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I'm old school. I've never been one for fried eggs, onion straws, chipotle flavored sauces and the like on my burger. I want it straight up: Lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, mustard. Period.
That said, a regional chain out of Jacksonville called https://www.thelooprestaurant.com/ does a great job. They also grill their burgers!
I’ve always been semi-obsessed with that side of the fast food equation. I started a thread on it once to build a list of places I should try out while I was trucking, but it got merged with a not-that-related thread I find that these kinds of places can often be a really great place to explore food vernaculars and get food with quality you don’t necessarily find at big name chains.
In that vein, can anybody tell me how the burgers at Cook-Out are? They always tempted me when I was rolling through the Southeast, and for whatever reason they pop into my head more often than any other place I wanted to try. Looks like there’s some in Jackson, MS, I want to actually go there next time I’m visiting family there.
I think that Cookout is very good for the money spent. Nothing wrong with it.
Albuquerque has green chile cheeseburgers, they are made with New Mexico's most famous crop, green chile. It's very hard to make a bad green chile cheeseburger and I have many favorites. Even McDonald's here makes a decent version.
My favorite right now is from a local spot called Meateor Burger in our new downtown food hall:
We recently had a place called Freddy's open up in South Alabama. We tried it out the other night and I was very impressed. As far as fast food cheeseburgers go, I don't know if I've ever had better, honestly.
Cheeburger Cheeburger in Auburn is good too, but I think that's a chain as well.
I rarely if ever order burgers from local establishments, as I consider it more of a fast food item. I'm like, how good can you really make one? The best possible burger is just not particularly exciting to me. I mean it's ground beef on a bun with whatever else you want to add.
If I'm going to hit up a non-chain restaurant, it's probably going to be for street tacos, Asian food, or smoked BBQ - not a cheeseburger.
I’ve always been semi-obsessed with that side of the fast food equation. I started a thread on it once to build a list of places I should try out while I was trucking, but it got merged with a not-that-related thread I find that these kinds of places can often be a really great place to explore food vernaculars and get food with quality you don’t necessarily find at big name chains.
In that vein, can anybody tell me how the burgers at Cook-Out are? They always tempted me when I was rolling through the Southeast, and for whatever reason they pop into my head more often than any other place I wanted to try. Looks like there’s some in Jackson, MS, I want to actually go there next time I’m visiting family there.
Cook-Out is pretty good. Not a gourmet burger, but well above the big chains. In a lot of ways it is what it claims to be -- the burger you'd make in a backyard cook out. They do have a lot of different condiment combinations to pick from.
Culver's, as far as a chain restaurant -- but I am sure there are many independent restaurants that serve good cheeseburgers, too!
I was wondering how long it would take for Culver’s to come up.
I think they’re at the upper-end of what I’d call local/regional. But they make a really, really fine burger. I mean among the best I’ve had. Too bad the fries are low-end foodservice crinkle cut crap.
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I find that these kinds of places can often be a really great place to explore food vernaculars and get food with quality you don’t necessarily find at big name chains.