly every game this year and they have been cover city at home. But so has Detroit and they really deserve another win or two. It is the most deceiving 0-4 I have seen in a while. I think Lions win this game easily. I love, love, love the Lions. Big games for Megatron and Jahvid Best. Sam Bradford, you’re good, but rookies don’t win on the road in the NFL.
Kansas City (+7.5) @ INDIANAPOLIS. Is anyone else sick of betting on the Colts to cover 6 to 9 point spreads and then never having them do so? BurgerBets is. Screw the Colts. Screw Peyton Manning. I am taking my Chiefs. The Colts cannot stop the run, and the Chiefs are absolutely loaded at RB. Get ready for a megadose of Jamaal Charles, Thomas Jones and my boy Dexter McCluster.
New Orleans (-7) @ ARIZONA. See last week. The Cardinals stink. They’re putrid. Oh, and now they’re starting a rookie QB against a defense that prides itself on intercepting the football. There are two options in this game. Either Ken Whisenhunt keeps the playbook super simple and the Cardinals lose 24-13, or he lets Max Hall loose and the Cardinals lose 38-10. Cover city either way.
As always, bet with me and your burgers are FREE!!!!!
-BURGERBETS
Say Hello to FatAssBurger!
Roadfood.com- Cotham’s Mercantile is perched on stilts above a slow-flowing river. Enter a swinging door into a dining room packed literally to the ceiling with vintage house and farm bric-a-brac. Customers come for hearty noonday meals built around catfish, chicken-fried steak, or chicken-fried chicken. Or try the immense Hubcap Hamburger.
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120 N Leroux St. Flagstaff,AZ; 928-774-3274; diabloburger.com
AZDailySun.com-For about $7, Flagstaff locals can now eat a hamburger made from beef raised as close as Anderson Mesa.
Located on Heritage Square next to Pesto Brothers, Diablo Burger is the brainchild of Derrick Widmark, who also works for the Diablo Trust.
The goal was to give Flagstaff residents (and tourists) access to grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef, while supporting local ranchers and running a restaurant with minimal environmental impact.
In short, he wants customers to feel they’re doing something good, instead of something guilty, in having a burger.
Beef is the largest crop in northern Arizona by value, Widmark said, and yet it routinely goes to customers elsewhere.
“In northern Arizona, we produce beef and we eat beef, but we don’t get to eat the meat that we produce,” Widmark said. “That doesn’t make any sense, and Diablo Burger aims to address that incongruity.”
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Address: 2477 Arctic Blvd., Downtown, Anchorage, AK, 99503 | Map It
Phone: 907/279-7311
Fodors.com-Every year when locals vote for Anchorage’s best burger joint, Arctic Roadrunner comes out on top. The no-frills decor is mostly 1950s Formica, but if you prefer made-to-order burgers to industrial fast food then this is the place for you. Eat in or drive through at the Arctic Boulevard location and head to nearby Valley of the Moon Park for a sack lunch with the kids. Ultrathick milk shakes and crunchy onion rings are also on everybody’s list of favorites. The South Anchorage location has an outdoor deck on Campbell Creek, and in midsummer you can watch spawning salmon swim past.
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Mobile, Alabama
251-433-9374
http://www.callaghansirishsocialclub.com/main.htm
Esquire.com-In Alabama’s oldest city, your evening starts with an early drink at Callaghan’s Irish Social Club, a beloved neighborhood pub in a 1920s-era building that once housed a meat market. The inside walls are covered with pictures of regulars vacationing around the world, as well as co-owner John Thompson. There are worn green-and-white tile floors and a back room that still smells of dealings made by city politicians, some of whom still stop by for a postwork drink. They also come for the burger, which in this seafood-crazed town, is universally praised as a welcome alternative. When you meet John and he makes fun of you for just about anything, don’t sweat it. It’s his way of saying thanks for stopping by and that you’re well on your to becoming a regular.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/bestbars/bb-Callaghans#ixzz11jQAUVcz
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Usatoday.com- A meat cleaver door handle opens to the Cottage Bar and Restaurant, an 83-year-old Grand Rapids institution that crafts old-school hamburgers. Despite the lip-smacking virtues of the specialty burgers — Traverse City cherry, Alaskan salmon, Tijuana guacamole — the Cottage Burger, nestled in a rye bun and dripping with American and Swiss cheese, chopped olives, lettuce, tomato and hand-crafted smoky mayonnaise, is the showstopper.
— Recommended by Jaye Beeler, food writer with Arbutuspress.com
Thanks for the heads up Aunt Maribeth!!
-BB
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BurgerBets should've gone to UF
Last Week (3-3) Overall (6-6)
Ok this is ridiculous. I know significantly more about the NFL than college football and I cannot win an NFL game or lose an NCAA game. WTF! This 3-3 every single week crap is getting old fast. I am done with it. 4-2 or bust. Oh, and by the way, that record is DECEIVING. Ask anyone who was on the BurgerBoy’s bachelor party last weekend. I literally LIT up Vegas with like 12 people strong winning EVERY SINGLE BET. It was a complete joke. Then my friend Jimbo aka FatAssBurger crashed both rental cars and that was that. Anyway, as always HOME team in CAPS.
NCAA Picks:
Northwestern (-5.5) @ MINNESOTA. Had to give you guys a day game to bet on right? Complements of BabyBurger. Next two are PRIMETIME.
Florida (+8) @ ALABAMA. I am a Tide fan through and through, but just like last week, I am betting against them. How’d that work out last week? HOGS! HOGS! HOGS! HOGS! Next week I am going to have a ridiculous video of what was happening during the Hogs-Tide game at the Burger Party. Genius. Anyway, this week it’s the Gators. If ya ain’t Gator, ya GATOR BAIT!
Stanford (+7) @ OREGON. Like you didn’t see this one coming? Guess when I won’t bet on Stanford? When they stop covering, that’s when. Dumb dumb Vegas. People love Oregon, and they’re sick and their home field advantage is awesome and I want to hit a game there big time. But bottom line is that this Stanford team is just too good to lay 7 to anyone, anywhere. End of story. That said, I will 100% be watching this entire game start to finish.
NFL Picks:
SAN DIEGO (-8) vs Arizona. The Cardinals suck. The Cardinals suck. The Cardinals suck. Get it? No? Put it this way, LobstersClaw > Cardinals. And poop > LobstersClaw. Do the math. It’s the transitive property.
PHILADELPHIA (-5.5) vs Washington. If there is one thing that BurgerBets knows it is that Donovan McNabb cannot win a big game. This is the biggest game in the NFL this season without a doubt. It will be highest rated et cetera. All eye balls on Philly at 4:15pm on Sunday. Which means he will probably freaking puke on the first drive. The guy just does not have it when it counts. Everyone is saying, “Do you know how bad Donovan wants to win this game and shove it in their face?” Well yes, I do know that, and that is EXACTLY why it won’t happen.
NEW YORK GIANTS (-3.5) vs Chicago. I like the road teams in college and the home teams in the pros. I mean if this isn’t a statement game for the Giants I don’t know what is. They are coming off 2 straight butt whooping and the Bears are not this good. I am a Cutler guy, like I said last week, so I believe they’re good, but they’re not 4-0 good. Take the Giants, watch the game, and laugh at how funny Coughlin is when he is mad (which is always).
As always, bet with me and your burgers are FREE!!!!!
-BURGERBETS
