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It is Burger Week in Detroit!



My visit to Greene's Burgers corner of Orchard Lake and 10 mile Farmington MI


You have probalby heard that Royal Oak is losing the Blackfin Pub  which means no more expensive Angus Beef  Burger with Blue Cheese . Burgz is gone, Baggger Daves just folded in Bloomfield Hills, Hogans is gone , and that means ists shake out time. Downtown office people have the food trucks & Shake Shack is around. Rumor has it that the really good burgers are holding onto thier customer base only when they are prices about 10 $ and under. The sliver dollar sized burgers at Greenes cost oly 2.50 and make Hunter House Burgers in Birmingham look heavy handed- they are greasier and land like the grease bombs they are- but if you do not need to soak up beer or kill the munchies- the taste of the burger is Important. .
Burger Week is July 30 to August 5th in 2018. With a new American pub burger at 45 Grand River that is worth the trip, and plenty of  reasonably priced burgers in Wayne Oakland and Macomb counties  a hungry person should  avoid all the chain burgers and spend only $5 a burger, hopping from joint to joint (as to burn those calories...)

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