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I sat down at the last Hamburger Hamlet in Southern California, in the Valley, with the owners for the Marilyn Burger and the Zucchini Zircles. The patties are Harris Ranch beef from Central California, an 80/20 grind, hand formed to order. They told me they tried other beef before they opened and there was a real difference.
The flavor of the meat comes through first. It isn’t covered up by the bread, tomato, pickles or avocado, and it’s juicy all the way through from that fat. It’s a simple burger, perfectly executed: lettuce, tomato, pickles, a good bun and a quality patty. That’s what you want.
The Zucchini Zircles are from the original menu, and I remember them from the Sunset location when I was a kid. They’re fresh and not over-fried; you still taste the zucchini, and the original apricot sauce is what ties it together. Sometimes old is better. The first Hamlet opened in 1950 on Sunset, when a burger cost about 35 cents.
Credit For Music – “Ice Flow” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Hamburger Hamlet
4419 Van Nuys Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
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