Doddy Melt
The Texas take on a patty melt. A beef patty smothered in Swiss and American cheese with caramelised onions, mayo and a tangy comeback sauce, all on grilled Texas toast. It is soft, rich and a little sweet from the onions, the order for anyone who thinks buns get in the way.
The story
The Doddy Melt is Hopdoddy’s take on the patty melt, a sandwich that grew up in Los Angeles diners in the middle of the twentieth century; food writers usually credit Tiny Naylor, whose restaurants served it by the early 1950s. The classic is a beef patty with Swiss cheese and onions griddled on rye. Hopdoddy keeps the Swiss and caramelised onions but adds American cheese and a Southern comeback sauce and swaps the rye for thick Texas toast, fitting for a chain founded in Austin.
What’s inside
- beef patty
- Swiss cheese
- American cheese
- caramelised onions
- mayo
- comeback sauce
- grilled Texas toast
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Doddy Melt yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, cooked onions and cheese
Viral Bacon Spiral Burger - Shares beef, cooked onions and cheese
Onion Bomb Burger - Shares beef and cheese
Skip Marooch's Chutney Burger - Shares beef and cheese
Homemade Smash Burgers
Similar burgers at other chains
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SignatureRockstar - Goiko · beef, cooked onions and cheese
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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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