A.1. Steakhouse
Built to taste like a steak dinner: two patties with Swiss cheese, crispy fried onions and A.1. steak sauce. The tangy, peppery sauce is the whole point, and the fried onions give it crunch. If you grew up with A.1. on the table, this will feel familiar.
The story
A.1. is older than every chain on this site and older than the hamburger itself. Henderson William Brand, a cook to King George IV, made the sauce in England in the 1820s, and the story goes that the king pronounced it A.1., which became the name. It crossed to the United States later in the century and ended up so firmly attached to steak that putting it on a burger is enough, on its own, to make the burger read as a steakhouse dish.
What’s inside
- 2 beef patties
- Swiss cheese
- crispy fried onions
- A.1. steak sauce
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the A.1. Steakhouse yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, crispy onions, cooked onions and cheese
Viral Bacon Spiral Burger - Shares beef, crispy onions, cooked onions and cheese
Fat Mimolette Bacon & Fried Onion Burger - Shares beef, crispy onions, cooked onions and cheese
Onion Bomb Burger - Shares beef, crispy onions and cheese
X-Cell-Ent Burger
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About Wayback Burgers
Wayback started in 1991 as Jake’s Hamburgers in Newark, Delaware. It began franchising in the 2000s, became Jake’s Wayback Burgers in 2010 and dropped the Jake’s in 2014 to avoid confusion with another chain. Head office is now in Cheshire, Connecticut, and the brand has spread from New England to Texas and California.
Well over a hundred franchised restaurants in the US, plus branches abroad including Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Japan.
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