Who ever the guy that talked about seasoning meat needs to re-evaluate his cooking style. Seasoning your meat is what sets it apart from other’s. Every griller, chef or butcher has their own seasoning that they have created and discovered through the years of working with meat. Now like anything…some might over use their seasonings and some might use a dash of sea salt and fresh cracked peppercorn. Go read a book on basic meat preparation…for serious. Of course, I am getting riled up at a posting that happened nearly two years ago, maybe I should be looking for a job today instead of responding to a nearly 2 year old post on the best burgers in Sacramento.

Skip Zin Grill [dropped the E for them!] & cross the street to try out the burger at Roxy! Its all natural, black angus, pasture fed beef from the owners’ ranch in Dixon. You can put smoke cheddar, goat cheese, avocados, portabella mushrooms and/or nueske bacon on it!

River City Brewing Company believe it or not has a decent burger too. And who can forget Fanny Anns!!! Also Tower Café has some pretty yummy burgers too.

Willie’s is horrible – back in the days when I worked at Tower Records on Broadway – my manager Brian had a standing order No employee was allowed to eat there b/c you always smelt like a grease pit and it would stink up the store!!! To this day I’ve never eaten there.

I read a review that said Ford’s made the best burgers because of the high quality meats…

Squeeze inn gets its rep from the cheese, their meat is only so-so. They have decent buns as well. I plan to try fords.

As far as Kobe Burgers, none of them are all that great. Kobe beef is delicate and really doesn’t pair well with pickles, onion, tomato, mayo, mustard, etc. The rest of the burger tends to overpower the delicate flavor of the Kobe Beef. In my opinion, Kobe burgers are all hype and no delivery.

Now if the Squeeze Inn bumped the quality of their meat up (flavor quality), they would take the cake.

I’ll go give Fords a try, according to the reviews, it’s worth a shot.

Sorry, but I’m not hip with the kobe burger and have no idea where to find one.

So far my second favorite burger place in Sacramento is The Squeeze Inn. Squeeze Inn makes a burger with so much cheese that it melts over the side and forms into a mini grilled cheese wafer like thing which is awesome! I don’t like the fries that much because they are all different sizes, so some are overcooked some undercooked and some just right.

Third would be California Fats in old sac…it’s not a burger place per se, but they do have this burger that is made out of Kobe beef from Korea that is prime beef with all kinds of different flavors…more than you would expect from a burger. They then fry mushrooms and cheese all over the top and the burger is so juicy you wouldnt believe it from a “chinese” type restaurant.

Whoever put Fords on the top of their burger list is crazy. I went to Fords and tried one of their burgers and it was bad…not just that, but either they put sooooo many spices in their meat that you can’t taste the actual beef, or they use some sort of sausage mixed in with their beef. I found Fords to be overpriced and gross.

Jim Denny’s is a close third. They have good ols fashioned style burgers with good taste. Fries are every day run of the mill frozen fries with seasoned salt.

Bowinkle’s has some great burgers too try the mushroom burger if you like mushrooms =-)

Papa’s Pizzeria also has a grille and it is awesome! Try the Square Burger…it is made with two 1/4 lb patties side by side on a big piece of sourdough bread that are covered in garlic butter and grilled until crisp. On the burger itself they put american and swiss cheese a few pieces of canadian bacon, mayo, lettuce, tomato, and onions…it is well worth going to a pizza place for a burger!

I’ve also had some good burgers from Classic Burgers on Fulton (just south of El Camino) and Jasper’s Giant Hamburgers on Fulton (just north of Hurley). I’ve got photos of burgers from all those places and many more:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tspauld/sets/960578/

But seriously, this unabashed flirting has to stop. I’m in a committed relationship. Doesn’t your husband get jealous?

I took a picture on my second visit.

http://www.novelnematodes.net/burger.jpg

Don’t order a veggie burger at the Sacramento Zoo, however. I felt guilty ordering an animal product there once so I opted for the veggie burger & it was still frozen in the middle.

I’d go with The Sun Flower Drive Inn in old fair oaks myself. Makes me miss Greta’s though.