
Menuism recently did a blog post on 5 Meatless Burgers Worth Trying, the beast one from five types inlcuding soy, hazelnut, mushroom, tempeh, and combination. Milwaukee restaurants were called out for two of them: The Comet Cafe and The Eatery on Farwell.
The Comet Cafe was named for Hazelnut Burger - a delicious vegan version of its “Big Luck Burger,” with lettuce, pickles, red onion, tomato, and vegan thousand island dressing.
The Eatery on Farwell was named for Mushroom Burger - the “Ratatouille Burger” consists of a grilled Portobello stuffed with roasted veggies and topped with vegan mozzarella cheese and garlic aioli.
To get even one on the list would be pretty good, but we had two out of only five in a contest I would thought dominated by the East and West coasts, but once again we see that Milwaukee and the Middle Coast should never be underestimated. Both also made this list of 11 Best Veggie Burgers by VegNews.
One category they missed was bean burgers, black bean burgers are especially common usually with a southwestern or Mexican flavor profile. To me that has always seemed a god way to approach the whole 'replacement' thing. Instead of trying to duplicate the original recipe, you can give a nod to its flavor and format while branching out. The Eatery's 'burger' is another good example of that, they embraced the mushroom thing and bypassed the standard ketchup, etc. toppings of a standard burger with ones that go with mushrooms. Even Comet's uses thousand island dressing instead of ketchup.
One nice thing with meatless burgers is that once on the bun with the condiments, they look like any other burger.
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