Tickets are on sale for this year’s edition of the Hamburger Hop, the part of Chicago Gourmet where chefs compete to make exotic burgers. I wrote about it last year when I was a judge, and guess what—I’ll be one again along with WXRT’s Lin Brehmer and chef Spike Mendelsohn (Good Stuff Eatery), who won last year. (I’m credited as being from Reader sibling the Sun-Times—guess I’m moving with Dumke!) The star studded list of burger chefs competing includes Chris Curren of Seven Lions, Ryan McCaskey of Acadia, Doug Psaltis of RPM Steak, and others. There will also be beer from Lagunitas and an afterparty at the Underground. It’s Friday, September 25; get your tickets here.
- Michael Gebert
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• Are Bruce Springsteen impersonators a thing? You can find out this Tuesday at Publican Quality Meats, when Cosmo Goss (the Publican) and Erling Wu-Bower (Nico Osteria) go mano-a-burgero, Three Floyds introduces two new beers (Calumet Queen and La Noche Se Mueve, a coffee IPA), and . . . a Bruce Springsteen impersonator will be on hand, bringing darkness to the edge of Fulton Street, because baby, we were born to grill. It’s $14 per burger, with a piece of the proceeds benefiting Experimental Station, an arts organization on the south side; first come, first served starting at 6 PM.
