1987 Cheeseburger
$13.95Half-pound hand-pressed beef, aged cheddar, griddled sweet onion, house sauce, toasted brioche. The recipe that opened the doors.
For nearly four decades, Sherwood's has served the kind of American cooking that doesn't chase trends — hand-pressed burgers, slow-roasted classics, buttermilk pancakes, and pies rolled by hand each morning before sunrise.
In the spring of 1987, Margaret and Walter Sherwood flipped the sign to "Open" on a small corner lot on Maple Street. They had one fryer, one griddle, and a recipe for pot roast that Walter's mother had scribbled on the back of a feed-store receipt in 1953.
Thirty-eight years later, the griddle has been replaced twice, but the recipe book hasn't changed. Our burgers are still hand-pressed each morning. Our pies are still rolled by hand before the sun comes up. Our waitresses still call you "honey" — not because it's a brand voice, but because that's who they are.
We don't chase concepts. We cook the food we grew up on, the way we grew up eating it. The kind of plate that doesn't need a caption underneath it.
Margaret's original recipe — a half-pound of fresh-ground chuck, hand-pressed to order, seared on a 500° flat-top until the edges turn lacey and crisp. Aged Vermont cheddar, sweet onion griddled in the same pan, house sauce on a toasted brioche bun baked two blocks away.
We've served more than two million of them. The recipe hasn't moved an inch.
Nothing pre-made, nothing microwaved. If you order it, we cook it. That's the deal.
Beef from Halpern's, produce from the Saturday market, bread from the bakery two blocks down.
Forty-two pies a week, by hand, before the rest of the world wakes up. Five rotating flavors.
Three generations behind the counter. Margaret still picks the pie menu every Monday.
"Walked in for coffee, stayed for the pie. The pecan ruined me for every other pecan pie in the state."
"My grandfather brought me here in 1992. I brought my grandson here last Tuesday. Same burger. Same taste. Same honey at the register."
"There are restaurants that cook trends, and there are restaurants that cook dinner. Sherwood's cooks dinner. That's the whole review."
(555) 014-2287
Free lot behind the building, enter off Sixth Street. Street parking on Maple after 6pm.
Parties of any size welcome. For groups of six or more, give us a call so we can set the table right. We hold reservations 15 minutes past your time.