Who Has the Best Burger?

Gentleman's Quarterly recently had one of its writers, Alan Richman, go off on a 23,750 mile, 150,000 calorie quest to find America's 20 best burgers. He ended up sampling 162 burgers and came up with a top twenty list.

The top ten were as follows:

1. Sirloin Burger-- Le Tub-- Hollywood Beach, Fl.
2. Luger Burger-- Puter Luger steakhouse-- Brooklyn, NY
3. Not Just a Burger-- Spiced Pier Restaurant-- Newport, RI
4. Rouge Burger-- Rouge-- Philadelphia
5. Kobe Sliders-- Barclay Prime-- Philadelphia
6. California Burger-- Houston's-- Santa Monica
7. Buckhorn Burger-- Buckhorn-- San Antonio, NM
8. Hamburger-- Miller's Bar-- Dearborn, Mi
9. Cheeseburger-- Burger Joint-- New York City
10. Number 5-- Keller's Drive In--Dallas

Alas, I have not had the burger at any of these places. I have been to Le Tub many times, but never had the burger.

This past October, I got to visit Philadelphia for the first time. Silly me, I was going after the Philly cheese steaks, and I had three of them. Looking at numbers 4 and 5, perhaps I also should have been checking out the burgers. I also had a Philly hot dog from a street vendor, and that iwas unique and DEE-licious as well.

I like burgers right up there with hot dogs when it comes to good road food.

Lovin' Dem Burgers. --RoadDog