The Best Burger in Every State

Alabama

One city became more famous than the other, but the similarities remain striking, perhaps nowhere more than in Mobile's charming Garden District.

Alaska

Anchorage's neon-lit Club Paris should always offer steaks and martinis in comfort. A prominent nightclub offers a wonderful lunch special. 

Hawaii

The Daley, a sleek, focused jewel amid Honolulu's old Chinatown, worships a Hawaiian item. La Tour potato buns hold Kaua'i's Kunoa Cattle Company grass-fed beef burgers. 

Arizona

 Harvey's Wineburger, established in the 1950s, is the standard—good Bordeaux cooking wine, fresh-ground beef, crisp veg, no sauces. 

Idaho

Five-generation-old Hudson's Hamburgers in Coeur d'Alene withstood shutdowns, quarantines, a break-in, and a fire. 

Arkansas

The state's oldest bar is Hot Springs' Ohio Club, a bustling, celebrity-studded nightclub and gambling den that outlasted Prohibition and the Great Depression.

California

The burger is treated like the pillowy ricotta gnocchi or exquisite, house-cured anchovies that start many dinners.

Colorado

The state's best burger, Bud's Tavern in Sedalia, opened in the 1940s in the middle of nowhere. This cash-only spot in southern Denver.

Connecticut

The Library of Congress also supports New Haven on the first hamburger. Louis' Lunch, invented by Louis Lassen in the late 1800s, sandwiches beef scraps .

Delaware

The Charcoal Pit, a neon-lit coffee shop, serves frosted chocolate malts, ice cream sundaes, onion rings, and chargrilled burgers. Order the 10-ounce jukebox.

Florida

Miami's best burgers. Best Frita. A Cuban burger is seasoned with cumin, pepper, and paprika and served on a Cuban bun with onions and crispy potato matchsticks.

Georgia

Despite recent changes, this city loves burgers—from high-end to hole-in-the-wall, carnivore to vegan. 

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