Category Burgers
Flip Burger Boutique – Atlanta, GA
I think the first time we tried Flip Burger Boutique was well before I started my blog, shortly after it opened (early 2009, maybe?) One Saturday, we were downtown and decided to give it a whirl, iPhone in hand. Flip is the brainchild of Top Chef season 8 winner Richard Blais and is designed around […]
Bonnie’s Place – Lansing, MI
Bonnie’s Place is a bar (there’s really no other description for it) in Lansing, MI, just off the campus of Michigan State. I was in Detroit on business and realized that if I left the office by 5:00 pm, I could make it to Elderly Instruments, over in Lansing, for an hour or so before […]
Five Napkin Burger – Atlanta, GA – CLOSED
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. Several months ago, I read in the local news about a new burger joint coming to town, Five Napkin Burger, in the old space where Nickiemoto’s was located at the corner of 10th and Piedmont. This New York based restaurant, with outposts in Boston, Miami and here, is an up-scale burger […]
Grindhouse Killer Burgers – Atlanta, GA
Looking back through my lists, I also realized that I’ve never blogged about Grindhouse Killer Burgers. We ate at the original location (in the Sweet Auburn Curb Market) some time in mid-2009 and I’d been back to that location for lunch when I was in town on a couple of occasions. They’ve opened a second […]
In-N-Out – Berkley, CA
No trip to California would be complete without a stop at the BEST chain restaurant in the West: In-N-Out. Heading back into San Francisco, we realized that we needed to eat and had no earthly idea what we wanted. And then we saw the sign on the side of the freeway. The clouds broke, a […]
Nation’s and Andie’s – Napa, CA
Since we’d already hit all of the burger spots on my list, I did some wandering around town while Jo was antiquing. The first place I stopped in was Nation’s Giant Hamburgers. With a name like that, how could I drive by? I didn’t know this going in, but they’re a chain out of the […]
Val’s – Hayward, CA
One of the places that I did have targeted on the trip west was Val’s Burgers in Hayward, just south of Oakland. Val’s has been in business serving burgers and steaks since the 1950s. We headed down that way from Sonoma and arrived just ahead of the dinner-time rush. When we got there the waitress […]
Slow Club – San Francisco, CA
On Monday, we decided that the weather opportunity was as good as it was going to get during the rest of our visit to walk the three miles back and forth across the Golden Gate Bridge. Into San Francisco we drove. Man! I thought Atlanta traffic was miserable – the ride in through Berkley and […]
Gott’s Roadside – St. Helena and Napa, CA
Opened as Taylor’s Refresher in St. Helena in 1949, the restaurant was bought from the Taylor family by the Gott brothers and the named was changed to Gott’s Roadside a few years back. We stopped for a late lunch on a sunny Sunday afternoon at the original location in St. Helena. At 2:00, there were […]
Joe’s Cable Car – San Francisco, CA
When I found that I had to be in Northern California for a meeting, I consulted all of my “burger sources”. With diligent preparation, I had multiple places that I intended to hit when we were in the Bay Area. Before we left, I looked at who was open on what days and ranked my […]
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