# Best hamburger --- ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634 "2014-03-26T21:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/41 "2014-03-27T18:53:52Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Once you get over the preachiness of the place the burgers are fantastic at [**Buger Priest**](http://www.theburgerspriest.com/). (bolding mine) Was that a Freudian slip? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/42 "2014-03-27T19:05:46Z")
You guys are sooooo close! But you need some butter on that bun, and on the burger! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/43 "2014-03-27T19:10:07Z")
That’s what you put on it when you toast it. Or use Flavor Fry, it’s better but probably no longer available. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/44 "2014-03-27T19:13:58Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > You guys are sooooo close! But you need some butter on that bun, and on the burger! I tried to get to Solly’s last time I was in Milwaukee, but the wait was too long. I haven’t experienced a Solly’s burger, but, from the pictures I’ve seen, they take their butter seriously. I’ve had Kopp’s and Culver’s (and Sobelman’s, although I don’t recall their being a butter burger), though. ETA: [Here’s the picture of Solly’s](http://www.roadfood.com/photos/19258.jpg) I’m thinking of. That’s a lot of butter. I’m almost repulsed, but simultaneously intrigued. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/45 "2014-03-27T20:22:11Z")
**pulykamell** , do you ever get to the suburbs? If you do, you should really try [Brandt’s.](http://brandtsofpalatine.com/menu/) That was where I had the best burger I’d ever had or ever will have, most likely. I keep wanting to go back (it’s been a few years) but we never seem to actually do it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/46 "2014-03-27T20:27:18Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > **pulykamell** , do you ever get to the suburbs? If you do, you should really try [Brandt’s.](http://brandtsofpalatine.com/menu/) That was where I had the best burger I’d ever had or ever will have, most likely. I keep wanting to go back (it’s been a few years) but we never seem to actually do it. Yes, and as far as suburbs go, I do seem to find myself in the northwest suburbs far more often than I should (meaning, in case offense is inferred, because I live on the southwest side of the city and I seem to find myself up in that direction more often than chance would dictate. 🙂 ). I’ll check it out next time I’m in the area. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/47 "2014-03-27T20:57:53Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > ETA: [Here’s the picture of Solly’s](http://www.roadfood.com/photos/19258.jpg) I’m thinking of. That’s a lot of butter. I’m almost repulsed, but simultaneously intrigued. Holy crap! I’m repulse-intrigued as well. The meat-to-bun ratio runs pretty small though. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/48 "2014-03-27T23:20:59Z")
What’s makes a burger yummy to my mind is the taste that matters, the beef, hits your tongue straightaway. This, unlike with a lot of sandwiches that force you to chomp through layers of bread, toppings and whatever before you hit the ham or the beef or the whatever meat it hides. So size and shape is also important. No huge face-deforming burgers for me. No basketful of greens and tomatoes. No mask of chili or some weird sauce. Just a thick and well-cooked beef patty with a thin flavoring of either mustard, or ketsup, or caramelized onion. A slab of cheese, in my opinion, is mainly for the eye and the mind, not the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/49 "2014-03-27T23:47:50Z")
I remember my first, real diner style burger: [http://www.ronschili.com/](http://www.ronschili.com/) Ron Baber was a neighbor when I was growing up, and my dad took me to his place when it opened. A real burger, with a side of chili. Years later I would return to the area and tried out the Sausage cheeseburger - great combination that I duplicate at home regularly. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/50 "2014-03-28T16:18:17Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I tried to get to Solly’s last time I was in Milwaukee, but the wait was too long. I haven’t experienced a Solly’s burger, but, from the pictures I’ve seen, they take their butter seriously. I’ve had Kopp’s and Culver’s (and Sobelman’s, although I don’t recall their being a butter burger), though. > > ETA: [Here’s the picture of Solly’s](http://www.roadfood.com/photos/19258.jpg) I’m thinking of. That’s a lot of butter. I’m almost repulsed, but simultaneously intrigued. Even as a born-and-bred Wisconsite through and through, I’ll say Solly’s probably adds too much butter. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634/51 "2014-03-28T16:37:47Z")
I’m sorry but you’re all wrong and I should like to have the final word on this. The best burger can only be had at Rouge in Philadelphia. It costs a little more, but it’s worth it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-hamburger-ever/684634.md?page=2)