Birkenwald
Named after the birch forest that fills every Hans im Glück dining room: beef with mushrooms, chives and sour cream. The sour cream and chives give it a cool, almost baked-potato flavour against the mushrooms. A gentle, savoury burger rather than a loud one.
What’s inside
- beef patty
- mushrooms
- chives
- sour cream
- lettuce
- red onion
- tomato
- house burger sauce
- bun of choice
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Birkenwald yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and mushrooms
Portobello Mushroom Burgers - Shares beef and mushrooms
French Onion Burgers - Shares beef and a special sauce
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef and mushrooms
Mushroom Swiss Burger
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Birkenwald.- Shake Shack · beef, mushrooms and a special sauce
’Shroom Burger - Hopdoddy Burger Bar · beef and mushrooms
Magic Shroom - Carl's Jr. · beef and a special sauce
SignatureFamous Star with Cheese - Crown Burgers · beef and a special sauce
SignatureCrown Burger
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About Hans im Glück
Thomas Hirschberger, who had already built the Sausalitos cocktail-bar chain, opened the first Hans im Glück in Munich’s Neuhausen district in 2010. The name comes from the Brothers Grimm tale of Hans, who trades a lump of gold for ever smaller things and ends up happier with nothing, and the restaurants lean into the fairy-tale mood: dark furniture and a forest of bare birch trunks standing among the tables. The look was distinctive enough to end up in court, in a copyright dispute with a designer that was settled in 2016.
Close to a hundred restaurants, most of them in Germany, with branches in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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