Avocado Bacon Burger
A cheeseburger with smoky bacon and slices of ripe avocado that started life as a limited special and refused to leave. The cool, creamy avocado sits against the hot, salty bacon, and it works best when the avocado is properly ripe, which at a busy Shack it usually is. Richer than the SmokeShack, less punchy.
The story
Shake Shack keeps its menu short on purpose and lets limited specials audition for a permanent slot rather than adding items outright. This is one of the few that passed. It ran as a special, sold well enough that taking it away caused complaints, and stayed. The test it had to pass is the same one the ’Shroom Burger passed years earlier: the menu is small enough that anything permanent has to earn its line by being ordered instead of something else, not alongside it.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Avocado Bacon Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon, avocado and cheese
Peter’s Fuddruckers Burger - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Cheeseburger Wellington - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Jelly Doughnut Burger - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Elvis Luther Burger
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Avocado Bacon Burger.- Farmer Boys · beef, bacon, avocado and a special sauce
SignatureFarmer’s Burger - Ruby's Diner · beef, bacon, avocado and a special sauce
The Cobb Burger - Whataburger · beef, bacon, avocado and cheese
Avocado Bacon Burger - RocoMamas · beef, bacon, avocado and cheese
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About Shake Shack
Shake Shack began as a hot dog cart in New York’s Madison Square Park in 2001, run by restaurateur Danny Meyer to support an art project in the park. The lines got so long that a permanent kiosk opened there in 2004, and the ShackBurger it sold became one of the most imitated burgers in America.
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