Best Burger

[Web Jim Edmonds]

Besides sit down restaraunts and the ones you and your buddy grill, what is your favorite "classic" burger? Here are a few popular ones:

1. Steak N Shake Steak Burger
2. Rally Burger
3. Big Mac
4. Red Robins 5 Alarm Cheddar Burger
5. Whopper/Double Whopper
6. Wendy's Classic Single
7. White Castles Mini Burger
8. Fuddruckers Ultimate Burger
9. JackNTheBox Grilled Sourdough Burger
10. Fat Burger
11. QuarterPounder/Double Quarterpounder
12. Cal Jr's/Hardees Cheesesteak Burger
13. Sonic Doublestack Bacon Burger
14. 5 Guys Double Cheese Burger
15. WhatABurger
16. In&Outs Allstar Burger
17. Other

In St. Louis, Steak & Shake burgers has to take it hands down. Been eatin them burgers for 15 years now, havent put 'em down and probably never will.

[PaulRigdon]

Philly Way on Wells has one of the best burgers I've ever had. Get it with Wiz and fried onions! Delicious!!

[razzzorsharp]

Fast Food...

 

1) Whooper

2) All others

[chrisisoutrunning]

Double Cheddar Butter Burger for me

 

if I can include a local place, Dotty's Dumpling Dowry in Madison

[yount19.u]

Hands down it's Nite Owl off Layton Ave. I have yet to find a burger that comes close. Meet the challenge of a double cheeseburger, fries and a shake and you've become a man. Solidly in second place is a Kopp's burger. I live in Madison and there is no place here that can hold a candle to Nite Owl or Kopp's. Not even Dotty's, which is probably Madison's best burger joint.

[Blancofan1]

Wendy's Baconator does the trick for me. For a local place, Sobelmans on St. Paul is my favorite in the Milwaukee area.

[SeriesFinale]

As far as non-fast food, I love those greasy ones they serve at Kroll's in Green Bay

 

Booches in Columbia Missouri are also fantastic

 

There's a small local chain (about 4 locations) in SF called BurgerMeister that I'm also a sucker for

[bigredrobbo]

I second the Nite Owl. Just typing the words "Nite Owl" raises your cholesterol levels!

[danzig6767]

Double Cheddar Butter Burger for me

Love those

 

There is this small place called Vinchi's that's inside a bar and they make this incredible steak and cheese sandwich that's really just a big burger and it's truly amazingly good. It's is though for those watching their weight a pounds putting on killer given all the cheese/butter on it.

[InsomniacInkRoss]

Non-chain: http://www.milwaukeesbestburgers.com/

 

The link says it all, hand down Sobelman's, blows everything else I have ever had out of the water (I'm looking at you Kopp's)

 

Best fast food $1 burger: Wendy's Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger

Best fast food "special" burger: Angry Whopper

Best fast food everyday burger: Whopper

Chain: I really like the Royal at Red Robin

 

Other notes: I will never eat White Castle again for the remainder of my life. I was very under-whelmed with Sonic in KC, but need to give the one here a chance.

[Brian the Automator]

- Kroll's in GB

- 4x4, animal style, at In & Out Burger

- Anything at Fuddrucker's

- Dave's Favorite at Famous Dave's

[Bikeage77]

- Kroll's in GB

- 4x4, animal style, at In & Out Burger

- Anything at Fuddrucker's

- Dave's Favorite at Famous Dave's

I know In & Out has a "secret" menu, and I know about the 3x3 and 4x4, but what does "animal style" mean? I have a bet with a friend for a meal (I win if the Brewers lose less than 100 games, easy bet I know). Just wondering what I'm gonna be eating someday.

[Brian the Automator]

I know In & Out has a "secret" menu, and I know about the 3x3 and 4x4, but what does "animal style" mean? I have a bet with a friend for a meal (I win if the Brewers lose less than 100 games, easy bet I know). Just wondering what I'm gonna be eating someday.

The meat is cooked and fried with mustard and then pickles

[blatzlight]

Double double with cheese animal style from In N Out wins hands down. It is not even a contest and isn't close.

I do like the Sourdough Jack from the Jack in the Crack.

The fried egg option from Fatburger is great too.

[yoshii8]

My Madison favorites

Weary Traveler's "Bob's Bad Breath Burger" is outstanding

Old Fashioned, the #30 is awesome

Dotty's Dumpling Dowry is also very good.

 

The Spot in Kenosha also has great Burgers, although I'm not sure if there still open.

 

Favorite Fast food - BK Bacon double cheese burger

[sbrylski]

Um, how is 5 Guys not everyone's top choice?

[Patrick425]

I think there was a thread like this a year or two ago.

 

This is going to sound odd, but I really enjoy McDonalds Hamburgers. I have never been a big fan of the "big and juicy" type hamburgers that have sauces dripping out of them and things falling out every time you try to take a bite. I like a drier, smaller burger.

[thebruce44]

The Royal Red Robin burger with BBQ sauce substituted for the mayo is the best I have had outside of MKE (Sobelman's). It has cheese, an egg, and bacon on it...just awesome.

[FVBrewerFan]

Culver's burgers belong on the list, with the cheddar burger being my favorite there. But my #1 choice is definitely In N out

[Teatoe993]

Tom's Drive-In's in the Fox Valley are about the only fast food place I'll go to get a burger from when I am at home. A&W is pretty good too.

[chadomac]

In order of awesomeness:

 

1. Kopp's

2. Mazo's (Off 27th and Oklahoma)

3. Soberlman's

 

I'm not a big burger guy in general but I LOVE those three places/burgers.

[logan82]

The Great Dane's Brat and Bacon Pretzel Burger - brat patty and burger patty served with bacon and cheddar cheese on a soft pretzel bun - I am going to be eating one of these in a few hours

Red Robin Blue Ribbon Burger

[SeriesFinale]

I really prefer Culver's to In-n-Out

 

If I could somehow get a meal of a Culver's butterburger, In-n-Out animal-style fries, and then some Kopp's frozen custard for dessert, I'd be a happy man

[GormanHarvey]

I am also a fan of the Nite Owl. My grandma used to take me there as a kid for burgers and malts. I used to like Kopp's but the last few times I had their burgers they were way too greasy and not very good. I am a burger lover and actually Texas Roadhouse has very, very good burgers. If anyone is ever in Eau Claire, Mogie's Pub on Water St. has excellent burgers. I have to try Sobelman's. And I like 5 Guys too for a fast food burger.

[chrisisoutrunning]

The greasiness is the reason I don't eat Kopp's burgers anymore. I feel like I'm going to die of a heart attack afterwards... I don't know why I didn't mention Monk's in the Dells earlier, but I was basically raised on those. But you have to go to the one downtown, not the new one out by the interstate... I think all of the years of burgers being cooked have created some sort of secret spice that makes them oh so good...