Full bar, casual mood, easy rear parking. How about a few cheers and hearty birthday congratulations for Hamburger Hamlet. Our local Hamburger Hamlet, now 40 years old in Palm Springs, holds court on Palm Canyon with inside dining for more than 200 and plenty of table space for comfortable, mist-cooled dining out front, on the largest sip and dine terrace in all Palm Springs, an ideal location for people watching.
Portions tend to be distinctly generous here, incidentally.
Served any time, a dozen thick, juicy, charbroiled hamburgers, most 6 ounces, lettuce, pickle, tomato and onion, fries or cole slaw. Reservations for parties of eight or, except for week-end nights in season, just stop by. Novelist Maureen Daly has been a restaurant critic for The Desert Sun since the late 1980s. Her reviews appear weekly. The Desert Sun.