Burgers

Because You Desperately Needed More Burgers, Haystack Burgers & Barley Opens Tomorrow

Haystack Burgers & Barley, the new burger restaurant we told you about in April, will celebrate its grand opening tomorrow. Unlike Hopdoddy, Liberty Burger and countless other burger restaurants, Haystack is a singular entity owned by Richardson locals Kevin and Jenny Galvan and Rob and Christine Wo ... More >>

Burger King Stuffs a Burger With Cheese and Bacon, 'Cause Laying it on Top is so 2012

It seems as if every few months, Burger King throws something out into the marketplace that seems to say, "Ah, you know we're just kidding everybody ... unless it works, then we totally meant to do that." It's very similar to watching Ryan Lochte form a complete sentence. That seems to be the teno ... More >>

A Reader Asks the Dining Critic for Burger Advice. Poor Reader.

Every once in a while someone mistakes Scott for a food expert and risks ruining dinner by trusting him to answer to a burning question. Got a question about food or restaurants? Send it via Twitter @scottreitz, Facebook @ Cityofate or in the comments. Tiffany asked by email, quite succinctly, whi ... More >>

Rodeo Goat is Open in Fort Worth (Photos)

Not upscale, not pretentious, no cute food. Rodeo Goat's tagline fits it quite well, even if it does nothing to describe what the restaurant actually is. The Fort Worth burger joint opened at the end of November at the hand of Sam Wynne, the man behind the Meddlesome Moth and the Flying Saucer chain ... More >>

Yes, There Are More Burgers and Even A Meat Maelstrom: This Week In Dallas Dining

Did someone say Wintervention? Looks like a nasty cold front is on its way. Time to break out those dutch ovens and braise some lamb shanks, I'm thinking. Or maybe a hearty beef stew is more your style. Whatever you plan on cooking, cold weather dishes make your kitchen smell amazing and always have ... More >>

Hopdoddy Hype

What it takes to build the best six-dollar burger ever.

Is Hopdoddy Just A One-Off Burger Concept, Or A Sign Of Better Food To Come

It was the Smackdown that lead me to reviewing Hopdoddy. I couldn't believe how much work the small chain put into burgers they charged so little for. Most customers will likely spend a little more on burgers topped elaborately with gourmet cheeses and toppings, but if you want, you can get a plain, ... More >>

Burger Tips From Boulevardier's Nathan Tate, For Those Of Us Who Don't Have a Grill

When I compiled tips for grilling burgers this summer, I felt bad that I left out home cooks who don't have access to a grill. To make up for the shortcoming, I challenged chef Nathan Tate at Boulevardier to cook us up a burger like he might at home: no fancy wood-burning grills, just one man and a ... More >>

Odes To Our Favorite Burgers: In Which City of Ate Reflects on the Best Meats

With burgers, like many things, beauty is in the mouth of the be-eater. While I've been running around town looking for my perfect burger, I realize that everyone has their favorites, and no amount of smackdownin' is going to change the mind of a devoted burger enthusiast. I polled the staff of the ... More >>

The Victorious Burgers of Burger Week

I can't believe burger week is coming to a close, but it had to end sometime. One can only eat so many burgers before enjoyment is lost and the cheese from one burger experience melts into another. We had six smackdowns that each pit two popular Dallas burgers against one another, and now we have ... More >>

Burger Smackdown: Deep Ellum Fast Casual Class, Twisted Root Vs. Uncle Uber's

Here's how it went down. I dropped into Twisted Root at 11:30, refreshed and ready to pummel my arteries with some serious burger action. The line started at the register and reached to the door. I was at the end of it. See Also: Burger Smackdown: Dive Bar Class, Club Schmitz Versus Adair's Saloon ... More >>

Dallas Chefs and Personalities on Favorite Burgers, Then and Now, Plus What Makes A Great Burger

What a day to celebrate choice. Regardless of what some may like to believe, really the most important choice most of us will make this week (honestly, any week) is which burger to eat. So many choices. Well, we're here to help you with the electoral map of burgers. As part of Burger Week, we sent ... More >>

12 Off-The-Beaten-Path Burgers in North Texas

Originally we ran this guide for Off-The-Beaten-Path Burgers for National Cheeseburger Day, but we're updating it now on account of our very own Burger Week. We've also lost one and gained two. But, who are we kidding? "Reasons" for burger posts are arbitrary. We could rinse and repeat all day. Sa ... More >>

Burger Smackdown: West Dallas Fast Casual Class, Off-Site Kitchen Vs. Maple and Motor

Our first smackdown of the week pits two burger joints in close proximity to Observer headquarters. I've eaten at both restaurants more often than I care to admit, but this is the first time I'd raced to Maple & Motor minutes after leaving Off-Site Kitchen with a Locals Only burger in my belly.

