Pete's Hamburgers is a seasonal walk-up hamburger stand in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

The walk-up stand Pete's Hamburgers operates in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. It is open Friday through Sunday from April through October.^[1][2][3]

Pete's serves a hamburger that is poached in shallow water with thinly sliced onions that are poached along with the burgers.^[1] Burgers are served with or without cooked or raw onions and condiments; cheese is not offered as a topping.^[2] The 'Paul Gokey' burger includes cooked and raw onions, horseradish, and ketchup.^[2]

The stand was started in 1909 by Pete Gokey, who owned a food cart he took to local events.^[1] He served burgers, and in order to keep burgers not immediately sold from drying out while he kept them warm on the flattop would add water to the flattop; customers returning for a second burger remarked that the second -- watered -- burger was better than the first, and Gokey started poaching the burgers.^[2] Eventually he opened a stand at the intersection of Blackhawk Avenue and Beaumont Road in Prairie du Chien.^[4] The stand goes through approximately one ton of onions in a season.^[2]

George Motz wrote, "It's nowhere near a major city and is a destination burger stand if there ever was one."^[1] The Minneapolis Star-Tribune said it was "worth the drive to Wisconsin".^[5]