Olive Burger Week is a thing now

For one week, Greater Lansing will celebrate what may be its signature dish: the olive burger. 

Afterward, there are 51 weeks, each with 7 days … 517???

Anyhow, January is a tough month for restaurants. That’s especially true when it’s brutally cold outside, which is a good reason to celebrate a uniquely Michigan burger. 

Sponsored by Lansing Foodies and Lansing 5:01, more than two-dozen local restaurants will offer up their own takes on the olive burger. There will even be several olive-less or mayo-less specials along the way. 

The event is designed to bring patrons out to local restaurants for something exciting, whether that’s the breakfast olive burger at Bangos, Good Truckin’s spinach-and-olive-topped Popeye burger (veggie patty available), the charcuterie deconstructions at Graze Craze or the olive burger pizzas (Sleepwalker Spirits and Ale, Slice by Saddleback and Art’s Pub).

Visit oliveburgercapital.com for the full list of participating eateries and to find out more about Lansing’s heritage as the olive burger capital. (Managing editor’s note: the Olive Burger Week organizers claim to have documentation, and we here at City Pulse decided to not press the issue.)