Cheeseburger Week 2016 is here!

Celebrate the birth of the cheeseburger in the home of the cheeseburger-Pasadena. Every January we honor Lionel Sternberger for being the first to put cheese to burger and serve it to a customer in 1924 at the Rite Spot in Pasadena.

During Cheeseburger Week from January 10th to January 15th, 2016, Pasadena honors Lionel Sternberger’s genius in being the first to put cheese to hamburger and serve it at the Rite Spot in Pasadena in 1924.

Forty of Pasadena’s favorite restaurants, lounges and burger joints offer their signature burgers, some special creations and a deals  during Pasadena Cheeseburger Week.

Some, such as Alondra Hot Wings, El Portal, dusit D2 hotel constance pasadena, Bacchus‘ Kitchen, The Eatery, Grill 168 at the Hilton Pasadena and Kings Row Gastropub offer specially created burgers for Cheeseburger Week.

In 2016, Pie ‘n Burger and Lucky Baldwin’s (3 locations) are offering special deals for Cheeseburger Week. Here is the Lucky Baldwin discount coupon: Lucky Baldwin cheeseburger week discount 2016. Here is the Pie ‘n Burger special meal deal coupon: Pie ‘n Burger Special Meal Coupon 2016.

Check out all the participants and see what everyone had on the menu for Cheeseburger Week by clicking here.

Again in 2016, you can vote for your favorites in the Cheeseburger Challenge. Who makes your favorite lunch counter burger? Who serves your favorite turkey burger? Who makes your favorite veggie burger? Who serves the best beverage with a burger? You decide during Cheeseburger Week, January 10th through January 15th.

Scroll down to take the Cheeseburger Challenge. 


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Let’s all salute Lionel Sternberger for his mastery, insight, pioneering innovation and daring in placing a piece of cheese atop a hamburger for the first time in recorded culinary history at his father’s roadside stand, the Rite Spot at 1500 West Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena.

The invention of the cheeseburger at the Rite Spot has been documented by the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, cheese-burger.net, Hamburger Heaven:the Illustrated History of the Hamburger and The San Gabriel Valley Tribune. 

 

 

The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce hosts the 2016 Cheeseburger Week and Cheeseburger Challenge January 10th to 15th, 2016. Once again, you’ll be able to vote for your favorites in a number of categories, from traditional lunch counter burgers to white table cloth an alternative cheeseburgers. We’ll also have an alternative cheeseburger category or two, as well.

Plan to come to Pasadena for a Cheeseburger Crawl, take the Cheeseburger Challenge and celebrate Lionel Sternberger’s culinary legacy in the city where the cheeseburger was first served.

Scroll down to take the Cheeseburger Challenge.

Here are our participants for Cheeseburger Week 2016 in Pasadena and the gamut of burgers they each serve (click on the name to go to the web page, click on the menu item for the full restaurant burger menu):

Here are our participants for Cheeseburger Week in Pasadena and the gamut of burgers they each serve (click on the name to go to the web page, click on the menu item for the full restaurant burger menu):

Voting in the 2016 Cheeseburger Challenge opens January 10, 2016, and ends January 15, 2016.

Check out some more of our media coverage:

Pasadena Sinks Its Teeth into Cheeseburger Week NBC Southern California

Cheeseburger Week is a Pasadena Restaurant Week and California Restaurant Month vca_crm_logo_plateevent presented by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. Cheeseburger Week is generously sponsored by the City of Pasadena.