Have you ever had a fried onion burger? If you’re an Oklahoman, you likely have, but if you’re from somewhere else and are reading this, you may not have even heard of fried onion burgers. Fried onion ...

On a recent Monday, I biked to the Leavitt Street Inn & Tavern in Bucktown to find the place already packed to the gills at the geriatric hour of 5 p.m. We’d all descended for the same thing: burgers ...

Homemade Oklahoma Fried Onion Cheeseburgers with Cheddar - Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock When times were tight and every penny mattered, cooks at the Hamburger Inn in El Reno, Oklahoma figured out how ...

El Reno’s onion burger dates back to the Great Depression—and still draws food lovers today. During the Great Depression, restaurant owners in beef-loving Oklahoma faced rising ingredient costs that ...