Yet Another Smashburger Coming To Dallas, This Time In Mockingbird Station

Smashburger announced the opening of the fifth Dallas area location of their popular burger chain based in Colorado. The new restaurant is opening in Mockingbird Station later this fall. If the Smash is not your thing, a number of other restaurants are opening in the shopping center that flanks the ... More >>

Tips For The Best Burgers You'll Ever Grill At Home

Summer is gone, and standing beside a hot grill no longer feels like an act of torture. That means it's time to fire up the charcoal, and one of the easiest way to coax the most flavor out of your kettle grill is by cooking top-notch burgers. Skip the preformed pucks the grocery stores try and sell ... More >>

Houston-Based Becks Prime Drops Their Massive Burgers on Preston

Forest Lane has a new burger place. Becks Prime opened last week promising fresh, fast, burgers, steaks and sandwiches. The Houston based fast food chain with 13 locations, comes endorsed by the same Texas Monthly list that honored Brian Luscher with the greatest burger in Texas. How does Becks st ... More >>

Houston-based Becks Prime to Open at Forest and Preston Soon

Houston-based Becks Prime Restaurant is opening its first Dallas location at 5931 Forest Lane (at Preston) soon. The Thrillist reports that pending the city's approval, the restaurant's cooks could be flipping burgers as soon as this week. The first Becks opened on Kirby Drive in Houston in1985, ... More >>

Breaking Down Mooyah, Dallas' Second-Favorite Burger. Allegedly.

Last week the Dallas Morning News tallied the votes and crowned its burger king. Angry Dog, the Deep Ellum grease pit with a loyal following, beat out Mooyah Burger, the Dallas-based burger chain built on double-meat patties and french fries with a cooking process you need an engineering degree to u ... More >>

NAAN's $4 Cheeseburger is Truly Amazing. Not the Best, and Not Good, But Amazing.

So there's this burger. A burger that lives inside a sushi restaurant. Its creator claims its fame to every customer who will listen. The claim is that it's the best in town. A co-worker told me about it a while back. I'd been to NAAN before, and it's fine. Nothing to write home about. But the tal ... More >>

At the Commissary, a New Chef, a New Burger

When the Commissary first opened, John Tesar's burgers were all the rage. Big, luscious hockey puck-shaped patties, cooked a rosy crimson all the way through, helped earn the him a Best New Restaurant award in D Magazine. The burgers were so good the Jedi of self promotion even got a pass on his not ... More >>

Chop House Burger is Open on Main Street

​Downtown's newest palace of meat, Chop House Burger, opened quietly on Monday afternoon, exactly one day ahead of schedule. CHB is brought to you by DRG Concepts, the group behind Dallas Chop House and Wild Salsa, and is located in the Kirby Building on Main Street, across from Chase Bank and jus ... More >>

Better Burgers Opens at Lemmon and Inwood, Because What This Town Needs is More Burgers

Sam and Kathy Vergos, whose family also owns Original Market Diner on Harry Hines and the Circle Grill on Buckner, have opened a new spot, Better Burgers, at the southwest corner of Lemmon Avenue and Inwood Road. The menu has the standard sandwiches, like a single, double, chicken, mushroom, BLT a ... More >>

Liberty Burger is Open and Slammed in North Dallas, and is Already Talking About Expansion

The wife and I were doing some house-hunting on Saturday morning and, after an unsuccessful showing, our realtor asked whether we wanted to try a new burger place. Being that I edit a blog that's more or less devoted to chronicling every sizzle produced by every patty of wet meat from Waco to the Ok ... More >>

Won't You Be My Neighbor, Goodfriend?

Sara Kerens​When is a burger joint more than a burger joint? When it's a damn good bar, too. While burger restaurants have been popping up around town like meth labs in East Texas, many aren't the type of place you can put in a solid session on a bar stool. Not so at Goodfriend, the new beer ... More >>

Behold, the (Allegedly) Perfect Hamburger

A simple Commissary burger (that's not so simple) ​Just about everyone knows that John Tesar has a pretty bang up burger at the Commissary. Those grass-fed patties get treated like a Park Cities trophy wife at the spa, bathing sous vide until cooked rare before receiving a final sear on the gr ... More >>

The Patty Shack Takes It Slow But is Worth the Wait

​In a fuzzy confusion of city limit lines, Patty Shack Burgers sits at 510 East Avenue K, just off Hwy 360 in either Euless, Grand Prairie or Arlington. It depends on which site you look at. Tucked away in an obscure strip of stores behind an old restaurant, it's not a place one stumbles upon, ... More >>

Dallas' Five Best Burgers

Sara Kerens​Picking the best burger is a bear. It's not that the work isn't fun -- my waistline is a testament to my enthusiasm -- it's just that there are so many types of burgers to choose from. Is the burger served at a top-end steakhouse better that what you'd pull out of a greasy paper sa ... More >>

Tonight at Meddlesome Moth, a Lesson in the Combined Power of Twitter and Burger Cravings

Raise your hand if, when your spouse is out of town, you plan your meals like you've just been released from prison? Okay, put your hands down. This perplexes me. Honestly, does your spouse normally restrict or mandate what you eat? Why does where we eat become the biggest decision we make when th ... More >>

