Homemade goodness
 

The best burger in the world - made with love.

Homemade, by my dear wife.

Honest Burgers in London are the best burgers I've ever had. The Honest Burger with a red onion relish is absolutely amazing.
Meat Liquor is very good as well, but a lot greasier. Well worth it, though.

Maybe a bit off topic, but I'm finding myself getting hooked on the Five Guys Veggie Sandwich with Cheese. Basically, it's everything I'd put on a Five Guys burger, except the actual burger patty. It's also about a buck cheaper, and somewhat lower by maybe a hundred and fifty calories than a Five Guys burger done the same way, and IMHO, it tastes just as good and is just as satisfying.

Went to a fun place last weekend, a little hole in the wall called Hamburgers in Sausalito, CA. Tiny restaurant with a line out the door. They cook the burgers on a rotating grill right in the front window. Definitely worth the wait:

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Is the trend in the USA still for colossal burgers? I much prefer a quarter pound sized burger rather than the third to half pound monstrosities I've seen on some occasions.

Pretty much. (My strategy is to slice it in two on receipt, eat half, and take the rest home--harder if you're a tourist, though.) It's also safe to say that if the norm is 1/3 to 1/2 pound where I live, it's more like 1/2 to 1 lb. in, say, Chicago or Texas. (Not that you can't get a 1 lb. burger here--just not everywhere.)

"Sliders" are another burger trend--one plate of 2-3 small burgers on dinner roll-sized buns. I'm not sure what the total amount of meat is for these--I'm not good at eyeballing it, either--and the menus never specify, IME. Sometimes these are treated as a "small plate"-type option, others as an appetizer. You know, in case you need some burgers to warm you up for your 1/2 lb. burger. :eek:

Yep, that's America for you. Thankfully, I was able to split my burger with my date so it worked out very well. Plus, I like big portions as I believe I will die someday and I want to eat much burger before then :D

I've always wondered what the impetus for that is - whether the restaurants are forcing you to by more than you want, or, simply, that is really what the majority of people want. Maybe a combination of both?

There are plenty of huge burgers to be found in the US, but it's an overgeneralization to say that that's the norm. I view it as more of a he-man fascination: a fad among the same people who like to have a raw egg on top of everything they eat.

Here's an excellent photo essay of how burgers are traditionally done in my part of the Midwest: The Smashed Crispy Burgers of Central Illinois.

That looks great! I once spent a summer in Champaign. Wonder how I missed that

Best burger in the world I had last week at a local Texas Longhorn in Stockholm (http://www.texaslonghorn.se/restaurant/sickla/) - there are altogether 30 Texas Longhorn restaurants in Sweden. First one was founded in 1994 by Texan/Swede Philip Huntzinger.
I had the Smokehouse burger with bacon, cheddar cheese and the Texas Longhorn Steak Sauce together with crispy onion rings - delicious!!

Superburger in Santa Rosa

Oh man... Makes me hungry just thinking about that... And I just drove through there last week. Missed out

I wouldn't say the best in the world but it was extremely good - Fergburger in Queenstown, NZ.

The fries and fry sauce, now they might be the best in the world!!!!

A fergburger with fries and a ginger beer - I think about it frequently and can't wait to go back!!!!

I had something like this in a mom-and-pop place (the kind that's been in business since 1927) in some tiny town in Missouri a few summers ago. They only had about a half dozen items on the menu, but had perfected them all. The burgers were really good, and not overly large.

Worth a try if you find a place that serves burgers in that style, certainly! (I can't remember the name of the restaurant, or the town, which were way off the beaten path--but we found the restaurant on Yelp.)