Burgers

I will admit to having an absolute number of all time personal favorite burgers to choose from in Chapel Hill and the Triangle. My bias is being fully displayed in this post.

• Acme in Carrboro — the same luxuriant burger they serve now has been on the menu since i started going to their Tuesday night 1/3 off specials every other week in
• Hawthorne and Wood — it’s a classic too because it has never changed in 10 plus years. Appetizing and appealing as ever.
• Buns — their wide range of specialty burgers kick ass and what they do with tuna is first rate. The only burger joint I know make Caesar salads with fresh greens and fresher creamy anchovies. https://bunsofchapelhill.com/menu/
• Kitchen — pre Covid while I was still working on campus Kitchen had a wonderful light lunch — Niçoise salads, French onion soup, and a fantastic burger with a bucket of crispy perfectly salted frites — my goodness
• Al’s Burgers — fresh burgers with the best krinkle fries and freshly cracked black pepper
• Linda’s menu was/and still is filled with lots of first rate bar food but their burgers make for good eating as did and the short order special burgers at Hector’s and Sutton’s. I ate lunch and breakfast routinely at Sutton’s or Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe from my return to Carolina in 1972 until God knows when. The burgers cooked on Sutton’s grill we’re like those I grew up eating in my hometown. Hector’s however were special somehow. I lived in a house on Rosemary less than a block away for a year and ate at the place in its original lower level store on my way home almost every other night. When that building was gutted by a fire and remained closed for several years I rarely went to their temporary homes. When they returned to the original building and on the upper floor with the view overlooking McCorkle Place I loved it. The line cooks had perfected grilling everything but I loved the sizzle and aroma of beef and onions for those burgers.

The following gallery is of some the huge variety of burgers we’ve eaten on our lunches, but my friend Scott is the real burger aficionado. Most of these beauties he described as melt in your mouth good.