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New burger restaurants on the way – DeLong’s Deluxe in Lakewood and Shake Shake Shake in Stadium

Sue Kidd — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:13:21 +0000

February is shaping up to be the month of the burger for South Sound diners. Two retro-style burger restaurants plan February openings – DeLong’s Deluxe in Lakewood and Shake Shake Shake in the Stadium neighborhood. Additionally, here’s good news for Pick-Quick fans: The Fife burger restaurant reopens Friday from its annual two-month winter hiatus. Also at the end of this blog post, I have an update about Jubilee – a Lincoln neighborhood burger restaurant that closed in November and has been rumored as reopening. I’ve also got an update for diners on the Gourmet Burger Shop – the restaurant’s move …

My top five South Sound burger stands, walk-ups and drive-ins

Sue Kidd — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:29:53 +0000

I’ve given the obligatory test run of Five Guys Burgers and Fries – the first South Sound stores of the national chain opened in Lakewood last week and in Puyallup in November. I realized as I was eating at Five Guys that I had not collectively written much about our home-grown burger stands since my burger-stand manifesto in 2009. So I hit the pavement and revisited some of my favorites, along with two new burger stands you may not yet know. Click “read more” to see my top five South Sound burger stand picks.

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Pick-Quick Auburn: Shiny, new and nice, but not the same burger drive-in

Sue Kidd — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:35:38 +0000

Hey Pick-Quick fans, have you ventured to Auburn yet to sample the freshly opened Drive-In burger restaurant? It opened a week ago Tuesday.

I stopped in and found a restaurant that was shiny new and with a 1950s sensibility that seemed 21st century designed. A walk-in dining room with high ceilings, big windows to watch the burger crew at work, a sign advertising sustainability, and separate cans for garbage and composting made me think: Burgerville meets In-N-Out.

Is this the Pick-Quick locals have visited since 1949 on Pacific Highway in Fife? Nope. But it …

Burger lust: Pick-Quick in Fife returns from winter hiatus. Next up: Pick-Quick II in Auburn.

Sue Kidd — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:54:42 +0000

Yesterday was the perfect day for surprisingly unseasonable al fresco dining, so I fled the newsroom and beat it to Pick-Quick Drive-In, which has reopened from the winter hiatus that the walk-up burger drive-in takes every December-January. The sun was shining, the crowds were mingling. The burgers still are top notch.

What’s not to adore about Pick-Quick? The restaurant has been flipping burgers on Pacific Highway since 1949. It’s one of the region’s oldest restaurants.

And here’s something you’ll want to know: Pick-Quick is opening a second location in Auburn this month. I’ll be sure to keep …