{"id":9423,"date":"2013-07-13T12:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2013-07-13T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:54:05","slug":"algonquin-il-dantes-burgers-red-hots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9423","title":{"rendered":"Algonquin, IL – Dante’s Burgers & Red Hots"},"content":{"rendered":"

(From 2014 on, no more burgers or dogs. \u00a0This is now a Mexican restaurant).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Been meaning to get out to Dante’s<\/a>, but it’s a trek from the city. Rumor has it, rumor has it (Mrs. BDB’s favorite song) that Dante’s has the best fries in the NW burbs. You’ll get no argument from me on that. The small order was more than I could finish.<\/p>\n

The “Merkt’s Cheese” Burger is popular in the Chicago burbs. \u00a0It involves slathering a gob of Merkt’s Cheddar Cheese Spread on the patty, and is usually topped by grilled onions. \u00a0Merkt’s is made in Southern Wisconsin, comes in a variety of flavors<\/a>, and is the cheese spread all others aspire to live up to. \u00a0It’s 100% real cheese, and full of flavor.<\/p>\n

I went with mine plain, wanting to enjoy the combination flavors of the meat and cheese spread. \u00a0I wasn’t disappointed. \u00a0The hand-formed burger, with smokey grilled flavor and appropriate grill marks, did not disappoint. \u00a0The tang of the sharp cheddar was a perfect compliment.<\/p>\n

The bun had some egg in it, but didn’t lean towards “sweet” as many egg breads do. \u00a0It’s incredibly soft while being sturdy enough to hold the sandwich and fixins’.<\/p>\n

Is Dante’s worth a drive? \u00a0We say yes. \u00a0Add the fact that they have Vienna Beef hot dogs, and it’s worth two trips.<\/p>\n

\"Dante's<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dante's<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(From 2014 on, no more burgers or dogs. \u00a0This is now a Mexican restaurant). Been meaning to get out to Dante’s, but it’s a trek from the city. Rumor has it, rumor has it (Mrs. BDB’s favorite song) that Dante’s has the best fries in the NW burbs. You’ll get no argument from me on… Continue reading Algonquin, IL – Dante’s Burgers & Red Hots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[921,937,939,2252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}