Squeeze Inn in Napa

Not Your Typical Napa Experience!

People don't visit Napa to eat at shopping centers.

But Don and I did just that. I read about Squeeze Inn and wanted to give it a try.  

Heaters and Art

We arrived early before the lunch rush. Along one wall, there was a lineup of tables. There were also a few outdoor heaters. Hmm?

There were lots of burger and beer and sport related posters. Charlie Chaplin didn't quite fit in.

The Counter and Grill  

The only customer, was seated at the counter having a beer. 

There were lots of available stools and lots of available catsup bottles!

Squeezeburger with Cheese

We ordered at the end of the counter.

It was the Squeezeburger we'd heard about. But I figured we also needed to try a deep fried hotdog, while we were being incredibly unhealthy.

​Eye on the Grill

The lone customer finished his beer and was suddenly on his way.  

Yay! We moved up to the counter and enjoyed the show. Nothing quite like watching a cook, when they really know what they're doing at the grill.

Making a Squeezeburger

​So we watched the guy toss a pile of cheddar onto the grill. The burger then landed on top.  

Then he covered the burger with the metal hood, while he fried up my hotdog. I think the bun was heated on top of the hood actually. ??
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Voila!

And this is how it looked! 

We took our tray of decadence and headed for the patio.

Yum!

This is our lunch feast and I am not ashamed. Don's burger had the perfect "cheese skirt".

My fried hotdog was healthy, because it had tomatoes and pickles.

How to Eat?

In these photos, you can see even better how ridiculous our meal was.
Don actually cut away at the cheese skirt. I tried to wrap some of the cheese around some of our fries. Interesting.

My hotdog was surprisingly tasty. I've never had tomatoes on a hotdog and I've never had a fried dog. So how did we do? We sampled each others and secretly threw away over half. It was good! We just stopped before we were miserable.

A Question for This Guy

Before leaving, we headed back inside to let our cook know that we enjoyed our first Squeezburger Experience. Then I had to ask.

"I read that your ceiling is covered with toothpicks." I asked him why I didn't see any. He laughed and said they had issues with the fire marshal and that little tradition of shooting toothpicks through a straw, into the ceiling had to end.

Oh well, we sampled our first Squeezeburger. Good enough!
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