![]() ![]() The menu offers a nice selection of burgers along with soup, salad and some seafood options like fried oysters and crab cakes. I don’t know how they do it, but their service is fast and the food is fresh. Some days they cook up over 200 burger baskets on just a 24×24 inch grill and one deep fryer! ![]() What’s particularly remarkable to me is the amount of food they produce within such a small kitchen. When the doors of Travis’ new place opened in 2013 the crowds poured in and business has continued as word of his gourmet burgers spread throughout the South Sound and beyond. (I hope our presence didn’t have anything to do with the fire!) It was the location of the former Le Bistro that burned down in 2010 and just so happens to be the place of our very first restaurant meal ever when Todd and I were dating. Though commercial real estate is extremely limited, especially along the waterfront, two years ago Travis relocated to historic downtown Gig Harbor to a bigger, though still small, place on Harborview Drive across from the water. And if you’ve tried his burgers you’ll understand why. He opened his doors with the expectation of flipping maybe 50 burgers a day but soon found himself flipping four times that amount. The owner, Travis Hightower, worked as a chef at some private golf courses before opening his first burger shop in 2010, serving upscale burgers in a tiny hole-in-the-wall off a roadside on the Key Peninsula. The Gourmet Burger Shop was recently rated by the Tacoma News Tribune as having the best cheeseburger in Pierce County and they were one of the top two for best milkshake, fries and onion rings. Other touches that stand out are the locally made hamburger buns baked fresh daily, aged Tillamook cheddar, quality gorgonzola and the thickest-cut bacon you’ve ever seen on a burger. The meat has a better texture and flavor and is accompanied by fresh ingredients like thick-cut crisp tomatoes and a variety of leafy greens. The moment we took our first bite it was evident that these burgers are made with quality ingredients. In a culture where advertising isn’t always what it seems and the pictures don’t always reflect what you get, in this case they really did get it right: These burgers are gourmet.
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