Smokey Rösti
Beef with a crisp potato rösti, burger cheese and a smoky jam. The rösti takes the place of fries inside the bun, and the jam brings a sweet, smoky edge. A lighter cousin of the Marktschreier, without the egg and truffle.
The story
Rösti began as a farmers’ breakfast in the Swiss canton of Bern and neighbouring Fribourg: coarsely grated potatoes fried in a pan until a golden crust forms. It became so closely tied to German-speaking Switzerland that the language border with the French-speaking west is jokingly called the Röstigraben, the rösti ditch, and many Swiss count it as a national dish. Putting a rösti on a burger gives the soft bun a crisp, buttery layer; Hans im Glück pairs it with a smoky jam and burger cheese.
What’s inside
- beef patty
- potato rösti
- burger cheese
- smokey jam
- lettuce
- red onion
- tomato
- house burger sauce
- bun of choice
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Smokey Rösti yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, a special sauce and cheese
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
Skip Marooch's Chutney Burger - Shares beef and cheese
Whopper (Copycat)
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Smokey Rösti.- Peter Pane · beef, a special sauce and cheese
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SignatureShackBurger - Carl's Jr. · beef, a special sauce and cheese
SignatureFamous Star with Cheese - Crown Burgers · beef, a special sauce and 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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