Ellis
Ellis
Place Sainte Catherine 41000 Brussels
Belgium
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ellisgourmetburger.com
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In history books we can read that a large number of European immigrants entered the ‘promised land’ of America via Ellis Island in NY, and without any doubt they brought along the hamburger.
On 5 March 1889 a newspaper in the American town of Walla Walla (Washington) came out with the term hamburger, a word that since then has become globally synonymous with fast food. The name refers to the recipe German immigrants brought with them to the United States but the history of the hamburger goes in fact much further back than that.
It is said that in the beginning of the 13thcentury, the soldiers of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan used to put raw meat under their saddles and that the movement of the horse’s back tenderised the meat. When his grandson Kublai Khan conquered Moscow, he took this culinary custom with him.
The Russians called it ‘Steak Tartare’ after the name they gave to the Mongols and soon enough Russian cooks added onions and eggs to give the meat a richer flavour. Thanks to trade with Russian towns, the dish made its way to the German harbour city of Hamburg, where it was named “Hamburg steak”.
In much the same way, but this time through emigration, the meat dish found its way across the Atlantic Ocean Because smoked and salted meat can be kept longer, a variant of this Hamburg steak became popular on the ocean-faring ships that transported the immigrants to America. It became a standard meal eaten raw or cooked and it was served in the poorer travel classes on the ocean steamers.
So it happened that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, eateries in the port of New York advertised “Hamburg-style steak” in the hope of winning over the newly arrived German emigrants as customers.
According to insiders it was Louis Lunch in New Haven, who, in around 1900, served a hamburger between two slices of toast to a customer who was in a bit of a hurry and that was when the hamburger was born as the comfort food we know today.
Historians are not 100% in agreement about the exact birthplace of the hamburger. However, for the sake of convenience, we consider Louis Lunch as the pilgrimage destination for real hamburger addicts.
The American hamburger has become one of the most well-known comfort foods in the world today. Renowned chefs continue to pit their wits (probably more than ever before) to come up with unbelievably adventurous culinary interpretations of this great dish.
Our aim with "Ellis Gourmet Burger" is to dedicate a whole restaurant to this one dish. We want to join forces with our clients in the quest for the very best ever collection of recipes and variants of the burger.
With this restaurant concept we complete the circle! Actually you could say that after years of wandering the globe, the burger has finally come back home to the continent where it originated, right in the heart of Europe.
On 5 March 1889 a newspaper in the American town of Walla Walla (Washington) came out with the term hamburger, a word that since then has become globally synonymous with fast food. The name refers to the recipe German immigrants brought with them to the United States but the history of the hamburger goes in fact much further back than that.
It is said that in the beginning of the 13thcentury, the soldiers of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan used to put raw meat under their saddles and that the movement of the horse’s back tenderised the meat. When his grandson Kublai Khan conquered Moscow, he took this culinary custom with him.
The Russians called it ‘Steak Tartare’ after the name they gave to the Mongols and soon enough Russian cooks added onions and eggs to give the meat a richer flavour. Thanks to trade with Russian towns, the dish made its way to the German harbour city of Hamburg, where it was named “Hamburg steak”.
In much the same way, but this time through emigration, the meat dish found its way across the Atlantic Ocean Because smoked and salted meat can be kept longer, a variant of this Hamburg steak became popular on the ocean-faring ships that transported the immigrants to America. It became a standard meal eaten raw or cooked and it was served in the poorer travel classes on the ocean steamers.
So it happened that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, eateries in the port of New York advertised “Hamburg-style steak” in the hope of winning over the newly arrived German emigrants as customers.
According to insiders it was Louis Lunch in New Haven, who, in around 1900, served a hamburger between two slices of toast to a customer who was in a bit of a hurry and that was when the hamburger was born as the comfort food we know today.
Historians are not 100% in agreement about the exact birthplace of the hamburger. However, for the sake of convenience, we consider Louis Lunch as the pilgrimage destination for real hamburger addicts.
The American hamburger has become one of the most well-known comfort foods in the world today. Renowned chefs continue to pit their wits (probably more than ever before) to come up with unbelievably adventurous culinary interpretations of this great dish.
Our aim with "Ellis Gourmet Burger" is to dedicate a whole restaurant to this one dish. We want to join forces with our clients in the quest for the very best ever collection of recipes and variants of the burger.
With this restaurant concept we complete the circle! Actually you could say that after years of wandering the globe, the burger has finally come back home to the continent where it originated, right in the heart of Europe.
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