Is your mouth watering yet? Photo: Courtesy of The Tavern at the Heathman Hotel
Prepare to get the meat sweats: Portland Mercury's "Burger Week" makes its delicious return today, featuring more than 100 local participating restaurants — the most in its 12-year history.
Best bites: It's the one week of the year where diners ask themselves: Has burger innovation gone too far? And the answer is always no.
Take for example the Tavern's "diabolical burger": flame-grilled beef is topped with a deep-fried onion ring, slathered with tomato jam and a secret spicy sauce, then smashed between an English muffin.
Dimo's Italian Specialities features a deeply decadent burger rubbed with Porcini and served in a provolone-fontina fonduta.
Vegans and vegetarians: There's stuff for you, too.
