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Notes from the Burger Underground

Notes from the Burger Underground

Classic Drive-In Cooking Sometimes you can’t get out to a restaurant when the burger craving hits. The Straight Beef feels your pain. Here, then, is your guide to making classic drive-in and diner style...

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...

Skillet Burger with Bacon Jam

Skillet Burger with Bacon Jam

Skillet, Seattle’s acclaimed diner and food truck empire run by chef Josh Henderson, is known for its extravagant burger. Not extravagant in terms of high-dollar ingredients, but extravagant in the sense of “lacking restraint”...

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...

Behold the Power of Burgers

Behold the Power of Burgers

In-N-Out president Lynsi Torres is the youngest female billionaire. That’s what serving a great burger can do for you. [Photograph: Robyn Lee] Here’s the Bloomberg profile of Lynsi Torres that ran earlier this week....

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...