Tag: Burgers

Try these scrumptious secret meals from Seven Lamps, the Optimist, and Houston's.

For two months I plowed through burgers across metro-Atlanta, driving as far as Lawrenceville and testing as many as five a day. Ranking something as loved and as universally appealing as the hamburger is bound to ignite (and re-ignite) discussions, and I’ve enjoyed the feedback as the list makes its way around the Internet and into mailboxes. But nobody, as far as I know, has gotten as serious as Amy and Chad Gregory.

The best of the fast-casuals first opened in Smyrna in 1986, decades before a fancier wave of joints crashed down on us.

There’s more to Ford Fry’s nautical seafood temple than fresh Georgia shrimp. Available only at lunch, the squat six-ounce burger is two thin patties made out of skirt steak trimmings ground with frozen butter (for real).

Growing up, I was terrified of my best friend’s grandmother, tiny but fierce with her shellacked black hair, penciled eyebrows, and penchant for telling us girls to “stand up straight.” When I confessed I had never eaten a burger at the Varsity, she declared my situation “un-American, un-Southern, and un-Christian.”

Danny Meyer’s international burger empire arrived in Buckhead Atlanta last fall.

Wrecking Bar puts as much effort and thought into its food as its beer list.

Decatur turned out to be a disappointing zone for burgers—save for this cozy cocktail bar.

Pastrami is the new bacon, at least according to Todd Ginsberg, who showers chunks of it on top of fries soaked in gravy, stuffs it between soft bread, and crowns his burger with it.

September 20, 2014, marked the last day of service for Zesto on Ponce de Leon Avenue, the iconic chrome diner that served only ice cream when it first opened in 1954.