{"id":407936,"date":"2010-03-09T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2010-03-09T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:54:11","slug":"the-burger-search-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407936","title":{"rendered":"The burger search is on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who, in more than 200 comments on this blog, gave me an idea of where to start looking for the city&#8217;s best and most interesting burgers. There is a real burger revolution afoot as restaurants rethink the staple menu item. The 8-ounce patty that you can barely fit your mouth around has given way to much more elegant and carefully constructed sandwiches. I&#8217;m noticing several trends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to the runaway success of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holeman-finch.com\"><strong>Holeman &#38; Finch Public House<\/strong><\/a> 10 p.m. burger, stacks are in. Gooey, drippy, American-cheesy stacks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipburgerboutique.com\"><strong>F<\/strong><strong>lip Burger Boutique<\/strong><\/a> has found the sweet spot between ginormous and slider with its 5-ounce burger. You savor every bite, you have room for one of the creative sides and, heck, you maybe order a second one to share with a friend.<\/li>\n<li>Burgers served in fast-food restaurants and made from some supermarket ground beef can be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/04\/health\/04meat.html\">ultimate in unwholesome mystery meat<\/a>. So more and more burger places are reassuring customers that the beef is from a reliable &#0133;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who, in more than 200 comments on this blog, gave me an idea of where to start looking for the city&#8217;s best and most interesting burgers. There is a real burger revolution afoot as restaurants rethink the staple menu item. The 8-ounce patty that you can barely fit your mouth around has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}