Here's the deal - the cheeseburger is the quintessential American food. A couple of years back, after reading a review in the Wall Street Journal about the best burgers in the country, only to find that three of the top five were in my own back yard, I decided that I needed to see for myself. With the help of George Motz's "Hamburger America", several lists, recommendations from friends and asking everyone about burgers from "their" town, this is the result...

If you're curious about my thoughts on foods other than burgers, check out my other blog Eat to Live? Or Live to Eat?

Friday, August 26, 2011

Hunter House Hamburgers, Birmingham, MI (August 2011)

Stop number two.

Open since 1952, Hunter House Hamburgers had a big sign out front that they had been named the best burgers in Michigan.  Yesterday, I took the challenge.  Like Carter's before it, and Motz's after it, it's all about the onions.

In fact, the T-shirts at Hunter House say "Onion breath is better than no breath."  I guess everyone needs a motto.  Apparently, they also take their breakfast serving hours quite seriously.  I REALLY don't like onions, but I decided if all the cool kids were eating them.....  So I ordered a double with onions and a small cheese fry.  
Check out the amount of onion on this burger!  

I'll have to say that I can't judge this burger fairly.  The onions were SO BAD, that even after I scraped them off, this burger still didn't taste good.  It also was a little pink in the center - not the best sign when the patty is only an eighth of a pound.  On top of that, the cheese fries were awful.  The fries themselves were bland and the cheese tasted worse than the sauce they pour onto nachos at the dollar movies.

The "best burgers" in Michigan were a disappointment.

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