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2009 — A Burger Retrospective

December 30th, 2009 by Richard Chudy

This year flew by. A blog devoted to burgers just kind of happened, my love affair with burgers is nothing new, but after going on a trip to Louis Lunch in early May, Nick and I decided to embark on a personal quest to eat our way through every burger in Boston and figure out what was the best. And that’s how it started, and that’s how it will continue to go, until we try them all. I don’t know if there is such a thing as perfection, especially in terms of food, for every perfectly cooked burger, there’s a burger with too much mayo, or over-fried potatoes, or just a lack of salt. I haven’t really that had that combination of affordability, burger greatness, perfect fries and attentive service. Maybe it doesn’t exist, or maybe I’m asking too much, but I’m remain optimistic. We started our quest in May, didn’t know where we were headed, but did know that no one else was doing what we were in Boston. We were so fortunate to have met Nick Dixon at Lucky’s Lounge, and by a freak occurrence had a brief blurb written about myself and the blog in the Boston Globe. There was the Burger Crawl, in which sixteen of us braved the Woodstock-esque conditions and powered our way through the streets of Cambridge until we were ready to explode. I swore I’d never eat that much again, but Burger Crawl 2010 is already in the works, you’ve been warned. continue reading »