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After each city, I shall write about what I've discovered, be it through a ranking of the burgers I tried, or a profile of one particular burger joint or chef I fell in love with. Once I've been to all the cities (and had, um, 300-plus burgers), I will unveil what I've found in a gigantic national ranking of the top 100 and name what I believe to be the best burger in the country, possibly while setting off many legally purchased fireworks.
Why you should keep coming back here: to find new burger stories as I go city to city, and check back on dates when I may be in your area. You'll find the most current list of cities, and my completed city burger rankings, below.
What you should do in the meantime: follow the journey on Instagram (@ThrillistBurgerQuest) and me on Twitter (@KAlexander03) and be sure to send along pictures of amazing burgers you've eaten (using #ThrillistBurgerQuest), as well as burger joint suggestions for places I should hit next. Or, you know, just watch me gain an alarming amount of weight in real time. See you on the other side.
The Burger Quest Tour city stops:
Houston (read it here)
Pittsburgh (read it here)
Portland (read it here)
Austin (read it here)
New Orleans (read it here)
Oklahoma City (read it here)
Cleveland (read it here)
Seattle (read it here)
Minneapolis-St. Paul (read it here)
Dallas (read it here)
Milwaukee (read it here)
Detroit (read it here)
Atlanta (read it here)
Chicago (read it here)
Memphis (read it here)
Nashville (read it here)
Charleston (read it here)
Los Angeles (read it here)
San Francisco (read it here)
Manhattan (read it here)
Boston (read it here)
Philadelphia (read it here)
Charlotte (read it here)
Washington D.C. (read it here)
Brooklyn (read it here)
Kansas City (read it here)
Asheville (read it here)
Omaha (read it here)
Connecticut (read it here)
Sacramento (read it here)
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