Burger Ritual

Delicious crispy smash. A solid addition to Portland’s burger scene. Only critique would be $7 for like 12 fries. They’re not bad it just doesn’t feel substantial for the price. You can get more fries at neighbor carts for $8 or $9. Crispy Brussels sprouts were fantastic and a huge portion. Also, shoutout to whoever did the branding. The menu and illustrations are fantastic.

I loved this burger, perfect smash burger and great bun. Also loved the fries! We got them with the seasoning and it was so weird but tasty, kind of like curry flavor? Really good and different. The fried pickles were also good and weird, not what you’d expect! They were covered in dill, which I like. When I go back I’ll get the burger and fries again, they were cooked to perfection.

The workers were nice but the burger was Burnt i know it's a smash burger but didn't know.It will be that burnt and didn't notice till I got home or else I would have returned it and asked for another burger. Also tried reaching out to email they put on here and it shows it dosent exist all I wanted was for ritual burger instead of paying me back for them to pay it to someone else that could use a warm meal

Delish double smash with a buttery crisp sesame bun, house-made pickles, and perfectly cooked waffle fries. Loved.

Excellent smash burger. If I were to rank a few, Burger Ritual would be a strong contender for 1st with Champs well seated in that spot. BR beats monster smash, and mid city. Add the bacon for even MORE crunch in addition to the patties edge. I enjoyed the waffle fries, and the slaw however I feel like all of that together made the slaw feel too salty. I wanted a LITTLE sweet reprieve, but no, she’s a savory slaw. Excellent crunch on that, too! The fry sauce, not memorable, would have to try again to see if it stands out at all.

really really good burgers! good waffle fries and fried pickles, too, but really phenomenal burgers 🤤 there was a sign advertising a Friday morning "mcmuffin" menu item that I think I'm now planning my week around trying...

Disappointing. Leaving bad reviews for local businesses is extremely difficult for me. As I work in two industries with online reviews. However, after a 10 minute walk home and fighting the urge to vomit, I’m leaving an authentic review of my experience. We arrived at 9:48pm. Looked over the menu, ordered at 9:55pm. There was another order immediately after ours. Somehow they received and finished eating before we received ours. We finally got our order at 10:30pm. I am not usually one to care about that. That’s just like rotten eggs in an already bad cake. The food was subpar. I’ve patroned many smash burger establishments here in Portland. This was not a smash burger. The lemonade was watered down and the fries were frozen fries that could’ve used another minute of cooking. I have to wonder if the bad service was because I didn’t tip on my card. I tipped 20% cash, which is always my preference because I have worked in tip industries since 1996. I’ll tip for bad service and not complain if the food is good. This wasn’t it. $54 on my card plus cash tip and I’m unsatisfied along with overwhelming nausea. I’m very sad to leave this review.

Burger was just okay, fries was not good at all you can tell it’s minimum cooked frozen fries. The cashier person was friendly but the other guys were not friendly at all zero smiles. I work in this industry and it’s really not that hard to at least smile and say hello to the customers. I would have tipped just minimum if I knew. Won’t come back again sadly.

I would like to give this food cart a 50% rating on the basis of having had one really good smashburger there, and then a second one that was TERRIBLE. I honestly can't go that high, because the quality of the bad one was SO BAD that I can hardly believe that good one ever existed. So I give Burger Ritual a zero for having produced an inedible, horrible tasting smashburger, the worst hamburger I've ever tasted in my entire life. The first one I had was juicy, delicious beef with wonderfully crispy browned edges. My only complaint was that it was so juicy the bun was almost soggy with juices. The second smashburger LOOKED better. The bun was intact, not soggy, so I was encouraged. Then I raised it to my mouth and got a whiff of a nasty "fishy" smell from the meat. Hmm, that was off-putting. Then I bit down on a relative unjuicy slab of SALTBURGER. Now I have always been accused of liberally salting my food, but this was incredible. I actually opened up the burger to see if there was a middle layer between the 2 beef patties - one made entirely of salt. I swallowed the first bite, but the second one - nope. Had to spit it out. The rest of the burgerwent in the trash. My partner had the same reaction. Too bad because that first experience was a good one, and we were excited to add Burger Ritual to our list of takeout sources. If we'd been there at the food cart, we would've asked for a refund, but the drive is too much trouble. Better luck to you. Hope you get the smashburger, not the saltburger if you give Burger Ritual a try.