Stoopid Burger
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 Interior of the restaurant at the Lloyd Center, 2025 | |
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| Established | 2014 |
| Location | Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°31′57″N 122°39′14″W / 45.5325°N 122.6540°W |
| Website | stoopidburger |
Stoopid Burger is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. The business started as a food cart in 2014. It operated in a brick and mortar space from 2017 to 2020. Following a closure, Stoopid Burger re-opened in the Lloyd Center in the city's Lloyd District in 2025.
The restaurant Stoopid Burger, originally a food cart, now operates in the Lloyd Center, a shopping mall in the northeast Portland of the Lloyd District. The menu includes hamburgers, onion rings, shrimp po'boys, and a purple-colored drink called Stoopid Juice.[1] The Stoopid Burger has beef patties, bacon, ham, a hot link, cheddar cheese, and an egg.[2] The Ignorant Burger has three patties, steak, bacon, a hot link, ham, chutney, blue and cheddar cheese, an egg, mushrooms, grilled onions, and jalapeños.[3] The Smart Burger is a veggie burger.[4] The Wicked Burger has peanut butter and a chutney made from habanero, mango, and pineapple.[5][6] The restaurant has also served chicken tenders, fish and chips,[7] mozzarella sticks,[8] hot dogs, and desserts.[9] It uses its signature "Stoopid sauce".[10]
History
Stoopid Burger was co-owned by John Hunt and Danny Moore.[11] The business launched as a food cart in 2014,[12] operating on North Vancouver. Stoopid Burger began operating in a brick and mortar space in 2017.[1][2][13]
The Daily Meal said the Ignorant Burger was the "most outrageous restaurant dish" in a 2018 list of the "best food and drink in Oregon for 2019" and included the burger in a 2019 overview of the nation's most expensive burgers.[3][14] Stoopid Burger was among several restaurants used as filming locations for the 2019 music video for "Adobo" by Swiggle Mandela.[15]
In January 2020, the owners announced plans to part ways and close in February.[16][17][18] The restaurant closed on February 2; Willamette Week called the closure "sudden" and "surprising".[19][20] In early 2025, Moore re-opened Stoopid Burger in the Lloyd Center, in the space previously occupied by the diner Billy Heartbeats.[21][22]
Michael Symon visited Stoopid Burger for an episode (season 4, episode 18) of the Food Network series Burgers, Brew & 'Que.[23]
Reception
Stoopid Burger was included in Thrillist's 2016 list of Portland's eleven best burgers.[24] The business won the People's Choice vote for the city's best burger in The Oregonian's readers' poll in 2016.[25] In 2020, the newspaper's Michael Russell called Stoopid Burger "beloved"[26] and "one of the best-known black-owned food businesses" in Portland.[17] The restaurant's Stoopid Burger was included in a 2017 list of the city's sixteen best "classic" burgers.[4] Meghan McCarron of Eater said the business was "one of the city's most prominent black-owned restaurants" in 2019.[27]
