Merry Burger Week to all! And to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, I stopped by restaurants participating in the annual Memphis Flyer event to take photos of merrymakers who ordered the $6.99 burger specials. That’s about half the price of what a burger sells for before and after the (hamburger) holidays at many places.
I ran into photographer Keith Renard at Belly Acres on Poplar. I didn’t know this at the time, but, after I talked to him, I realized Renard could be the Flyer’s Burger Week poster boy.
This was on Thursday, June 21st. He says he had the Burger Week special the night before at Pimento’s Kitchen & Market. The burger has “sautéed pepper,” Renard says. “It was good.”
He also liked the Belly Acres burger. “The crispness of the fried green tomato on it was pretty amazing.”
Renard is going to Burger Week restaurants — every day. Friday, he was going to Loflin Yard, Saturday, Tops Bar-B-Que, Sunday; Huey’s, Grill Grabz food truck on Monday; and Tenero Cafe & Butcher and maybe Farm Burger Memphis on Tuesday.
That’s a lot of hamburgers. “Listen. I’ll eat fish and chicken the rest of the year.”
Renard, who has participated in Burger Week for three years, says, “I like to see what people do differently with burgers. Plus, it’s for a good cause.” Burger Week benefits Memphis Tilth.
Here are photos from my visits to Burger Week restaurants. I’ll be visiting more places and posting more photos later. (And where are the women Burger Week fans? We want to see you, too.)
