Photo: Crown BurgersCrown Burger
A quarter-pound cheeseburger buried under hot, thinly sliced pastrami, with thousand island dressing, lettuce, tomato and onion. The pastrami adds salt, smoke and a peppery edge, and the dressing pulls it together. It is heavy and wonderful, and it is the burger Salt Lake City is known for.
The story
The pastrami burger was first served by James Katsanevas, a relative of the founders, at Minos Burgers in Anaheim, California, who had learned it from a Los Angeles cook of Turkish descent. When the families opened Crown Burgers in Utah they put it on the menu as the Crown Burger, and it became so popular that pastrami burgers spread across Salt Lake City.
What’s inside
- 1/4 lb beef patty
- hot pastrami
- American cheese
- thousand island dressing
- lettuce
- tomato
- onion
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Crown Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
McDonald's Daily Double (Copycat) - Shares beef, a special sauce and cheese
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Big Beef Blopper
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Crown Burger.- Hans im Glück · beef, a special sauce, cheese and a double stack
Hochstapler - Burger Urge · beef, a special sauce, cheese and a double stack
Cali Stax Double - Farmer Boys · beef, a special sauce, cheese and a double stack
SignatureBig Cheese - Supermac’s · beef, a special sauce, cheese and a double stack
Signature5oz Beef Burger
About Crown Burgers
Nick Katsanevas and John Katzourakis, two Greek-American families who had lost their jobs in California, opened the first Crown Burgers in Salt Lake City in 1978. The menu mixes American burgers with the food of Greek immigrant carts: gyros, souvlaki, fish and chips, and a house fry sauce.
Seven restaurants, all in Utah.
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