Hopdoddy to open first location soon in Nichols Hills Plaza

Hopdoddy Burger Bar opens its first Oklahoma City location on July 16. [Image via Instagram.com/hopdoddy]

Hopdoddy Burger Bar, 1125 NW 63 St., opens its first of two planned locations on July 16 in Nichols Hills Plaza, and when it does local burger purveyors will have no choice to take notice.

Chain concepts always put the market on notice, but rarely for food quality. The challenges for a chain sustaining high-quality technical practices are many, but Hopdoddy appears to have found a way to replicate artisan burgers.

Born in 2010, the concept specializes in burgers made completely from scratch and craft beer. Farm-raised beef is butchered and ground in house and buns are baked from small-batch dough in house.

I never pass the one on South Congress in Austin when there isn't a line stretching out the door.