Johnny's Hamburgers

Johnny's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers

Johnny's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers, or simply, "Johnny's Hamburgers", is an eatery located in Scarborough, Toronto, at Victoria Park and Sheppard Ave. It is locally famous for its charcoal broiled hamburgers which are considered one of the city's two bests, famous for its economical prices, and infamous for its choice of glaring orange and white checkers decor and its choice to not serve lettuce.

The burgers comes in a brown paper bags and are served on a cardboard tray. There is no seating inside other than the bench where people wait for their number to be called up. Outside there are old wooden picnic tables.

Comedian Mike Myers has endorsed the eatery several times during interviews as being a childhood favourite, having grown up in Scarborough, Ontario. The spot was combined with the Canadian coffee and donut chain Tim Hortons to create Stan Mikita's, a fictional hangout appearing in Myers' famous Wayne's World movies.[1]

However, the REAL Johnnie's Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers is located in Oklahoma. Johnnie originally was a cook for the Split-T restaurant, and ventured out to start his own restaurant. Johnnie's became much more popular than the Split-T, and eventually put the Split-T out of business. Today, Johnnie's has eight locations in three different cities (Oklahoma City, Norman, and Edmond).

External links

• Profile by Toronto.com
• Best Burgers, January 2007, Toronto Life review.
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