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Originally posted by Outnumbered:
1) Mine, hands down, no contest.

2) The Old Fashioned on Capitol Square, Madison, WI

3) The Nook, St. Paul, MN

4) Sobelmann's, Milwaukee, WI

5) The Cheesehead @ Solly's, Glendale, WI (previously rated #1 in the USA)

My daughter and grandson live in Madison and I'm there a lot. The Old Fashioned never disappoints. We usually get the potato chips and haystack onions with our Old Fashioned burger. My son in law does the Old Fashioned trifecta: Drinks an Old Fashioned, (or two) an Old Fashioned Burger, then and Old Fashioned dessert. Of course with cheese curds as an appetizer. That whole thing would make me unable to walk to the car.

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Originally posted by indigoss:
Fuddruckers gets my vote....they butter and grill the bunn

I forgot about ButtFuckers!! Hells yes!

ETA: Damn autocorrect!!

The Thurman Cafe in Columbus, Ohio. Home of the Thurmanator.

Keller's Drive-In - Dallas

http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/kellers/

An airport restaurant in Cincinnati, of all places.

Hunger is the best sauce, as the old saying goes.

I'd say Tessaro's in Pittsburgh has the best.

Five guys sucks.....no flavor and cooked on a flat top.

Shula Burger or Flanigans both have good burgers that are cooked on a grill. Houstons has good burgers also.

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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
We came across this place called "The Original Super Burger" in Willis TX.

If not the best, it is in the top 5 that I can remember.

Yum.

Hmm, may have to track that place down.

There's a place in Corsicana called Across the Street Diner. They have tasty burgers. We eat there everytime we pass through.

Hodads in San Diego

Driving the Alaska Highway, we stopped in the Youkon at a small hotel. Dinner was family style and we got two cheeseburgers each. I have no idea what the meat was. However, it literally melted in your mouth. I bolted the two and could have finished off the plate.

They are all a wonder land in my mouth.

I posted my obligitory vote for in n out in the other thread so I thought I would reiterate here. I need to read up on smash burger, as they are putting one in here.

Fuddruckers

Thanks to the comments here on Five Guys... I'll save my money and continue to eat elsewhere.

Two come to mind immediately.

1. A giant elk burger that my hunting buddy prepared, right after we packed that big son of a gun out of the woods.

2. I was in Austin for the F1 race a couple weeks ago, and my brother and I went to Casino El Camino on East 6th Street, and for whatever reason, that thing was unbelievably good. My brother and I are still talking about it.

Little hole in the wall in Meers, Oklahoma served up the best burger I've ever had in a burger joint. It damn near took up an entire pie tin.

As for other than burger joint fare, there is a little place in Utah that serves up a mean Yo-Burger. Can't wait to get one of those again!

When I think about a good burger, what always comes to mind for me are the ones from Henrietta's Cafe in Ocean Springs, MS in the 70s - 80s timeframe when the original owners were alive and running it. It was a small place but the meat was ground fresh daily and everything about their simple burgers just worked. As far as chains go, Fuddruckers, Teddy's Bigger Burgers and In-and-Out Burger are all pretty good to me.

Fuddruckers is good, but my two way tie is between Shake Shack and Five Guys.

As much as I travel, nothing from a unique restaurant or pub/bar really stands out. For "chain" establishments, I find Fuddrucker's fits the bill for me, too.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Hunger is the best sauce, as the old saying goes.

Imagine spending the day scalloping in the Gulf of Mexico. Sun on your back, fins pushing you forward while scanning the grass flats for delicious treats. After limiting out an hour's boat trip up the Crystal River leads you to an enormous freshwater spring. 72 degree gin-clear water feels as though it soaks into your salt dehydrated skin.

Rinsing down the boat and equipment in the spring water gives the sun time to dry your body if not your bathing suit. A short boat ride across King's Bay takes you to a fairly new (at the time) restaurant called Crackers.

The Cracker Burger cooked medium rare with all the usual fixings and swiss cheese with a huge side of seasoned fries arrives after the tantalizing smells from the grill have reminded you of your hunger.

Every messy bite is perfect.