Burgerville

518 N.E. 3rd, Camas, WA - (360) 834-3289

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Posted By Michael Stern on January 19, 2006 11:11 PM

Burgerville’s burgers are superb, especially the Colossal Tillamook Cheddar Bacon Cheeseburgers. But there’s much more to this fast-food eatery with thirty-nine outlets in and around Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Every Spring, it gets North Pacific halibut for fish and chips. Deep fried until brittle-crisp, each piece feels featherlight and flakes into pearl white hunks that drip flavor. Recently, a totally local-produce salad was added to the menu: Oregon smoked salmon with Tillamook cheese (from a coastal creamery) and a great spill of crushed roasted hazelnuts from a farmers’ co-op called Oregon Orchard.

Hazelnuts are huge in Oregon (where old-timers still call them filberts), and prior to the salad’s introduction, the best-known hazelnut item on the menu was the chocolate hazelnut milkshake, available every year from January through April as part of the seasonal milk shake menu: strawberry shakes starting in April, then raspberry, blackberry, and peach shakes, and huckleberry and pumpkin shakes in the fall.

George Brown, executive chef of Burgerville, is a fanatic about local foods. When we visited with him several months ago, he was wild about a new burger he is introducing to the menu. Of course, it’s made with Oregon beef; and that’s topped with smokehouse pepper bacon and creamy spread made from Rogue River Valley blue cheese. With a chocolate hazelnut milk shake, that five-dollar bacon cheeseburger was one of the best we’ve ever had, anywhere at any price.

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Chocolate Hazelnut Milk Shake

Bacon Cheeseburger

Smoked Salmon & Hazelnut Salad

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