Sean Evans Tastes the Best Burgers in Chicago | The Burger Show

Because it's not that we need more

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s in our country, we always need more

burger

s, from unique regional specialties to high-end classics. Chicago has earned a reputation as a major burger destination in the Midwest, so who better to combine forces than with the city's local hero, Spice Lord Himself Sean Evans, let's go on an epic burger haul. with local burger expert Kevin Pang to explore the

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that Chicago has to offer, guys, welcome to the burger

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, we're long overdue for the Midwest and we're in Chicago. Honey, it's great to be back. I left Chicago five years ago and moved to New York at that time.

He was working as an editor for the city's Tourism Board. Which was amazing. You would know about restaurant openings before they happen and then even before. who was doing architectural tours of the Chicago River Quinn it's me give me a building I'll tell you how tall the Sears Tower is now the will stone 1451 feet tall Kevin there's no real capacity how tall it is there are the Marina City towers designed by Bertrand Goldberg in 1967 I can't give you a height, she failed at her job. greetings acog va first lady greetings Chicago Architecture Foundation amazing, today we are going to three places that represent burgers from the street version to a much more classic version of Chicago and then a place that I consider the

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burger in Chicago right now , even better than au cheval.

I'm in the mindset of what makes a good Chicago burger. I mean, you read jungle when you're in high school, right? Upton Sinclair cliffnotes, that's fine with me too, but you know, it's a meeting potato bill, you'll have a lot of chefs who make high-end burgers, but also the street burger. I mean, I think that's what we're doing. Today it's like seeing the hamburger for the masses and then the hamburger for the classes, yes, yes, and I feel like Chicago achieves that. I would love to sit and chat with you about architecture all day. Postmodern contextualism.

The roaring 20s. It's all fascinating, but I'm hungry and it's time for lunch, let's do it after dinner. He likes old, wrinkled, warm balls that go little by little, so I don't think I'm going too far in saying this. it's very much a quintessential Chicago dining experience, right down to the color scheme, you've got the Vienna beef signs all around us, we've got hot dogs that have been run around the yard and then of course this burger here , yes, the latest strange bras and mooches, this is it. As a classic Chicago hot dog burger stand, this is pretty representative of the type of burgers you'll find at these types of hot dog stands.

I'm surprised it looks great. It's a charcoal grill. It has two four-ounce patties, so it weighs half a pound. It has a brioche bun. It has their proprietary sauce and of course it has mirch cheddar, which is this spicy cheese spread from Wisconsin. I can't wait, let's dig in, oh man, it's almost like something more complex and people might hate me for saying it like cheese, we take it. Proudly, this is just one man's opinion, but I always feel that you should choose, perhaps, three ingredients are less in our murder. Okay, this type of restaurant is like a commodity in Chicago, there are a lot of these as they grow and we would go to Northwestern. football or Bears games, so my dad always took us to Hackney's, that was really a taste of my youth.

This is the kind of burger that you'll find around schools and after school, after soccer practice, you come here. the kind of burger you're going to get on that note Sean, a little bird, told me you're a star quarterback in a game in high school, what was that? Well, the story goes to the front. Christian color and he was, he was a really good quarterback. I had a college blues anytime on Sunday where he broke his collarbone and they had to say, where's Sean? where is Sean? I have to go try to find my helmet. I ran there in my first game.

I'm like Doug Flutie. I'm leaving. I'm making plays third, throwing long touchdowns. I'm on top of the world we conquered. Dundee crown, you know, I feel like this is my Johnny Moxon moment, we lose the next game, we lose the next game, we lose the next game, we lose the next game, we lose the next game, we lose the next game, we lose the last game against Grayslake by 40 points and you were the quarterback, yeah, yeah, I read burgers, okay Shawn, you were a copywriter for the city of Chicago, sell me this burger, elevator pitch, a real taste of Chicago, nailed it, win, okay, Gordo, you closed a high bar, now it's. to the next favorite actor Dennehy favorite drink Oh Jules has hawks The Sox play football with the guy's wife make curly fries drink for the lost ground to bust flies in town now stop and get more brats for sale chicken and buying sausages, gentlemen , now we're on the Loyalists, about three years ago, I came here with my wife and I had this burger and back then everyone was talking about Osia Ball, who was kind of the reigning champion of the Chicago fancy burger, and I had this one. and I thought we had a new winner, retire the trophy.

