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Burger Monger
By Margaret Word Burnside and Aaron R. Fodiman
At Burger Monger, each burger or other selection is made fresh to
order using the options you have selected to create your favorite taste
combination.
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shakes with premium allnatural
ice creams and custards.
There are six standard options:
cookies and cream, chocolate
fudge, Snickers supreme,
vanilla, caramel crave and strawberry,
but be on the lookout for additional flavors
often added as specials.
We like to finish up with a cup or two of
their freshly baked chocolate chip cookies,
which are perfect for sharing. And the $5
burgers offered every Monday include
more than 20 free toppings to make them
a “best buy” for everyone. 9
EDITOR’S NOTE: There are five Burger
Monger locations –– 3838 W. Neptune St.
in South Tampa, (813) 254-0290; 1656 Bruce
B. Downs Blvd. in Wesley Chapel, (813)
991-4242; 2454 McMullen Booth Road in
Clearwater, (727) 726-4001; 1325 Fourth St.
N. in St. Petersburg, (727) 592-4206; and
10412 N. Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa’s
Carrollwood area, (813) 968-6860.
Burger Monger Restaurants
have continued to receive
the “Best Hamburgers”
award in our magazine’s
annual “Best Of” competition
for the last five or six years. It should be
no surprise –– they use high quality
ingredients and have many options to
create your own personal burger in
addition to their house recipe burgers.
What you may not realize is that besides
their 1/3-pound blend of fresh ground
chuck and sirloin burgers, they also offer
a 1/4-pound all-beef grilled hot dog; a
grilled, balsamic marinated whole
Portobello mushroom cap; an Impossible
Burger, which is a vegan, plant-based
impostor; and chicken breasts that can be
ordered grilled or buttermilk dipped,
breaded and deep fried.
You can order any of these to your exact
specifications from a long list of selections
ranging from avocado to Monger sauce,
or you can have one of their eight special
recipe creations such as the jalapeño snap
burger with melted pepper jack, grilled
onions, sriracha mayo, lettuce and sliced
jalapeños, or the bacon chili cheeseburger
with beef chili, chopped bacon, grilled
onions, cheddar jack and Fritos corn chips.
We are addicted to the steakhouse ranch
salad of lettuce, applewood smoked bacon,
chopped tomatoes and onions, which is
topped with a deep fried, hand battered
onion ring and your choice of blue cheese
crumbles or shredded cheddar jack, served
with either a fresh homemade peppercorn
ranch dressing or a balsamic vinaigrette. If
you are not up to this, there is also a small
side salad, or you can add chicken or beef
to your steakhouse ranch salad.
Their natural-cut French fries, sweet
potato waffle fries and hand battered onion
rings are super, as is their cup of all-beef
chili. They also offer incredible handspun
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