Cincinnati’s Top 45 Burger List for 2015 – My Personal Checklist!

Hey – I just want a place to keep track of Cincinnati’s Best Burgers. Here’s the list from Cincinnati Magazine – along with a link to a review of mine – if I’ve been there! Let’s see how many of these I can get to this year! They only come out with this list every 5 years – so it’s a big event to go through the ranks!

1. Dutch’s Bar & Bottle Shop: Burger du Jour, $12 – East Hyde Park
2. Gas Light Café: Gas Light Burger, $6.50 – Pleasant Ridge (This is highly overrated to me) 
3. Red Feather: Burger, $15 – Oakley
4. Krueger’s Tavern: Krueger’s Burger, $9 – OTR (yum!!)
5. Zip’s Café: Zip Burger, $5.50 – Mt. Lookout
6. Doris & Sonny’s Homelike Restaurant: Big Jack, $5.95 – Miamitown
7. The National Exemplar: Kentucky Bison Burger, $14 – Mariemont (been but haven’t had the burger)
8. The Rookwood: The Barnsdale Burger, $17 – Mt Adams (been but haven’t had the burger)
9. Oakley Pub & Grill: The Burger, $8.95 – Oakley (been but haven’t had the burger)
10. Maribelle’s Eat + Drink: Lamb Burger, $14 – Mt Lookout
11. Metropole: The Metropole Cheeseburger, $16 – Downtown (been but haven’t had the burger)
12. Jean-Robert’s Table: French Chateau Burger, $15 – Downtown (been but haven’t had the burger)
13. Gabby’s Café: Gyro Burger, $12 – Wyoming
14. Paxton’s Grill: Our Famous Big Paxton’s, $8.59 – Loveland (been but haven’t had the burger)
15. Walt’s Hitching Post: The Trifecta Burger, $13 – Ft Wright (been but haven’t had the burger)
16. Sammy’s Gourmet Burgers & Beers: Sammy’s Burger, $10.49 – Blue Ash
17. The Precinct: The Jeff Ruby Burger, $19.75 – Mt Lookout
18. Herb ’n Thelma’s: Tavern Double Cheeseburger, $5.25 – Covington
19. The Elusive Cow Café: Lamb Burger, $11.50 – Bellevue (I didn’t get the lamb but the bison burger was not good – I’m not going back)
20. The Echo: Cheeseburger, $6 – Hyde Park (been but haven’t had the burger)
21. BrewRiver GastroPub: The Natchez, $14 – East End (been twice – but haven’t had the burger – didn’t like it either time – not going back)
22. Bouquet: Bouquet Burger, $14 – Covington
23. Senate: Senate Burger, $12 – OTR (been but haven’t had the burger)
24. Wunderbar: Wunderburger, $8.50 – Covington (try the pierogies)
25. Gordo’s Pub & Grill: French, $12 – Oakley (I got a different burger – but comparable)
26. Salazar: Burger, $17 – OTR – (got the burger – no idea what they loved about it)
27. The Root Beer Stand: Quarter Pounder, $3.50 – Sharonville (been a million times – but always get the Timmy Dog)
28. Chicken on the Run: Cheeseburger, $2.39 – Deer Park (got a Patty Melt – not impressed)
29. Jimmy G’s: Barge Bash Burger, $15 – Downtown (been but haven’t had the burger)