Louis' Lunch in New Haven

Louis' Lunch has an amazing history. Louis Lassen, a butter dealer, started a lunch wagon on Meadow Street in 1890. During this time Louis Lassen was serving steak and ground steak sandwiches made from scrap trimmings to local factory workers. One day in 1900 a local businessman needed lunch to go in a hurry so he headed to New Haven to visit Louis' Lunch Wagon.

Louis' Lassen, the established business owner of Luis' Lunch, hurriedly made a broiled hamburger between two slices of bread and sent the customer on his way, which is considered the very first hamburger ever served. In 1907 Louis Lassen moved his small town lunch business to Temple and George streets. After he spent a decade there he left his lunch wagon for a square-shaped little brick building that had once been a tannery. After this point Louis' Lunch then moved to its fourth and present location on 263 Crown Street in New Haven, CT.

As far as today's modern times go, Louis' Lunch is a very well loved place to dine and have fun at. At Louis' Lunch they flame broil the hamburgers which is considered the most original way to do it. To get the hamburger to its flame broiled perfection Louis' Lunch uses vertical cast iron gas stoves manufactured by the Bridge and Beach company. These are very good for cooking hamburgers as they are vertical stoves which use hinged steel wire gridirons to hold the hamburgers in place while they cook simultaneously on both sides to perfection.