BURGER SCOOT

My wife and I took a long-overdue vacation last month. We visited London, Bath, Oxford, and Greenwich. Then we took the bullet train under the Channel and spent the last few days in Paris. There were quite a few scooters in England, but nothing like there were in Paris, where they were virtually everywhere. It… Read more

How long would you wait for a hamburger—especially if you heard that this burger was extraordinary? Would you wait 20 or 30 minutes, or even an hour? How about 75 minutes? That is how long I waited for my burger at The Shack, a California-style pub located on Folsom Blvd in East Sacramento. The restaurant… Read more

Back in my college days, I had a friend and fellow journalism student who enjoyed checking out pizza places around the Sacramento area with me. We found some interesting ones, both high-end and run-down, but it never failed that after one or two bites of my first slice, he would say, “You know, there was… Read more

When I first started working in Downtown Sacramento, I frequented Jim-Denny’s Hamburgers at least once a month. In recent years, however, I only visit the place a few times a year. The quality has gone down over the years. Still, it is a good place to get a burger, fries, and a drink for only… Read more

Nationwide Freezer Meats was the place where I discovered a hamburger could be something more than a Big Mac or Whopper. I remember the first time I bit into a French Ground Steak Burger, it was as if I was tasting a hamburger for the first time, and all the Big Macs and Whoppers were… Read more

I started this blog thinking of scooters and the Great American Hamburger Stand. Here in Sacramento the first places that came to mind were Scott’s Burger Shack, Ford’s Real Hamburgers, Cookie’s Drive In, and Whitey’s Jolly Kone. It only took two months for me to stray from this approach and begin visiting restaurants that many… Read more