By Mark Schadenberg
Sometimes a publication like Reader’s Digest will put its pens where our appetite is.
Check out the Food section on www.readersdigest.ca and you’ll see a list of the supposed top eight burger places in Canada. Three on the list of the elite eight are in Ontario including the highway bbq pit known as Webers (www.webers.com) in the Orillia area.
Take it from someone who lived in Muskoka more than 20 years ago, Webers on Highway 11 has more than earned its reputation as a worthwhile stop on a sojourn northward.
The Reader’s Digest columnists of Sue Campbell and Jen McMorran, summarize Weber’s, by saying: “Opened in 1963, Weber’s is such a well-established Ontario burger institution that it was featured in Molson’s ‘I am Canadian’ television commercial. And though it is somewhat off the beaten track on Highway 11, they added their own pedestrian bridge to help folks cross the road safely to get there. Line-ups are a given, but the fare is well worth the wait, as is the experience of watching the “key man” at work expertly flipping up to 800 charcoal grilled burgers an hour as he has been doing for over 49 years! Their patties are also for sale through Loblaws.”
In Woodstock, I saw the box of Weber’s burgs available at No Frills.
The bridge over Highway 11 has been there for as long as I know, so that traffic going south could stop for a meal without having to walk across a four-lane roadway.
I was there in August
Just this past August, my wife and I made a trek to Muskoka, which included a day at Santa's Village for Maeghan and Spencer, a stop in Port Carling to look at a lock, junkets to Huntsville and Gravenhurst, and burgers and fries from Webers. Was it worth the stop? Certainly !
As for the magazine online story, check out the RD introduction: “Extra greasy or über healthy, creative gourmet with scads of cool toppings, or just a plain classic cheeseburger… the sky’s the limit when it comes to the possibilities between the buns. Grab some fries, don't forget the ketchup and bring extra napkins for Canada’s best hamburger restaurants.”
Not quite riveting journalism from Reader’s Digest, which by the way I recently sent a proposal to as a resume to write a full-length feature on the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships in London. I never heard back from the RD folks, so I guess I should have penned a piece panning pan pizza from various brick ovens.
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