Photo: BurgervilleGrass-Fed Sweet Onion Burger
The most grown-up burger on the menu. Grass-fed beef, aged white cheddar from Face Rock Creamery, a sweet onion spread and onions cooked soft on the griddle. There is no lettuce or tomato to get in the way, so it is all savoury beef and sweet onion. Richer and pricier than the classics, and worth it.
The story
Walla Walla sweet onions are a specific thing, not a description. The seed came from Corsica to the Walla Walla valley around the turn of the twentieth century and was selected over decades for sweetness and size, and the name is now legally protected to a defined growing area in Washington and Oregon. They have a short season and do not travel or store like a regular onion, which is exactly why a chain that refuses to leave the Pacific Northwest can build a burger on them and nobody else can.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Grass-Fed Sweet Onion Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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Sloppy Joe Smash Burgers - Shares beef and cheese
Best Hamburger Ever - Shares beef and cheese
TOP 2McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
Skip Marooch's Chutney Burger
Similar burgers at other chains
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About Burgerville
George Propstra opened the first Burgerville in Vancouver, Washington, in 1961, and the chain has never strayed far from home. Every location sits within a short drive of Portland, and on highways leaving its territory there are billboards warning that the next Burgerville is roughly 24,700 miles away, the long way round the planet.
Around 40 restaurants, all in Oregon and southwest Washington, most of them around Portland.
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