BURGER SCOOT

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  • Gourmet v Grease, and the Garden Highway

    I am eating a $14 hamburger to the sound of jackhammers. As more shops Downtown close in these hard times, at least the City is busy carving up asphalt to lay more pipe, fiber optics, or whatever. Choosing a patio table at Ella Dining Room & Bar during this time…

  • My Belated Return to the Squeeze Inn

    No survey of Sacramento area hamburgers would be complete without a pilgrimage to Mecca—the Squeeze Inn. While there have always been contenders for the best hamburger in the Sacramento Area—Jamie’s on Broadway, Jerry’s Tumbleweed Inn on Folsom Blvd., and Cookie’s on H Street, to name three popular contenders—the Squeeze Inn…

  • One Tasty (and Expensive) Cafeteria Burger

    Since February 15, the upscale restaurant Mason’s is no longer on the corner of 15th and L Streets in Sacramento. Cafeteria 15L—a casual, but stylish, eatery serving comfort foods like meatloaf, fried chicken, salads, and sandwiches–is now on that corner. Owners Alan, Curtis, and Mason Wong, who also own the…

  • IL Inferno Scorciante Due and a Hot Burger too!

    The best way to experience scooter culture is to attend a rally, and no sooner after starting this blog did the Vespa Club of Sacramento announce its second annual rally IL Inferno Scorciante Due (or The Hottest Hell 2). So, on Friday night July 23, I scooted to The Bonn…

  • Scootin’ for a Fatboy

    Scootin’ up Franklin Boulevard you cannot miss Scott’s Burger Shack (4127 Franklin Blvd.). A small, spray-painted white building situated almost on the street on the East side of the busy thoroughfare. There is no inside seating at Scott’s and only three sticky-blue benches on one side of the appropriately named…

  • Hamburgers & Helmets

    ** UPDATE: J’s Cafe is now “Dad’s on J Street.” I would cover this new restaurant, but Dad’s has almost the exact same menu and the food quality has not changed. ** I have been going to J’s Café since the early 1990s and over the years the food has…

  • Ford’s Gets “Real"

    Until recently, I have not been a fan of Ford’s Real Hamburgers and that was too bad since it is so close to my home. In my first visit in about five years, I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy a good, if not great, hamburger and remarkably good fries in…

  • Stress Dreams—a Burgerless Post

    My wife has stress dreams from time to time. While some people claim dreams can be interpreted, she thinks not, but believes stress dreams “are a release, a way your body copes with stress.” If that is the case then, in her line of work, it is good that she…

  • Before I Get to Scootin’…

    Two things about me: I love hamburgers and I love my new scooter. Since I have not posted anything on my Jockomo blog since January of 2009, I thought I would start fresh with a new one. Perhaps this will inspire me to awaken the sleeping Jockomo blog. While I…

  • Bad Movies and Lost Time

    A few years ago, I received all three Extended Edition “Lord of the Rings” DVDs for Christmas. Though I wasn’t in the mood for watching the movies at the time I wanted to make sure all the discs were in good shape before I placed them in my video library.…