Where’s the Beef?
At the West's best burger joints.
By: Johnny D. Boggs 06/01/2009
5. Meers Burger, Meers Store & Restaurant (Meers, OK): Okies generally don’t rave about longhorns, unless they’re at this hideaway in the Wichita Mountains, devouring a huge burger made from grass-fed hooked ’em ’horns.
4. Larkburger, Larkburger (Edwards Village, CO): The greatest fast food burger you’ll ever taste. If only that McDonald’s clown used Tillamook cheddar, organic tomatoes, truffle aioli and one-third-pound Coleman beef.
3. Squeeze Burger With Cheese, Squeeze Inn (Sacramento, CA): The most horrific nightmare a cardiologist ever had. One-third-pound beef piled high with cheddar, steamed until the cheese forms a skirt of heart-attack bliss.
2. Bacon Cheeseburger, Coyote Bluff Cafe (Amarillo, TX): Anyone who has driven across the Texas Panhandle understands they know cattle here. This unheralded gem, however, doesn’t smell like a stockyard. It smells like ... hamburger heaven ... on an onion bun.
1. Green Chile Cheeseburger, Bobcat Bite (Santa Fe, NM): Bon Appetit, GQ and Mr. Motz have raved about this legendary burger. So has another hamburger expert, my soon-to-be-second-grader son, who says, “There’s never been a better hamburger, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.”
Comments (2)
Hamburger King is one of those places, that you have to go back to for a great hamburger after having to move away from the area for whatever reason. We get hungry for one, but too far away. When we return to Shawnee, OK for a visit, Hamburger King is one of those have to go to places.
I first experienced Bobcat Bite as a college kid working at a summer camp in nearby Glorieta. Quickly became my favorite restaraunt in the Santa Fe area. Best burger in the west, no doubt.
-Jason Chandler,
Las Cruces, NM
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