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Elevation Burger

by Malcolm Bedell January 30, 2012

Here’s an interesting thought experiment for you to try: Imagine what it would be like to try and create a new fast food restaurant, from scratch. You have to try and block all of the familiar imagery that comes to mind when you picture a fast food restaurant, which basically consist of the various branding [...]

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The Food Trucks of Brunswick

by Malcolm Bedell August 19, 2011

Outside of Portland, Maine, food trucks have exploded into a national trend. Like fixed-gear bicycles and the inexplicable spike in sales of Pabst Blue Ribbon, we probably have the hipsters to thank, who transitioned the lowly mobile catering truck from “roach coach” status, suitable only for selling food outside of factories or at carnivals, into [...]

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Hamburgers al Pastor

by Malcolm Bedell June 30, 2011

As our regular readers know, I have a bit of a soft spot for tacos al pastor, the classic, bright red Mexican street food featuring thin slices of annatto-and-pineapple marinated pork, thinly carved off a vertical spit (or trompo) into corn tortillas and topped with plenty of chopped white onions and a few chunks of [...]

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Don’s Lunch

by Malcolm Bedell June 23, 2011

In the 1940′s and 1950′s, small diners and family restaurants were popping up along major highway routes and in the suburbs of every major city, turning out inexpensive, fast food, to serve a post-WWII economy. It’s easy, then, to see where McDonald’s got its start, assembly-lining identical copies of small, simply-topped, diminutive little three-ounce hamburgers [...]

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Signature Series: The Cheeseburger

by Malcolm Bedell May 9, 2011

Since early this year, Portland food bloggers have been eating hamburgers all over town, arranging our favorites into several categories, in an effort to find the best burgers available. This month, our cooperative coverage comes to a close (though of course, it’s not going to stop us from continuing to sample every burger we find). [...]

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Hamburgers: The Dogfish Bar and Grille (Bar & Pub Burgers)

by Malcolm Bedell April 11, 2011

The Dogfish Bar and Grille on Free Street was one of the first places we ate in Portland. On a July afternoon last Summer, we stumbled in the front door, sweaty and exhausted both physically from the heat of the day and our drive across the East Coast in a 28′ truck just days before, [...]

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Harmon’s Lunch

by Malcolm Bedell April 8, 2011

I can’t remember eating two cheeseburgers faster than I did at Harmon’s Lunch. I even had the presence of mind to order two, right upfront, so that I wouldn’t be delayed waiting for a second cheeseburger. In fact, maybe that was my mistake: maybe a forced intermission between burgers would have served me better. Harmon’s [...]

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Hamburgers: Five Fifty-Five (Fine Dining Burgers)

by Malcolm Bedell March 7, 2011

For this month’s hamburger wrapup, Portland food bloggers tackled restaurants from the “Fine Dining” category of local eateries. It was a category I looked forward to with mixed expectations; while you can almost always count on having a burger that has been cooked with care at a “Fine Dining” restaurant, there is also the potential [...]

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Hamburgers: Miss Portland Diner (Diners & Sandwich Shops)

by Malcolm Bedell January 17, 2011

After the success of last year’s “Thai-o-rama” tasting experiment, in which our fellow Portland food bloggers heroically sampled every Thai restaurant in the city, we decided to change things up a little bit for this year’s project. Though we didn’t get on board until the end stages of last year’s project, my sense is that, [...]

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