Don’t doxx yourself please
Seattle has a chain called Dick’s. Their burgers are tasty and cheap. A couple of Deluxes after a night out really hits the spot.
It was during a trip to Norway. I was in Stavanger, walking around with my friend. It was noon. We stumbled across a hamburger stand on the street next to a monument or something.
The burger (with no side dish) was quite expensive for street food (about $20), but we realized it was not made with beef or pork. It was reindeer meet.
And also the best fucking burger I’ve ever had.
It was a burger I ate when the chef was going to kill us all.
Did you eat the whole thing or get some of it in a doggy bag to go?
I really liked that movie, but it feels impossible to convince anyone to watch, lol.
London, UK: Burger & Beyond, Bleecker Burger (RIP the Bleecker black), maybe Patty & Bun
North West, UK: Almost Famous, maybe Burgerism
What I fancy ordering from these places varies based on mood, but they’re good enough there’s pretty much no bad choices
There’s nothing else in the same category I’ve had in this country so far, but open to suggestions.
Not knowing it was plant-based, I got a monstrous jumbo something-or-other burger from Monty’s Good Burger in LA.
Honestly I almost freaked out at how good it was, and even went back to the place just to tell them it was the best burger I ever had.
It’s the one thing pulling me west
Father’s Office in Santa Monica. You get it one way, no changes. If you want ketchup on it, F Off. Heck, if you want ketchup for your sweet potato fries (the seasoning on them is delightful), F Off again. But, and I say this after trying a million burgers (slight exaggeration), no contest.
That said, somebody commented with a burger in West LA that I’ll be shortlisting.
It’s a tie for me.
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A place where they served only the bun and meat, and you got to serve yourself your own salad and sauces. I made some absurdly tall burgers. The taste was phenomenal too. Very handy place when I was a student with very little money.
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Playing a gig in a small town. Saw a burger called The Carnivore. Was assured it was worth the cost, so I bought one. This thing had mince patty, bacon, sausage, steak, chop (pork or lamb, can’t remember which), then cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato, egg… and I’m probably still forgetting something it had. It was monstrous. It took me almost an hour to eat it, and I enjoyed every minute.
If your #1 is in San Jose, CA, I’d be willing to bet it was “juicy burger”. Still to this day, I’ve never had a better fast food burger.
Not San Jose, and not Juicy Burger. It was a small franchise that went broke.
Depending on your age, maybe Burger Chef and Jeff? Some nonsense I’ve heard my parents talk about, been out of business for a bit.
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Casino El Camino in Austin TX has some amazing burgers. Total dive bar, but worth it for the food.
I’m not sure if this technically qualifies as a ‘burger’, but I’d say…
Waffle House Texas Cheese Steak Melt, but with mushrooms instead of onions.
Mushroom and Swiss burger from Worthy Burger, South Royalton, Vermont.
I also like my standard 5 Guys order: bacon cheese burger, grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, BBQ sauce.
https://www.mussel-burger-bar.com/ Louisville, KY
The C.E.O. and Argentinean are my favorites.
It was at a country club in a small town I used to work in. It was called “The Cowboy”, and it was one of the best burgers I’ve ever had. It was pretty sizable and it had bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and cheese.
About a decade ago at a job in Philly, we’d hunt down the spOt Burger cart (that’s how they capitalized it). Tiny little trailer/cart only big enough for one person to stand in, and this guy would park it somewhere new around center city/university city area every day. My memory is a little hazy so I might have some details wrong, but every day he’d grind a blend of ribeye and filet fresh to make the burgers in his cart, cooked around a medium, and served them on a brioche bun with pickled red cabbage and some other fixings. He got the fat content just perfect with the steak blend, and the toppings were unexpected but incredible together.
I haven’t been back in awhile but I heard he was opening a brick and mortar restaurant because his cart was so successful. Hope it’s true!
Sometimes I can get the grill at home (local meat) to offer me up one that would never compare to a restaurant
This is where I’m at. With a cast iron pan and a decent stovetop it’s very easy to make a proper smashburger at home.
I also can’t handle the texture of ground beef at anything below well, and I don’t like egg yolks, so that already disqualifies a lot of the popular, fancy pub-style burgers around here.
The best tasting burger I ever had was at this tiny restaurant in this small town called Salado
The best burger I ever had was when my now wife introduced me to Whataburger on our first date (technically second? it’s kinda weird…)
