Well, we'd never heard of Diablo Burger so this was fresh news to us. So we hot-footed it over to the Diablo Burger website and instantly became totally raptured by the place. Even though we're still 750+ miles and several weeks away from our Arizona Winter Sojourn, we're practically frothing at the mouth to chow down on a Diablo Burger. This is precisely and exactly the type of eatery we want to support and celebrate. They are all about LOCAL and, better yet, their beef comes from a couple of legendary ranches over by Chavez Pass flanking the famed Palatkwapi Trail. The company's website is a total hoot and a genuine delight to read. Here's two sample snips from the website: "Why don't you take charge cards?" Answer: "Because banks don't serve cheeseburgers." "...gastronomy: another word for cheeseburger."
OK, here's yer linkages:
Click here for the Daily Sun snip that alerted us to this place.
Click here for The USA Today story.
Click here for the Diablo Burger website.
As a side note, the whole USA Today article had some very personal connections. Get this--the top burger joint listed in my home state of Indiana is West Lafayette's Triple XXX. My Mom worked as a cap hop there in 1941! In fact, she was walking to work there on Dec. 7th, 1941 when she got the news about Pearl Harbor. I grew up with the Triple XXX so it was a shock to see it listed as Indiana's top burger place.
Next, Utah's top burger hot spot is in Kamas. Kamas is a pinprick on the Utah map. Oddly, however, five years agot to the day today, we were arriving in Kamas to do a volunteer stint with the Forest Service there. Sadly, we never went into that hole-in-the-wall place. Somehow, we thought it would be your typical frozen burger fare. Nobody in Kamas ever even mentioned the place.
And let's move on to Wyoming. Note that La Barge is listed as having the top burger joint in the state. La Barge is truly in the middle of nowhere. See for yourself on Google Maps or Mapquest. But there's a heck of a giant story hiding there in La Barge and it's all about burgers. Click here for the story. It's been on our list of places to go for several years now.
And lastly, Idaho's top burger place is in Coeur D'Lene. We were up there for a statewide volunteer conference in February and walked right past the place and didn't go in! It looked so incredibly non-descript that we feared it would be just another Greasy Spoon serving up the same rubbery Sysco frozen burger patties. It all goes to tell you can't tell a book by its cover or a burger joint by it's appearance.
Congrats to Diablo Burger--it's an honor you can savor forever!
Cheers, jp
My wife and I were in Flagstaff 10-4/10-8. We sampled "Diablo Burger". Its a little hard to find, if you go to the town square you'll see it. The burger patties are thick and delicious. The meat is top-notch quality. It would taste good just eating the patty by itself! My wife and I split the "Blake" and fries. It was just the right amount of food splitting it in half. The fact that its served on an english muffin is good because you're tasting the meat and condiments and not all the bread that's in a regular bun.
ReplyDeleteja, das diablo burger restaurant geschrift ist zer gut geEssen. Ich liebe dich, Yonny
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As I said on your other blog, it is AMAZING. Me, who usually takes half of their meal home, ate the ENTIRE burger and basket of fries. The best fries and fresh, unusual ingredients, like Chevre cheese and sundried tomatoes.
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ReplyDeleteOkay Yonny. So, I didn't leave a previous message here but some kinda karma is going on. I've been up at the GC for 4 days and then came back to your "hunt for duetch diablo man". It wasn't me! But then my wife says to me tonight - do we have anything to eat for dinner? "Nope". So she says, Let's go to DB? Hmmm. Haven't been there for 9 months - sure. And we get there and there's this line out the door. It ain't warm outside tonight you know. But we waited 15 minutes to order and then another 30 minutes for the food to come. I guess this place ain't for the locals anymore.
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