Twisted Root Plants In Arlington, Along With (Yet Another) In-N-Out Burger

As part of Arlington's Re-identification Program, Twisted Root Burger Company is opening today at 300 E. Abram Street in the original downtown area of the city. By renovating an old furniture store, this Reader's Pick for Best Burger has quietly flown in under radar to this newest location. Just a ... More >>

Eat This: NHS Tavern's Cleaver & Block Burger

​This burger's been my albatross. I had it just a few nights after arriving in Dallas, and I've been searching for a better burger ever since. I'm not finding one. I'm not saying NHS serves the best burger in the metroplex (yes, there's an app for that), but it's definitely the best burger I've ha ... More >>

LA Burger: Korean, Mexican and American Food Make Grand Alliance in Irving

​After months of drooling over the hedonistically obscene images of burgers, tacos and other meat and carb pornography my friends had been sending me, I finally had the chance to check out the source of their obsession: LA Burger.Along with a whimsical selection of traditionally western burgers, ... More >>

In-N-Out Vs. Whataburger: A Petty Patty Smackdown

In the beef between Whataburger and In-N-Out fans, you win by not playing.

In-N-Out Burger Dallas Location To Open Thursday, Reports Say; Cue the Meat-steria

Patrick MichelsScenes from In-N-Out's opening in Frisco.​Fill the basement with canned goods and line the windows with aluminum: reports are coming in regarding the In-N-Out Burger location in Dallas. Park Cities People has a memo from the tenants of 8080 N. Central that details the security In- ... More >>

In-N-Out Burger: Worth the Wait, But Not the Fuss

First bite of the first fry by the first customer in Allen. Soon to be followed by two double-doubles.​Stay tuned to the Observer's food blog, City of Ate, for more from the In-n-Out opening.In-N-Out Burger is the best hamburger. Period. The end. When I'm in Oxnard, California for Co ... More >>

Heart Attack Grill Opens In May. Yay?

Heart Attack Grill is scheduled to open in the West End on May 13. This video, posted in 2010, features Blair River -- the 575-pound guy who used to be the spokesperson for Heart Attack Grill's location in Arizona until he died in March at the age of 29. And here's a clip from Nightline. My favo ... More >>

Kincaid's Rescues Cats Fans From Diet of Peanuts and Cracker Jack

Kincaid's Hamburgers, a Fort Worth institution that perennially appears on lists of the nation's best hamburger joints, is planning to reopen its concession at LaGrave Field during this year's minor league baseball season. ​Kincaid's sold its burgers at Fort Worth Cats games from 2005-2008, b ... More >>

Food & Wine Puts One Texas Burger on Top 25 List

Burgers are so popular in Texas that state Representative Dan Flynn recently proposed making the hamburger the state's official state sandwich, but Food & Wine could only find one example worthy of including on its new "25 Best Burgers in the U.S." list. Sara KerensNot one of the best burgers in th ... More >>

Joe Flowers of the Dallas Taco Bracket
To Open the Dallas Burger Bracket

​From classic institutions like Burger House, which has been serving paper-thin patties since 1951, and The Grape's version, named the best example of the food by Texas Monthly in 2009, to the Dallas Burger Tour, burgers are big business in Big D. It's no wonder, then, that mere months after t ... More >>

Because We Can't Go Too Long
Without an In-N-Out Reference

​In-N-Out's local opening may still be months away, but fast food fans willing to drive to Austin can feast on a sandwich being touted by burger bloggers as an Animal Style alternative. 4x4 Animal Style a contributor to the website GrubGrade who presumably knows his In-N-Out patties, is calli ... More >>

Brian Luscher: Nice Guys Can Cook

Robert Bostick​The Grape is celebrating its 38th anniversary this month, which makes it the perfect time to chat with chef and owner Brian Luscher. When the restaurant's previous owners, Kathy McDaniel and Charlotte Parker, decided to give up the Dallas institution, they tapped their former e ... More >>

Maple & Motor's Jack Perkins:
He Does it His Way

Photo by Robert BostickMaple & Motor's Jack Perkins​This week, Three-Course meal interviews burger meister Jack Perkins, who grills up one of the city's most popular patties at Maple & Motor. Tomorrow, we throw a Q&A Perkins way, and Friday he hands us the keys to the kingdom, showing us step ... More >>

12 Burgers: Beef Patties are the Devil's Plaything.

Am I Blue: Stumbling Across the Best Cheese
For a New Mex Burger

​Spending Hatch chile season in Santa Fe means eating plenty of green chile cheeseburgers, a topic of intense debate among New Mexican food lovers. Who makes the best version? Is green chile really a better burger condiment than red chile? And should there be anything on a burger besides gree ... More >>

Burger Battle Round Two: Farnatchi vs. Square Burger

Square Burger​Earlier this year Toque brought you the throw-down between up-and-coming chain Five Guys Burger and the Oak Cliff standard, Wingfield's Breakfast and Burger. It was a messy proposition that actually took us to many burger fronts all in one day. We visited Smashburger and Mooyah, as t ... More >>

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