Heyday

Juicy beef pockets, crispy edges, and gooey cheesy ravines.

The Heyday Smash

An Anatomy of Great Smash Burger Patties

(In short, great smash burger patties are broken, irregularly shaped, thin, thicker, crispy, and juicy all at the same time.)

The Components of Great Smash Burger Patties

1. Lacy Edges: at bare minimum, a good smash burger patty will have some lacy edges or at least some irregularly shaped crispy edges.

2. American cheese: a good smash burger needs cheese to bind it broken parts. A very good smash burger has American cheese, which gives the perfect balance between cheesy goodness and non-dominating flavor, while also providing great melt to bind the broken pieces of your patties.

3. Broken patties and Isolated Islands: real smash burgers’ patties are broken and split into multiple pieces, otherwise it’s just “smooshed”. Truly smashed patties have many juicy islands and peaks and valleys, all with crispy edges.

4. Lips: great smash patties have one or two lips (thick edges left behind where the patty is not get completely smashed). These thick juicy pockets provide the perfect balance to the other crispy, lacy edges. (So called smash burger experts will tell you not to leave any lips on your patties. They are flat out wrong.)

5. 70/30 fat: the best smash burgers avoid the more common 80/20 ground beef, which is too lean. The only way to get crispy but juicy smashed patties is to use a fattier ground beef.

6. Make it a Double: the very best smash burgers have two stacked patties. Why? Because great ones are so smashed, so irregularly shaped, with so very thin lacy sides, and such thicker juicier sides, and and so held together with cheese, that at least two layers of burger patty are needed to make any sense of it at all. A single well-smashed burger just doesn’t work well.

7. Spatula Made: numbers 1, 2, 5, and 6 from above are possible with the regular dedicated “burger smashers” you’ll find at other smash burger joints. But to actually smash up burger patties in such a way that your left with broken patties and juicy pockets and thick juicy lips on some edges, you’re going to need a couple of heavy duty spatulas, some practice, and elbow grease.

Does beef tallow really make a difference when it comes to frying? Absolutely, with no doubt.

Our Beef Tallow = a stable, not rancid frying medium that provides superior flavor and better crisp and doesn’t oxidize at frying temperatures for longer periods of time.

Their Seed Oil = an unstable, rancid frying medium that imparts an oily off flavor and texture that oxidizes quickly at frying temperatures.

Only found at Heyday, fries and tots (and chicken and fish) fried in beef tallow are the best choice for the best quality.

We invite you to visit our burger stand in to see for yourself, as we guarantee we have the best fries in town.

And check out our $200 “Best Fries in Town” on our website at www.heyday.menu for a chance to prove us wrong.

Wendy Thomas is in the house today to promote the Sunday Special: the Senior Bacon Cheeseburger

6 oz double smash, bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and Duke’s mayo

***** ALSO *****

New Special, Today Only

“The Mixed Bag” $8

a basket of fries AND tots,
served on a tray in a paper bag

Today’s Sunday Special: The Animal House Burger

Our house burger in the style of In-N-Out’s “Animal Style”

Mustard cooked 6 oz double smash with cheese, pickle, lettuce, grilled onion, special sauce, and optional tomato.

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Today Only

Special New Years Hours

12–4:30 PM

Stop by and try The Animal House Burger

Now showing at Heyday!

Come check us out for yourself and meet the man behind the iron smash. With over 70,000 smashed patties under his belt, we guarantee you’ll enjoy one of best damn burgers you’ve ever imagined.

Visit .cincy where the food is consistently great and always getting better.

Tallow fried tots are way better.

There’s a reason we have the best fries in town.

Ours are distinctly crisp on the outside, pillowy in the middle, and and flavorful and clean tasting because we fry them exclusively in beef tallow.

Tallow is what makes the fries in Belgium the “world’s best”, it’s what made McDonald’s fries America’s best (before they changed to vegetable oil in 1989), and it’s what makes our own the very best in Cincinnati.

For starters, tallow, unlike vegetable oil, remains stable and unoxidized even at high heat, and it does not go rancid on the shelf during storage - so it dries hot, clean, and crisp.

Plus, tallow has a delicious beefy un-oily flavor that simply cannot be matched by vegetable oils.

Simply put, beef tallow fries are superior in every way - flavor, texture, and structure.

Come give them a try at Heyday, home of the best fries in town.

