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Stoopid Burger

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Stoopid Burger
Interior of the restaurant at the Lloyd Center, 2025
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Restaurant information
Established2014 (2014)
LocationPortland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
Coordinates45°31′57″N 122°39′14″W / 45.5325°N 122.6540°W / 45.5325; -122.6540
Websitestoopidburger.net

Stoopid Burger is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. The business started as a food cart in 2014. It operated in a brick and mortar space from 2017 to 2020. Following a closure, Stoopid Burger re-opened in the Lloyd Center in the city's Lloyd District in 2025.

Description

The restaurant Stoopid Burger, originally a food cart, now operates in the Lloyd Center, a shopping mall in the northeast Portland of the Lloyd District. The menu includes hamburgers, onion rings, shrimp po'boys, and a purple-colored drink called Stoopid Juice.[1] The Stoopid Burger has beef patties, bacon, ham, a hot link, cheddar cheese, and an egg.[2] The Ignorant Burger has three patties, steak, bacon, a hot link, ham, chutney, blue and cheddar cheese, an egg, mushrooms, grilled onions, and jalapeños.[3] The Smart Burger is a veggie burger.[4] The Wicked Burger has peanut butter and a chutney made from habanero, mango, and pineapple.[5][6] The restaurant has also served chicken tenders, fish and chips,[7] mozzarella sticks,[8] hot dogs, and desserts.[9] It uses its signature "Stoopid sauce".[10]

History

Stoopid Burger was co-owned by John Hunt and Danny Moore.[11] The business launched as a food cart in 2014,[12] operating on North Vancouver. Stoopid Burger began operating in a brick and mortar space in 2017.[1][2][13]

The Daily Meal said the Ignorant Burger was the "most outrageous restaurant dish" in a 2018 list of the "best food and drink in Oregon for 2019" and included the burger in a 2019 overview of the nation's most expensive burgers.[3][14] Stoopid Burger was among several restaurants used as filming locations for the 2019 music video for "Adobo" by Swiggle Mandela.[15]

In January 2020, the owners announced plans to part ways and close in February.[16][17][18] The restaurant closed on February 2; Willamette Week called the closure "sudden" and "surprising".[19][20] In early 2025, Moore re-opened Stoopid Burger in the Lloyd Center, in the space previously occupied by the diner Billy Heartbeats.[21][22]

Michael Symon visited Stoopid Burger for an episode (season 4, episode 18) of the Food Network series Burgers, Brew & 'Que.[23]

Reception

Stoopid Burger was included in Thrillist's 2016 list of Portland's eleven best burgers.[24] The business won the People's Choice vote for the city's best burger in The Oregonian's readers' poll in 2016.[25] In 2020, the newspaper's Michael Russell called Stoopid Burger "beloved"[26] and "one of the best-known black-owned food businesses" in Portland.[17] The restaurant's Stoopid Burger was included in a 2017 list of the city's sixteen best "classic" burgers.[4] Meghan McCarron of Eater said the business was "one of the city's most prominent black-owned restaurants" in 2019.[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Stoopid Burger Leaves You Dazed, Meat-Drunk and Dumbfounded. It Is Wonderful". Willamette Week. 2018-02-01. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  2. ^ a b Bamman, Mattie John (2017-11-17). "Stoopid Burger Puts the Patties to the Griddle in New Brick and Mortar". Eater Portland. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  3. ^ a b Myers, Dan (2019-05-14). "America's Most Expensive Burgers". Daily Meal. Archived from the original on 2025-04-29. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  4. ^ a b "The 16 Best Classic Burgers in Portland". Willamette Week. 2017-03-01. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  5. ^ "Stoopid Burger". Willamette Week. 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  6. ^ "Stoopid Burger is closing for good". KATU. 2020-01-28. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  7. ^ "Portland's Best Burger Cart Just Went Brick-and Mortar". Willamette Week. 2017-11-16. Archived from the original on 2025-03-16. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  8. ^ Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2018-08-22). "Where to Eat or Drink for Support Black-Owned Restaurant Week". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  9. ^ Dall'Asen, Nicola (2017-10-05). "Stoopid Burger". Thrillist. Archived from the original on 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  10. ^ Killingsworth, Silvia (2020). The Best American Food Writing 2020. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-358-34458-2.
  11. ^ "Stoopid Burger owners hope to inspire young men to choose a different path". KATU. 2018-03-27. Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  12. ^ "'I'm one of the ones that made it out': Success story behind co-owner of Stoopid Burger". kgw.com. 2019-04-30. Archived from the original on 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  13. ^ Russell, Michael (2017-12-01). "Popular Portland burger cart opens first restaurant". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2025-01-29. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  14. ^ "The Best Food And Drink In Oregon For 2019". The Daily Meal. 2018-12-20. Archived from the original on 2024-09-12. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  15. ^ Moore, Jenni. "The Latest in Portland Hip-Hop". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  16. ^ Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2020-01-27). "Nationally Noteworthy Burger Bar Stoopid Burger Will Close Sunday". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2025-01-29. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  17. ^ a b Russell, Michael (2020-01-27). "Stoopid Burger, once voted Portland's best burger, will close after service Sunday". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  18. ^ "Stoopid Burger Is Closing This Weekend, but a New Venture From One of Its Former Owners Is Coming This Spring". Willamette Week. 2020-01-31. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  19. ^ Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2020-02-04). "Southwest Portland Vietnamese Restaurant Anchoi Has Closed". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2024-02-24. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  20. ^ "A Former Co-Owner of Stoopid Burger is Opening a New Food Cart Next Week". Willamette Week. 2020-03-11. Archived from the original on 2025-07-23. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  21. ^ Swindler, Samantha (2025-07-25). "How Portland's 'ghost mall' became the city's coolest startup incubator". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  22. ^ Swindler, Samantha (2025-06-19). "Portland's last Orange Julius is closing after 42 years at Lloyd Center". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2025-07-06. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  23. ^ "Family Feast". Food Network. Archived from the original on 2024-04-14. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  24. ^ "The 11 Best Burgers in Portland, Ranked by Our National Burger Critic". Thrillist. 2016-07-27. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  25. ^ Jepsen, Sue (2016-06-09). "Stoopid Burger wins People's Choice vote for Portland's best burger". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2025-05-11. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
  26. ^ Russell, Michael (2020-09-11). "Portland's 10 best new food carts of 2020". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
  27. ^ McCarron, Meghan (2019-06-05). "Whatever Happened to Portland?". Eater. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
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