Elsässer
The Alsatian: beef with Camembert and lingonberries. Soft, ripe cheese with a sharp red berry is a combination Germans know from baked Camembert, and on a burger it turns rich and sweet-sour. Not for everyone, but it is the burger that best shows the menu is German first and American second.
What’s inside
- beef patty
- Camembert
- lingonberries
- lettuce
- red onion
- tomato
- house burger sauce
- bun of choice
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Elsässer yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and a special sauce
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beefThe Fuddruckers Ranch Burger
- Shares beef
Portobello Mushroom Burgers
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Elsässer.- Shake Shack · beef and a special sauce
Hamburger - Carl's Jr. · beef and a special sauce
SignatureFamous Star with Cheese - Crown Burgers · beef and a special sauce
SignatureCrown Burger - Hardee's · beef and a special sauce
Famous Star with Cheese
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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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