Cheeseburger Week returns January 11th – Celebrate Pasadena’s culinary history

Cheeseburger Week 2015 is coming in January.

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 11th to January 16th, 2015, 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 El Portal, Vertical Wine Bistro, The Counter, Kings Row Gastropub and Pita Jungle are offering specially created burgers for Cheeseburger Week.

In 2014, some, such as Pie ‘n Burger, El Portal and The Counter offered special deals for Cheeseburger Week.

Look for those again as January sneaks up on us.

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

Again in 2015, 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 11th through January 16th.

Scroll down to take the Cheeseburger Challenge.

  • Slater's 50/50 serves the Old Timey Burger

For 2015, we are adding several restaurants. Some participants will include special menu items or deals for patrons during Cheeseburger Week.

Now, the official song of Cheeseburger Week:

Of course it is!

Take the Cheeseburger Challenge beginning January 11th and vote for your favorites.

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. Even CNN is on the story:

The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce hosts the third Cheeseburger Week and Cheeseburger Challenge January 12th to 17th, 2014. 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.

Take the Cheeseburger Challenge.

Here are our participants for the 2014 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):

For address, menu and special offer information click on Restaurant Participants above.

Voting in the 2015 Cheeseburger Challenge opens January 11, 2015, and ends January 19, 2015.

Check out some more of our media coverage:

Pasadena Sinks Its Teeth into Cheeseburger Week NBC Southern California

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Cheeseburger Week is a Pasadena Restaurant Week and California Restaurant Monthevent presented by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. Cheeseburger Week is generously sponsored by the City of Pasadena, Southern California Gas Company Advanced Meter and Trusted Choice Agents of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena.

93.1 Jack-FM and the Pasadena Independent/Beacon Media News are helping promote Cheeseburger Week.