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First bite: Beefy burgers at Lefty’s Burger Shack in University Place earns my approval

Sue Kidd — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:58:10 +0000

Look out Pick Quick, you have some competition.

That Fife drive-in burger stand long has been my go-to fast food burger of choice. Burgers with a from-scratch edict that extends to delicious hand-cut fries is the lure. But I always have had one quibble: The burger patty is too small.

Now enters the quarter-pound, juicy, meaty burgers at Lefty’s Burger Shack, opened July 23 by first-time restaurant owner Pam Hubert in a partially vacant University Place shopping center in need of crowds. And the crowds did come. Like the lines at Pick Quick, the 20-minute wait is worth …

Hey, look. Lefty’s Burger Shack in University Place is open. The line is out the door.

Sue Kidd — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:58:28 +0000

On opening day of Lefty’s Burger Shack last Saturday, she ran out of food. She ran out of food Sunday, too. On Monday, she served 450 burgers. Four hundred fifty burgers. In tiny restaurant terms, that’s like an indie band selling out the Tacoma Dome – small fish, big numbers. The line? Out the door.

“It was just insane,” said Pam Hubert, who has opened Lefty’s Burger Shack in University Place in a funky building with a cool history of burger lore. It was once home to Dairy Queen and Dairy Dell. News Tribune archives hint that Arctic Circle once …

Lefty’s Burger Shack coming to University Place

Sue Kidd — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:23:49 +0000

For six months, Pam Hubert has told curious passersby that she’ll be opening Lefty’s Burger Shack in “two weeks.”

This time, she means it.

The University Place burger restaurant has been Hubert’s working dream for two years, and all she needs now is health department approval to open. She expects that will come this week or next. The burger restaurant will serve hand-formed burgers, hot dogs and something that sounds genius in theory: “frings,” which are combination orders of fries and onion rings.

Hubert, a first-time restaurant owner who has lived on Day Island for 15 years, …