The El Rancho Rankin Game Day Special.

Double Smash w/ cheddar, grilled jalapeños, bacon crisps, and barbecue sauce.

All day, Pre-During-Post Game from 12-9

There’s a reason we have the best smash burgers in town.

We don’t make run-of-the-mill smash burgers like everyone else, where your burger is either too dry and overly flat or not smashed into irregular broken shapes at all.

Every single day and night, we are the same two guys that have smashed tens of thousands of beef balls into burger perfection by constantly adapting our technique to the ever changing conditions of our grill and our meat throughout the day.

At Heyday, where smashing burgers isn’t a just trend but a way of life, our patties consist of many irregular shapes with crispy edges, surrounding juicy pockets of -bleh beef.

Come give us a try at Heyday, home of the best smashed burgers in town.

The Game Day Special: The House Deluxe

6 oz double smash with cheese, lettuce, pickle, onion, special sauce and brown tomato.

Say hello to Mike, the newest member of our culinary team. A serious man, who showed up with his own knife on his first day, we’re confident he’s going to fit right in.

From 12-4 on Sunday (10/29), we be closed to the public for a private event.

Doors reopen at 4 PM

If cheese isn’t holding your “smash burger” together, it ain’t being done right.

To smash, by definition after all, is to break into a pieces.

Come try the difference!

You’re invited to our 1st Annual Purcell Marian Homecoming Tailgate this Friday!

Co-hosted by , we’ll be offering $3 cans of Common Ale and Oktoberfest.

Join us for good times and prizes and food specials outside Heyday under the West Side tent, and show your support for and the historic neighborhood of

We’ll be giving away gift basket, free koozies, gift cards and more!

Plus, we’ll be revealing the new alumni chosen name of the fundraiser burger for (Purcell Marian Athletics).

Come tailgate with us this Friday, Sept 29th from 4-7:30 PM

Almost all smash burgers are run-of-the-mill alike because they are made with dedicated burger smashers that result in overly dry and overly uniform burger patties.

On the other hand, the best smash burgers can only be made with free-handed spatulas, giving total control and resulting in irregular patties with many crispy, lacy edges surrounding juicy pockets of beef.

So next time you want a great smash burger, ask to see if it’s spatula made.

Order before the game, during the game or after the game.

The Late Summer Classic: 6 oz double smash with cheese, pickle, onion, lettuce, and vine-ripened, homegrown tomatoes.

Who Dey!

The Late Summer Classic - $8 Sunday Special

6 oz double smash with cheese and vine-ripened, homegrown tomatoes, lettuce, pickle, onion, and special sauce

At $8, our Sunday Special made with 6 oz of premium beef, cheese, bacon bits, pickled onion, lettuce, pickle, mayo and ketchup is the best deal in town.

Happy National Chili Dog Day!

That’s right! If you participated in last week but did not get the chance to visit us, just come in any day this week, show us your burger week app, and we will make you one free order of our deserve-to-be world famous fries.

Here are the conditions:

The “free order of fries for people who show us the Cincy Burger Week App” means one free order of fries IN ADDITION to the rest of your order.

Let’s say you order carryout online and your order is “One house combo with fries, and another order of fries.” And then you come in to collect your food and show us your burger week app, your ass is getting 3 orders of fries. The two you bought, and the we are giving you for free.

Free French Fries from Tuesday; July 18- Sunday, July 23.

If there were a prize for “Best Big Ass, No Bull, No Gimmicks, No Tricks, Premium Beef Burger for only $7” at … we’d have it in the bag.

Only $7 all week for !!!

With so many people saying we have the best fries they’ve ever had, it’s time to start looking into things.

We are celebrating fathers everywhere by giving away a free order of fries to dad’s who show proof of fatherhood.

All Weekend Long! Just show up, show us your shoes, and we’ll make you an order of of our ridiculously hood French fries (or tots if you are older than 60).

Must be wearing white dad’s gym shoes (see list of applicable models) or brown orthopedic sandals.

-List of Eligible Dad Shoes-

Nike Air Monarch 4
New Balance 608 V5
Avia Quick Step Wide’s
Fila Disrupter
Adidas Ozweego
Hoka One One Clifton 8
Yeezy Boost 700 ‘Wave Runner”
Gucci Rhyton
Nike Air Jordan 1 Low
Brown orthopedic sandals