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Review #40 – Top This (Chapel Hill, NC)

Review #40 – Top This (Chapel Hill, NC)

Top This: The Right Burger at the Right Time  Spring has always been a time of rebirth and redemption. Just as Persephone returned from the underworld and Dante emerged from his journey through Hell...

This Just In: McManus Has Gas, Is Redeemed

This Just In: McManus Has Gas, Is Redeemed

By John McManus, Burgiatrist Emeritus Grab a box of tissues. This isn’t just a review of an extremely rare and beautiful cheeseburger; it is an emotional story of regret, awakening, and redemption. I was...

Review #39 – Bad Daddy Burger Bar (Raleigh, NC)

Review #39 – Bad Daddy Burger Bar (Raleigh, NC)

Review compiled from email exchange following burgers at BDBB’s: Scott: What did you guys think of Bad Daddy’s last night? The beef-based Cantina Burger was decent. I’ll go as far as “acceptable.” Michael: I...

Renegade Review: Farm Burger (Buckhead, GA)

Renegade Review: Farm Burger (Buckhead, GA)

John, Paul, George, and Ringo didn’t become the Beatles by just dabbling in music. Chipper Jones didn’t become a baseball legend by just occasionally taking grounders. And Gallagher didn’t become a world-renowned comedian by...

Reverend Rants

Reverend Rants

Reverend Rants The Straight Beef is pleased to announce its new recurring feature, “Reverend Rants,” in which our spiritual guide Reverend Don Corey will seize you by your burgiatric soul and shake it. Hard....

Review #38 – Only Burger (Durham, NC)

Review #38 – Only Burger (Durham, NC)

(This review is also posted at WRAL Out and About.) BREAKING NEWS  Everyone Right About Only Burger, Apparently In a turn of events that shocked no one, world-renowned burgiatrists The Straight Beef finally visited...