For the burger obsessed: Burgers in Tulsa

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The Good, the Greasy and the Quadruple-Decker
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/08/dining/08BURG.html

"WITHOUT looking up from his clippers, David Boswell quietly and thoughtfully discussed the various burgers of his hometown. Mr. Boswell, the owner of the Coleman Barber Shop, a one-chair operation on First Street in Miami, Okla., prefers the thick burgers at the Stables, a local casino.

"They have a pretty good chunk of meat out there," he said.

Mr. Boswell was as deliberate in his restaurant recommendation as he was in his craft, but he was no more careful in his referrals than were the dozens of other helpful citizens we spoke with as we traveled more than 5,300 miles this summer seeking the favorite burger joints of small towns (at least in spirit, if not size) across America..."

I love finding stuff like this, old, one-off posts, on a random locale with useful information yielded after a bit of digging.

Just got back from lunch at Hank's Hamburgers in Tulsa, a very good burger.

The patty quality was not exceptional on its own, and the uniform roundness suggests preformed beef, but the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.

The coup de grâce would have been the Big Okie, a four-patty burger, but I was not up to the task. Each patty is a quarter pound, and about 4 inches across.

Instead got a double with cheese, grilled onions (chopped, then pressed between the griddle and the hamburger patty so they're caramelized in the burger fat), lettuce, tomato, pickle, ketchup, mustard, and seasoning. Especially nice use of the pickle. And the shredded lettuce, which I can usually do without, worked nicely.

Got tater tots, not fries, and they were top notch, crispy outside, creamy inside, just the right salty, and somehow stayed hot until I finished them and the burger.

For dessert, I had a housemade chocolate-covered peanut butter candy. Also excellent. The peanut butter filling was like fat plus, exceptionally creamy, almost liquid. One, though they aren't huge, is a satisfactory dessert. Two, as I found out, is too much.

Thanks for the link, Steve.

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