Burger Hut

Use to LOVE this place. Anymore the food cost more and tastes horrible! The service is just as badI won’t be returning anytime soon BLAH!

Can’t believe there are only 3 reviews for Burger Hut! This is what Butler is known for… the burgers, the hots, the gravy on the French fries. It don’t get no better than this. If you find yourself in Butler and you don’t go here, you are Missing Out!

The Burger Hut downtown is a small, whole in the wall with great, greasy, delicious food. My personal favorites are the pancakes, fries with gravy, and their breakfast sandwiches. This is stick to your rib kinda food so if that’s your style, you’ll love this place!

I remember as a kid eating here with my dad walking down Main St. and have always enjoyed the food. Still to this day the food hasn’t changed, and I hope it never will.

Great Place to have some American food while you are in downtown Butler. Well worth the price, and the fries are great!

The Burger Hut is a quirky and colorful downtown Butler dining institution that serves handpacked, grilled to order burgers and that Western PA carb-lover’s favorite — french fries with your choice of gravy or chili. While there are other items on the menu, I suggest you stick with the burgers and fries if you want to partake in the true flavor of this place. And only visit the tiny downtown location, as the larger free-​standing building out at the Point is completely devoid of the character that makes this place unique amongst roadside joints in Western PA.
Recommended burger options include the Sharpie (made with sharp cheddar) — which I recommend be ordered with chili — and the monumental double-​decker Dagwood cheeseburger with onion, lettuce and tomato. Get a full order or half order of french fries with light brown gravy or a Coney Island style chili sauce. Those who still mourn the loss of the Hot Dog Shoppe downtown should go here to feed their jones for saucy fries! In fact, I always though they were better here at the Hut.
The atmosphere is that of a quasi-​historic, distinctly retro lunch counter. The blue-​tile exterior (shown in the picture above) gave way a few years back to a non-​distinct red brick façade. But the dining area is mostly unchanged and remains tiny with a U-​shaped counter offering no more than a dozen seats and a small seating area for 3 – 4 persons by the window facing directly out onto the sidewalk (definitely not a place for the shy eater).
While I haven’t been there for a few years, the counter seats were routinely inhabited by some of the oddest and colorful characters that downtown Butler has to offer, lured there in part by bottomless cups of coffee and a revolving door of variable patrons whom they could ogle and/​or mumble at incoherently. But the thing I miss the most about the Hut is the old-​school counter attendants with the bouffant hardos who used to shout the orders back to the kitchen in a dinerese dialect. Back when this place was open 24 hours, we used to come in after a long night of carousing and give those poor ladies a heckuva hard time. But they always took good care of us and the food always stuck to my ribs.
Just remember: This is more than just food — it’s a small town dining adventure!