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What connects the dots of Burger King’s new summer menu is barbecue sauce. Its new Rib Sandwich is a “juicy boneless rib patty with a sweet and tangy BBQ sauce served with sweet pickles on a warm toasted artisan-style bun.” Barbecue sauce is on the menu’s Carolina Whopper, Memphis Pulled Pork and new BBQ Chicken [...]

Food & Wine magazine likes to select the “Best New Chefs” each year. BurgerBusiness.com likes to ask, “But can they make a good burger?” This year’s F&W list is another interesting one and burgers—especially house-signature burgers—are fairly well represented given the fine-dining level of most concepts honored. Start with Chef Chris Shepherd’s Underbelly in Houston, [...]

Bobby Flay’s Crunchified Green Chile Burger took the People’s Choice Award at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, dashing the dream of fellow Food Network star Michael Symon to win for a fourth consecutive year. Symon’s entry this year was a Gruyère-topped French Onion Burger. A vanquished Symon tweeted “congrats to my boy @bflay [...]

Earlier this year, BurgerBusiness.com shared data from NPD Group showing that even as the total number of U.S. restaurants declined by 1.1% in 2011, the number of burger restaurants grew. And recently we listed more than three-dozen significant new burger-joint openings in 2012. The burger business keeps growing, and the 13 brands detailed below are [...]

This has been a really good year for burgers if by burgers you mean chicken. From Chicken McBites, Popcorn Chicken and Chicken Dippers to the Mozzarella Chicken Supreme, McBistro Chicken, 20-piece McNuggets and shareable Chicken Box, burgers often seemed consigned to a back seat. McDonald’s new Cheddar Bacon Onion was offered with choice of an [...]

By all rights, 2012 should have been the year the burger business stopped to catch its breath and reassess. Beef prices had skyrocketed. A decade or so of rapid growth had critics expecting a bubble burst for better burgers. Instead, 2012 welcomed a bumper crop of great new burger joints. Included here are more than [...]

[Wisconsin? Well, maybe later. BK has brought back the California Whopper but just in 4 West Coast states. Read details here. It's trying out the King Deals discount program in San Diego. Read here.] Burger King is heading north for the winter. The chain that created the Carolina BBQ Whopper and Texas BBQ Whopper for [...]

Officially, May is National Burger Month, but only because someone we can’t name has so designated it declared so by White Castle in 1992. October, however, has made itself an equally important month for burgers because it’s a great way to celebrate Oktoberfest. Not surprisingly, most of the month’s burger creations are riffs (with varying [...]

Esquire magazine announced its list of the Best New Restaurants of 2012 and there’s refreshing news: Seven, or nearly half, of critic John Mariani’s picks include a burger on their menus. That’s in contrast to Bon Appetit’s list earlier this year that included not a single burger-loving restaurant. Let’s praise the best of the best [...]

If you’re hungry for a burger at Bon Appetit’s “Best New Restaurants of 2012,” you’re out of luck.  A stew of sunflower seeds, barley, kale and pickled eggplant? Yes, that’s on one restaurant’s menu. The closest thing to a burger might be Chef Josef Centeno’s “bäco” flatbread sandwich with pork belly and beef carnitas at [...]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, with a little help from Seattle magazine (which earlier picked its Top 25), selects the Emerald City’s Top 20 Burgers. Where specific burgers were mentioned, they are included below. In some cases, no specialty burger was mentioned, so a tasty-sounding choice was added. Check the menus; surely there’s an idea begging to [...]