Category: Reviews

Review #46 – Merritt’s Store and Grill

Review #46 – Merritt’s Store and Grill

We find our humble burgiatrists wandering around Merritt’s Store & Grill, each of them eager to successfully execute the Sisyphean processes of ordering, receiving, and paying for a hamburger. ACT I: ORDERING Michael: Well,...

Review #45 – Corbett’s Burgers and Soda Bar (Cary, NC)

Review #45 – Corbett’s Burgers and Soda Bar (Cary, NC)

Michael’s Review Corbett, the man who owns Corbett’s Burgers & Soda Bar, knows a thing or two—or twelve—about hamburgers. He’s spent countless hours refining the blend of the beef, which he grinds fresh, in-house,...

Review #44 – Brewster’s Pub (Cary, NC)

Review #44 – Brewster’s Pub (Cary, NC)

What two tastes make the greatest taste combo? No, it’s not peanut butter and chocolate—though that’s close. It’s burgers and beer, of course. That’s why The Straight Beef teamed up with our hoppy counterparts...

Review #42 – Gorman Street Pub (Raleigh, NC)

Review #42 – Gorman Street Pub (Raleigh, NC)

These Are Not The Burgers You’re Looking For The voice of the Ancient Burgiatrist Kobe-Wan came quietly into the Straight Beef’s collective conscious: “You will go to the Gorman Street System.” Gorman Street? “There...

Review #41 – Geer Street Garden (Durham, NC)

Review #41 – Geer Street Garden (Durham, NC)

Geer Street Garden (Durham) Durham’s popular Geer Street Garden—spitting distance from Duke Tower—offers one burger, infinite ways. The third of its three listed toppings—bacon, cheese, and “What-Have-You”—summoned the inner Seuss in each of us…...

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...

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...

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...