Jason Rooney
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Hammond Golf and Country Club
Stellar food, stellar service. Perhaps the best pizza and burgers in the Ottawa area.
The pizza is up there with the best in the city. Well fermented dough, perfect char for that deep flavour, and delightfully chewy. The toppings are fantastic and creative, but a good dough and a hot oven can truly transform a pizza into something superb.
The burger though. The burger. Easily the best I’ve had in the city. I got the duck confit burger, and while the duck and cheese curd topping was a nice treat, the burger patty was absolutely the star of the show. Wonderful crust, nice and pink on the inside (you can ask for it well done if desired), great protein/fat content (70/30 apparently), perfectly seasoned, and very loosely packed. They grind their own brisket to make the patties. What you’re left with is the beefiest, juiciest, most tender burger in the city. The rest of the toppings and the bun were of course great, especially those house made pickles. My recommendation: start with a plain burger or maybe a bacon cheeseburger; let the meat speak for itself. They could have served this patty on wonderbread with nothing else and I’d still probably declare this the best burger in or around Ottawa.
Oh, and we were almost out of gas and couldn’t make it to the nearest gas station and they saved us by topping us off before we hit the road. Thank you so much for getting us out of that pickle. :)
The pizza is up there with the best in the city. Well fermented dough, perfect char for that deep flavour, and delightfully chewy. The toppings are fantastic and creative, but a good dough and a hot oven can truly transform a pizza into something superb.
The burger though. The burger. Easily the best I’ve had in the city. I got the duck confit burger, and while the duck and cheese curd topping was a nice treat, the burger patty was absolutely the star of the show. Wonderful crust, nice and pink on the inside (you can ask for it well done if desired), great protein/fat content (70/30 apparently), perfectly seasoned, and very loosely packed. They grind their own brisket to make the patties. What you’re left with is the beefiest, juiciest, most tender burger in the city. The rest of the toppings and the bun were of course great, especially those house made pickles. My recommendation: start with a plain burger or maybe a bacon cheeseburger; let the meat speak for itself. They could have served this patty on wonderbread with nothing else and I’d still probably declare this the best burger in or around Ottawa.
Oh, and we were almost out of gas and couldn’t make it to the nearest gas station and they saved us by topping us off before we hit the road. Thank you so much for getting us out of that pickle. :)