Wow, and I think I like this because, as we talked about the spirit of simplicity, it's cheese and onions, onions, onions, and it's essentially onion mayonnaise, we have pickled onions. I have raw onions, cucumbers every time we go somewhere nice. You know, I put it. I know that any bib bust. I took off my bib. You know it's serious, so Travis, yeah, it's delicious. There are different types of textures. Yes, you can notice it. There is a custom blend in this delicious Chuck and Ribs, you definitely feel like this is an elevated dining experience. I have always been a firm believer that beef and onions are best friends and this one takes it to the next level, you said to the chef, make me a classic restaurant burger, this is what he came up with, what do you think of Baller's snacks?

You had gold leaf chicken wings with Casey and I said yes. I mean, for some reason, I'm either extremely high or extremely short, so I like it. make food, yeah, kind of, but I like to eat food from a truck and then I like the most expensive thing in the category, the middle one doesn't do anything for me, I understand if someone says it's our fancy version of the Big Mac That Pete man I'm on yeah every time I'm on the 'gram right now and this burger has clout yeah so he has his own Instagram we have 5,000 180 followers and we only follow Mia Khalifa so we This is one of the most famous burgers, my Mia.

Khalifa, right, this burger has guys, a loyal jumper, fantastic, you know those places that put like a piece of pork belly, yeah, or like beef brisket, yeah, of course, how would you pitch this? Hmm, there are worse ways to spend $16, okay, gentlemen. We're in the region, we're in Roscoe Village in Chicago, and I think this is Illinois and Indiana's biggest contribution to burger cuisine. Well, this is the spectacular burger. Now I know it's big at Shake Shack and Steak and Shake, but this requires the smash the burger to the extreme and the way I like to describe it is that it looks like the planet Saturn, yeah you don't want to be, it's the meat that has rings on it, This restaurant was inspired by a Northwest Indiana chain called Shoes and the Chef. here in the region he actually worked in the troops when he was a child, the problem here, as you can see, is that it is not just crushing, but it takes a trowel like what a bricklayer uses, any piece of garbage, it is like a piece sliver like a fries, yes it's crispy beef, the smash burger is probably my favorite style of burger and it looks like it weighs 20 ounces right, yeah, 7 ounces more burger than anything else we've ever made, yeah no , I just need more hamburgers.

Amazing, I try this. Wow, the advantage. perfectly seasoned, this is a burger smash turned into Mach 5. I think what I love about the burger smash is that it's so idiot proof, you know, making it is very simple and then the burger is a simple man with simple

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. meat, cheese, bread, Chris, penis, yes, you have experience doing this, you've done it before, shots of babish right here, oh, how easy, you can't try with all your might, you can't, you know, it's super exciting to try this in a restaurant. Because I actually ate this at his George Motz house, he made us a Lacey edged burger and he

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ed us the technique where you're like flattening the burger and then you're tapering all the edges, you know you have this super influential hyper-burger. regional that hasn't hit my radar it's been around this area for a long time and in LA this is hot this is new this is the new way like there are guys showing up out of nowhere making this style of burger it should be known it should be no , this is where we've been making this burger for 75 years, you know, the hottest trend in burgers comes from the Midwest and then in Chicago we don't care, it's like this is a good burger, we enjoy it, period, period, maybe if we can change something about people's eating habits when they come to Chicago, okay, they come to Chicago, they could see the Sears Tower and then go to Navy Pier, right? deep dish pizza, forget what the writers who have written for the Chicago Tourism Board say, who are trying to sell you an elevator pitch, like just come to burner places, go to Fatso's and Loyalists and the regions from the world and try something that is unique to Chicago.

I know what Chicago was all about through the meat, cheese and bun. Is incredible. Kohi holds hands for a second and just being COO getting this understanding of Chicago through the burger and before I close, I just want to say thank you. You guys know I always love coming back to Chicago and today I feel like I saw a different side. You know it's always the hot dogs and the pizza that are at the forefront of the conversation and the burgers need more shine and I'm happy that I made it today, oh yeah man that was great, thank you, thank you, that was fun through from the beef, cheese and bun burger show, baby, what's up burger family?

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