During Cheeseburger Week 2014, the Pasadena Chamber hosts Again in 2014, 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 12th through January 17th.

The public is invited to take the Cheeseburger Challenge and vote for their favorite cheeseburger at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com during Pasadena Cheeseburger Week. Voting opens on Sunday, January 12th and ends on Sunday, January 19th. Cheeseburger Challenge categories include Favorite Burger Restaurant, Favorite Lunch Counter Burger, Favorite Sit-Down/White Table Cloth Burger, Favorite New Burger Restaurant, Favorite Beer and Burger, Favorite Sliders and many other categories.

Everyone is invited to celebrate the birth of the cheeseburger in the home of the Cheeseburger: Pasadena, California, from January 12 -17, 2013, during Pasadena Cheeseburger Week.

Sponsored by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Cheeseburger Week commemorates teenaged Lionel Sternberger’s culinary experiment in the early 1920s at his father’s restaurant, The Rite Spot on West Colorado Boulevard.  Legend has it that young Lionel Sternberger burned a hamburger and, to cover his error, added a slice of cheese to the burger then served it to a delighted customer. Either that or a hobo, wanting a little extra protein, asked the kid behind the counter to add cheese to his $0.15 hamburger and the rest is culinary history.  The Rite Spot’s Aristocratic Burger was a favorite with customers for decades and was priced at that same $0.15 for twenty years.  

Jake's Pasadena, Slater’s 50/50, Trattorian Neapolis, Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ and Kings Row Gastropub join Pie ‘n Burger, a/k/a: an American Bistro, The Counter, Clearman’s Galley, La Grande Orange Café, Vertical Wine Bistro, BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, El Portal, Haven Gastropub + Brewery and many others in offering a cheeseburger or cheeseburger alternative during the week of January 15 to January 19, 2014. Try them all and vote for your favorite in our Cheeseburger Challenge.

Special menus, deals and discoveries can be found online at http://www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com.

Here is a full list of participating restaurants (to date):

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