Some luxury restaurants in America's biggest cities are offering burgers with ingredients so premium they're limiting the number they sell at a time.The burger at Bar Avoja in Los Angeles is made with a prime brisket patty, Tillamook cheddar, dill pickles, onion fonduta and herb rémoulade on a brioche bun, Food & Wine reported.It costs $38, and only 20 burgers are offered each Thursday.Eddie Sanchez, known by his Instagram handle @hungrinla, posted a video of himself eating the exclusive menu item and called it "one of L.A.'s most legendary burgers."FAST-FOOD GIANT DETHRONED AS CUSTOMER STUDY CROWNS AMERICA'S NEW FAVORITE RESTAURANT CHAINChef Evan Funke created the burger for another restaurant in 2010, according to Food & Wine."For years, it lived on as one of those 'you had to be there' bites that L.A.
food people never stopped talking about," Sanchez wrote.Upscale restaurants in America's major cities offer high-end burger creations that are served at select times and in limited quantities.(iStock)Funke's creation, Sanchez wrote, predated the "smashburger wave of the 2020s, back when burgers were big, bold and unapologetically gourmet." The hype is real, Sanchez added.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES"I'm not trying to do a supreme drop or anything like that," Funke told Food & Wine.
"It's honestly just constrained by the output of the kitchen."Kitchen constraints are the reason James Beard Award-winning chef Tony Messina said his Boston restaurant, Common Craft, only serves 35 of its black-pepper cheeseburgers each night."We put a cap on how many we have every night just because ...the labor involved in making this burger is gruesome."The menu states that the burger is made with house-ground chuck, brisket, marrow, flank, Vermont cheddar, special sauce, house pickles and a house-made bun. It costs $28, and there's an option to add house bacon for $4, a fried egg for $4 or foie gras for $19.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER"W...