Event Detail

Cheeseburger Week 2025

Sunday, February 23, 2025 at All week event

Cost: Varies

Sponsor: Pasadena Restaurant Week

For more information call: 626-795-3355

Or click here: https://www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com/

Let’s all enjoy a cheeseburgers (or lots of cheeseburgers) throughout Pasadena and salute Lionel Sternberger for his mastery, insight, pioneering innovation and daring in placing a piece of cheese atop a hamburger for the first time in recorded culinary history at his father's roadside stand, the Rite Spot at 1500 West Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. Stop by to see the plaque honoring Lionel's culinary achievement. Click here to take the Cheeseburger Challenge. The invention of the cheeseburger at the Rite Spot has been documented by the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, cheese-burger.net, Hamburger Heaven:the Illustrated History of the Hamburger and The San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Even CNN is on the story: Click here to see Casey Wian’s CNN story on Cheeseburger Week 2012. The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce hosts the eighth Cheeseburger Week (February 23rd to March 1st, 2025) and Cheeseburger Challenge. (Voting in the Cheeseburger Challenge starts February 23rd). Once again, you’ll be able to vote for your favorites in a number of categories, from traditional lunch counter burgers to white table cloth an alternative cheeseburgers. "We’ll also have an alternative cheeseburger category or two, as well." Plan to come to Pasadena for a Cheeseburger Crawl, take the Cheeseburger Challenge and celebrate Lionel Sternberger’s culinary legacy in the city where the cheeseburger was first served.