Created by Village Voice Updated On: April 14, 2015
Some of these are classics, or draped with cheese. Others are gussied up with eggs or onion jam. All of them scratch an itch most of us get. When you're jonesing for a burger, turn to this list.
Burger Joint · Central Harlem · 175 tips and reviews
Village Voice: The mind-blowing veggie burger here is built on a homemade nut-and-grain patty, typically served in classic style: two patties with cheese, onions, pickles, and the restaurant's special sauce.
Village Voice: The Bash Style Burger has a juicy patty which is smeared with Dijon mustard before being grilled. Add in special sauce & a brioche roll topped with a fried onion ring, and you have yourself a lunch!
Village Voice: The towering bacon cheeseburger is a must. And be sure to savor the flaky, thick-cut onion rings on or off your burger. The kitchen only makes enough each day to put two on every plate.
Gluten-Free Restaurant · Rose Hill · 73 tips and reviews
Village Voice: The Little Beet burger is a blend of skirt steak, chuck, and brisket. It supports slabs of bacon, a mild cheddar, roasted tomato, and tangy special sauce between two halves of a gluten-free bun.
366 Metropolitan Ave (at Havemeyer St), Brooklyn, NY
American Restaurant · Williamsburg · 324 tips and reviews
Village Voice: The cheeseburger's patty is seared & slipped onto a Martin's potato roll with lettuce sliced to ribbons, thick pickle chips, chopped white onion, bound with mayonnaise. It's reliably delicious!
Village Voice: The Spotted Pig burger is a generously fatted bundle of beef, expertly char-grilled, showered in funky Roquefort blue & sandwiched between a cross-charred brioche. Crispy shoestring fries on the side.
53 Bond St (btwn Bowery & Lafayette St), New York, NY
Sandwich Spot · NoHo · 234 tips and reviews
Village Voice: Mile End's combination of smoked meat and fresh beef makes a mean hamburger! Cooked on a smoking-hot griddle and topped with American cheese, a fried egg, red onion, pickle, and mustard mayo.
Village Voice: The burger here, proudly wears a fried egg, which yolk drips onto sweet strips of maple-cured bacon & coats the Havarti cheese that blankets the patty. And that patty — it's made from dry-aged angus!
American Restaurant · Greenwich Village · 620 tips and reviews
Village Voice: The Black Label Burger with dry-aged beef and a pillowy bun smothered with caramelized onions & tangy cheddar cheese? Or the easygoing classic? Either way, both burger here are off the charts.
French Restaurant · Greenpoint · 38 tips and reviews
Village Voice: The square LaFrieda patty used to make their hamburger weeps with beefiness, and comes smothered in tangy dill pickle relish and served with a side of greaseless fries.
Village Voice: Peter Luger's burger is no frills & all flavor. It offers a thinly charred exterior to a precious pink treasure of its juicy, dry-aged core.Topped with onion, American cheese, & a thick slab of bacon.