Photo: Hopdoddy Burger BarCadillac Wagyu
Hopdoddy’s steakhouse burger, and it earns the name. A half-pound Wagyu patty with Swiss cheese, thick steakhouse bacon, crispy fried onions, steak sauce, truffle aioli, roasted tomato and peppery arugula. It is rich and savoury in every direction, and the arugula is the only thing stopping it from being too much. A dinner, not a lunch.
The story
American Wagyu is not Japanese Wagyu. Japan exported a handful of breeding cattle in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, then closed the door and declared the breeds a national treasure, so every Wagyu animal raised in the United States descends from that small group and is almost always crossed with Angus. The result marbles heavily without the extreme fat of Japanese beef, which is precisely what a burger wants: enough intramuscular fat to stay rich through a hot griddle, without turning to liquid.
What’s inside
- 1/2 lb Wagyu patty
- Swiss cheese
- steakhouse bacon
- crispy fried onions
- steak sauce
- truffle aioli
- roasted tomato
- arugula
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Cadillac Wagyu yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon, crispy onions and cooked onions
Viral Bacon Spiral Burger - Shares beef, bacon, crispy onions and cooked onions
Fat Mimolette Bacon & Fried Onion Burger - Shares beef, bacon, crispy onions and cooked onions
Onion Bomb Burger - Shares beef, bacon, cheese and a double stack
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger
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About Hopdoddy Burger Bar
Hopdoddy opened on South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, in 2010, and the name gives away the idea: hops, as in craft beer, and a “doddy”, an old Scottish word for a hornless cow. It was built as a burger bar for a city that takes both food and drink seriously, with beef ground in-house and buns baked daily.
Around 40 burger bars, most of them in Texas and the western US.
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