Satisfy your burger cravings when Cheeseburger Week hits Pasadena January 11th to January 16th

 

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 Green Street Restaurant, El Portal, The Counter, Kings Row Gastropub and Pita Jungle are offering specially created burgers for Cheeseburger Week.

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.

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.

Here are some of our participants for the 2015 Cheeseburger Week in Pasadena. (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

Cheeseburger Week is a Pasadena Restaurant Week and California Restaurant Monthvca_crm_logo_plateevent 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.