Yesterday the Foobooz Burger Cruise for the First Person Festival set sail and it sure was fun. Thanks to First Person Arts for approaching me for the tour and to everyone who came out. It was an awesome time.

A synopsis follows with notes about the burgers and beer.

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Wynnewood’s Elevation Burger will be giving “Stick It to Ohio State Fries” to anyone showing Penn State gear or presenting a PSU transcript or pay stub between now  and November 7th. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

If you thought the burger craze of the summer was over you are sadly mistaken. The Bite looks into how it’s continuing this fall and doesn’t even get into the $7.17 Kobe beef burger at Union Trust or 500°, the burger shop by the Rouge owners that is planned for Sansom Street.

Want to enjoy some of Center City Philadelphia’s favorite burgers, then check out the Foobooz Burger Cruise this Tuesday. We’re hitting up Barclay Prime, Good Dog, Noble: American Cookery and Pub & Kitchen. Get your tickets here.

This fall, there are buns in every oven [Metro Philadelphia]
Rouge opening a burger shop [The Insider]

The most expensive burger in town has been the Whiskey King at Jose Garces’ Village Whiskey but starting next Wednesday, you’ll be able to pay more for the World F*cking Champion burger at P.Y.T.

In time for game one of the World Series Tommy Up will be debuting an 8 ounce venison patty topped with foie gras and served with sweet potato chips and a sparkler for $25.

In other P.Y.T. related news, Mac & Cheese gives a run down on the veggie and boozy options at the Northern Liberties burger lounge.

PYT [Mac & Cheese]
Tommy Up [Twitter]
P.Y.T. [Official Site]

Foobooz is hosting a Burger Cruise on Tuesday, November 3rd as part of the First Person Arts Festival.

Yours truly will be leading the tour to sample some of Center City Philadelphia’s best burgers.

Finalized bites and drinks are from Good Dog, Pub & Kitchen, Noble: American Cookery and Barclay Prime.

Tickets are $45 for First Person Arts members and $50 for the general public until October 25th. After that, prices go up $5.

And no worries about World Series conflicts, November 3rd is an off day.

Edible World: Foobooz Burger Cruise – Tuesday, November 3 [First Person Arts]

This week inPhiladelphia Magazine’s Restuarant Club Newsletter.

• Our Better Burger Guide
  20 creations that will keep you chomping until you’ve tried them all.
• First Bite: The New New New New Marigold Kitchen
  Now, Marigold is under new ownership. Can it be successfully reinvented again?
• Ticket Giveaway Alert!
  Interested in having dinner with the all-star Borgata chefs Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, and Michael Schulson?

Restaurant Club Newsletter [Philadelphia Magazine]

It’s a comprehensive comparison of New York’s/Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack and Philadelphia’s/Stephen Starr’s SquareBurger on Always Hungry NY.

AlwaysInvestigating: Burger Square-Off, Phily vs. New York [Always Hungry NY via The Illadelph]

Philadelphia Weekly delivers the shake, boon and drag of eating at P.Y.T., SquareBurger and Elevation Burger.

Burger Smackdown [Philadelphia Weekly]

Drew Lazor checks out Elevation Burger, the environmentally friendly burger chain that has opened its first local location in Wynnewood. Here’s hoping he took the train.

Single-source, organic, free-range, grass-fed beef is the restaurant’s biggest point of pride, so I tried it in the signature Elevation Burger, a double patty layered with cheddar and your choice of toppers (I picked lettuce, tomato pickles and a zingy balsamic mustard, but there’s also stuff like caramelized onions, hot pepper relish and the tomato-based “Elevation Sauce”). The burger’s lean ground-in-house meat was round in natural beef flavor, but my patties tasted slightly dry — likely a result of their across-the-board cook-to-well policy. I easily squished the bun into submission, and it didn’t draw attention away from the main meat attraction, the way a good burger bun should.

Get Lifted [City Paper]
Elevation Burger [Official Site]

Village Whiskey has been open a week now and there’s been a lot of discussion of the $24 Whiskey King burger but none of that talk has been in the form of a Haiku. We fix that now!

An Exemplary

Juicy Bomb of a Burger

Hail The Whiskey King

Village Whiskey [Official Site]