Sure Shot Burger
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- Nick Jarvis
- Will Kuhns
- Aaron Wilcenski
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| Location | 5013 Northeast 42nd Avenue, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 97218, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°33′33″N 122°37′14″W / 45.5592°N 122.6206°W |
| Website | sureshotburger |
Sure Shot Burger, formerly known as Rough Draft Burger Shop, is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Sure Shot Burger operates in the parking lot of Oaksire Brewing's beer hall, in northeast Portland's Concordia neighborhood at the border of Cully.[1][2] Among burgers is the "double", which is the restaurant's most popular and includes two patties, cheese, onion, pickle, and a house sauce.[3] The menu also includes Brussels sprouts,[2] fried cauliflower,[4] waffle fries, "broccoli supreme",[5] and beer.[6][7] Sure Shot has also served a hot dog hamburger.[8]
History
The restaurant was spun-off from the Seattle-based pop-up Rough Draft Burger Shop,[9] which was "itself a spinoff from a fancy ticketed dinner and event series".[10][11][12][13] In 2020, White Center-based Good Day Donuts worked with Rough Draft to serve smash burgers on glazed raised doughnuts.[14] Rough Draft was slated to open in Lower Queen Anne in the summer of 2021.[15]
In Portland, Rough Draft operated in a red-colored food cart at Uptown Beer in southwest Portland,[16][17][18] and later rebranded to Sure Shot Burger and operated outside Oakshire Brewing. Nick Jarvis, Will Kuhns,[19] and Aaron Wilcenski have been chefs.[20]
Reception
In 2020, writers (including Karen Brooks and Bill Oakley) ranked Rough Draft's single cheeseburger third in Portland Monthly's list of the city's twenty best cheeseburgers.[21] Oakley also said Rough Draft had some of his favorite burgers in his 2021 "guide to dining" in Portland.[22] Wyatt Fossett of the Daily Hive said the burgers "are so deliciously dynamite that we will forever rave about the punchy flavor and lack of complication".[23]
Naomi Tomky included Rough Draft in Thrillist's 2021 list of the fourteen best burger establishments in Seattle.[9] Michael Russell ranked Rough Draft second in The Oregonian's list of Portland's thirteen best smash burgers.[20] Sure Shot ranked first in the best burgers category of the newspaper's Readers Choice Awards in 2024.[24]
In 2023, Jashayla Pettigrew included Sure Shot in KOIN's list of the city's seven best smash burgers, based on Yelp reviews,[2] and Axios Portland included the restaurant in an overview of Portland's best burgers.[4] In Eater Portland's 2024 overview of the city's "best, beefiest" burgers, writers said: "Sure Shot is a burger shack in every sense of the word. The burgers here are simple, but hover near smash-patty perfection." They also said of the double burger, "As a whole, it has all of the trappings of a fast food burger, if a fast food burger was even richer, cheesier, and had twice the amount of caramelization."[3]
