Posted by steve, a resident of East Palo Alto, on Aug 1, 2009 at 6:24 pm

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Posted by SteveU, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Aug 2, 2009 at 10:54 am
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Typo in article?

The Angus beef patties from Nebraska and Montana can be ordered in third-pound ($6.95), quarter-pound ($8.95) or full pound for ($12.50).

Last time I looked a 1/3 pound (5.34 oz) was larger than a 1/4 pound (4 oz).

Posted by Eric Seiden, a resident of another community, on Nov 2, 2009 at 4:13 pm

I was so happy to see a mention of Hippo Burger. I've added a link to this post from my blog. Here's the post:

Web Link

I've got a link to a menu picture even :)

Posted by RRassendyll, a resident of another community, on Apr 19, 2011 at 9:34 am

The >nearby< Hippo was in Menlo Park; I remember it as spotless and perfect and quite fortunately not-industrial chic. This sounds like a late-Xer trying to be a player.

Posted by Bob Carswell, a resident of Menlo Park, on Jul 8, 2012 at 8:41 pm

I am a Toronto, Canada resident. In the mid-70s I spent a week with my now ex-wife in San Francisco. We arrived at the Holiday Inn on Van Ness and moved out the next day. We found the Holiday Lodge with the great palm trees and swimming pool with a private entrance to the Hippoburger next door which catered to the patrons of the Lodge. It had to be one of my most favourite accommodations spots in the world, so much so, that I recreated it in the e-book science-fiction mystery I wrote under Robert Anthony Carswell titled "Visionquest." The first 90,000 words were written in 1989 on an old selectric typewriter. I retyped it into my computer and added another 30,000 words or so around 2010. My daughter said she was riveted to it and did not want to put it down. It is available on Kindle. Now the Hippoburger will be remembered for a long time....at least we hope so! They even advertised a burger for cannibals, the homosapien burger, I think it was at something like 163 or 178 dollars and some coins. The details escape me but I often wondered if there were a lot of one armed cooks in the kitchen as a result of it. <smile> What a great place it was for a tourist....something I have remembered for 37 years as if it was yesterday. Glad you mentioned it, I keep checking the Internet for stories about it. Too bad it is gone. If I ever get back, I will have to find this newer version and taste its delights.