{"id":1972,"date":"2012-05-23T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/2012\/05\/recent-lunch-at-becks-prime-made-me-2.html"},"modified":"2015-03-14T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T19:11:55","slug":"recent-lunch-at-becks-prime-made-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/2012\/05\/recent-lunch-at-becks-prime-made-me","title":{"rendered":"Who Started Houston's Gourmet Burger Craze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent lunch at Beck's Prime made me wonder: &nbsp;Who started the whole gourmet burger trend in Houston? &nbsp;Beck's has been my benchmark gourmet burger for years; they opened their first store in 1985.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rWtP3f_qT40\/T7wxy6BXuxI\/AAAAAAAABDw\/VovyXFp6asg\/s1600\/becks-burger-bacon.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/becks-burger-bacon.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You, pretty burger, are responsible for all this.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nBefore that, I remember burgers from Prince's Drive-In and Bellaire Broiler Burger, but while good, they aren't the same sort of burgers that Beck's. &nbsp;Same goes for Rosnovsky's and Someburger. &nbsp;Been around forever, but they serve fast food-style burgers, albeit very good ones.<\/p>\n<p>An astute Twitterer, Jennifer King,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennifer_king\/statuses\/205089675965235200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembered<\/a>&nbsp;that Cafe Express started around the same time period, but while they do serve burgers, I don't think they're in the same class as Beck's.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the Twitterati, Joey,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_m713\/statuses\/205093735170703360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminded us<\/a> about Annie's on South Post Oak. &nbsp;I'm a fan, but I wouldn't consider them to offer a high-end experience.<\/p>\n<p>So I'll put it to the experts here: &nbsp;Who started the gourmet burger craze in Houston?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent lunch at Beck's Prime made me wonder: &nbsp;Who started the whole gourmet burger trend in Houston? &nbsp;Beck's has been my benchmark gourmet burger for years; they opened their first store in 1985. You, pretty burger, are responsible for all this. Before that, I remember burgers from Prince's Drive-In and Bellaire Broiler Burger, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[122],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htownchowdown.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}