Category Burgers

Meers Store and Restaurant – Meers, OK

Another stop from Hamburger America was calling as we headed east from Amarillo toward Oklahoma City.  One of the focal points of this road trip was back roads, and, boy howdy, did we find them on the way to Meers, Oklahoma.  We followed the GPS on my phone, through a series of small towns, when […]

Santa Fe Bite – Santa Fe, NM

So, the genesis for this blog was my first blog “In Search of the Perfect Burger”, which all began with a meal at Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage.  While eating there with our girls (roughly on August 5, 2008), I saw a map by the door, from the book Hamburger America.  As soon as we got […]

Waterloo Burgers – Flowery Branch, GA

Owned by the same folks that have Moonie’s Texas Barbecue down the street, Waterloo Burgers opened in late January of this year.  Someone with whom I travel quarterly was telling me about this place in May when we were visiting a common client and I had been wanting to give it a try, so two […]

Port of Call – New Orleans, LA

Arriving in New Orleans, fairly late, on Monday evening, and looking for a quick dinner, Hamburger America sent us to Port of Call, a bar (there’s no other word for it) on Esplanade.   I called to check their hours, afraid they might close at nine and found that they were only open until midnight, since […]

Bones – Atlanta, GA

With an afternoon meeting in Buckhead, and a need for lunch, the stars aligned for a visit to Bones.  Bones has been a Buckhead fixture for over 35 years and is one of the places you go for a “power lunch” in the city.  On this occasion though, I wasn’t looking for a “power lunch”, […]

Augustine’s – Atlanta, GA

I was a couple of days into my own Burger Week, following the recent passing of Ms. Anne, and ready for another burger.  I have absolutely no idea where I heard about the burger at Augustine’s.  That is a rare thing for me – I usually remember what put some place on my list, or […]

Local Republic – Lawrenceville, GA

A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by someone who was asking permission to use  my photo of the Red Eyed Mule’s Sloppy Jake Burger (read my review here) in an article she was writing for Thrillist.  I said “sure” and thought nothing more of it.  Then two weeks ago, someone I went to […]

Johnny Mitchell’s Smokehouse – Euharlee, GA

After a Saturday morning during which I surprised my wife by digging into some yard work, without prior contemplation (or prodding), about six hours into it, I suggested that we drive up to Euharlee to eat barbecue and received an affirmatory nod.  Johnny Mitchell’s Smokehouse is, basically, a destination dinner.  Not because the food is […]

Pinewood Tippling Room – Decatur, GA

I had read about Pinewood Tippling Room when it opened in 2012, in the boom of cocktail bars that opened that summer.  What is a “tippling room”, you may ask?  To tipple is “to drink (liquor) especially continuously in small amounts” – making this a place to drink, slowly.  So, it’s  a bar.  A bar […]

The Albert – Atlanta, GA

Recently named the “6th Best Burger” in Atlanta (by Atlanta Magazine), the Original Diner Burger (ODB) was put on my “to try” list right after reading the article.  Heading into town this morning (because it is Saturday and what else would you do) we headed toward Inman Park, sneaking up on The Albert from Little […]