If the doctor has told you that, in order to keep breathing, you must turn boiled vegetables into your best friend, run away from Barcelona sooner. The city had never enjoyed an offer of signature burgers so abundant and attractive. matured meats old cow, kilometer zero beef, homemade sauces and pickles, rolls made to measure for each house… The madness is real: we are in full bonanza hamburger and neither you nor anyone, no one can change it. The following restaurants have raised the bar through the roof and have managed to make the fast food be also fancy food. There are those who have become accustomed to living with kilometric queues. So forget Burger King; these are the real ones burger kings. And tell the endocrinologist you’re canceling today’s appointment.
1. The Red Queen
Simply the best
On paper, it’s not a burger joint, it’s a gourmet sandwich bar. In my head, it’s not a burger joint either, it’s heaven. Torpedo is an idea of Rafael Pena (Brawl) that a bad thing has succeeded: starters, sandwiches and wines of supreme quality, in a bar to eat quickly and well. There are many variables that influence its success, but there is one element that shines with the intensity of a meat supernova: the house burger. I will be brief: it is the best burger I’ve eaten in my miserable life. And four years after his birth, it still seems like a miracle to me. the disks of matured cow they dissolve to the point less, in red, as it should be; the cheeses melted and the sauces your fingers are smeared with happiness; the pickles they are not mere spectators; and the bread of Brioche It is a cloud of measured sweetness that gives all the prominence to the intense flavor of the meat. There are ultras that swallow them in pairs; the drug is bad. / Aribau, 143. bartorpedo.com
2. Barceloneta to the point
Holy ‘burger’
cosmic burgers the sacred fly over the Barceloneta as if they were UFOs from a galaxy far, far away. They deserve to be in the Barcelona top 5. quality ingredients, pornographic presentationsdrips of sauce that look like waterfalls and to live that are two burgers. I open fire with some delicious corn tequeños and the Bacon Cheese Lovea perfect artifact, unctuous, with a flavor of embers, nailed point, addictive brioche, fine and glazed bacon: yum. I finish with the ‘smash‘ of the house, with three discs of beef, sundried tomato mayonnaise, cheddar, bacon jam, brioche bread and, oh!, an overflowing shot of cheese if you want to inoculate the bug with an extra dose of happiness. the best vaccine that exists, lives God. / Sant Carlos, 11. Instagram: @lasagrada_bcn
3. Smoked and sunken
In your ember or in mine
You are on the road to excess, as Heroes of Silence used to say. In Roast They don’t fool around, they don’t like containment, they want it all and they want it now, like Freddie Mercury. Their burgers are imperial, instagrammable to the marrow, delicious, and its smoky aura (magnificent job on the coals) turns them into little less than Marian apparitions arising from coal. They use organic and matured aged beef of exceptional quality, and the extra ingredients are not to be outdone. The New York It comes with chunks of highly smoked pastrami only for people over 18 years of age. The Don It is also left to be loved by a layer of smoked shredded meat. And in the Roast the chimichurri rains as if you were in the monsoon season. Essential umbrella and bib. / Passage by Lluís Pellicer, 12. www.asadobarcelona.com
4. Street
Fast but good
Came to Steel Street Flavors and I see groups of people devouring burgers in the same street. The place is tiny and many customers prefer to take their loot out in the open. It is the closest thing to a food truck without being, that is, this is fast food in the most literal sense, but the quality of the product is inversely proportional to the comfort of the space. With some imperial discs of kilometer zero beefa bread of Brioche delicious and all luck homemade ingredientsthe parts that come out of the wheelhouse are so addictive that are devoured with canine craving. The kimchi burger It will satisfy the most adventurous. The smash burger oklahoma, for the most classic. the colossal truffled, for foodies. And the Steel Deluxe –with two 150-gram hamburgers– is dedicated to gluttons. They never fail. / Espaseria, 10. Instagram: @acero_street_flavors
5. Madness in the Born
simple minds
It lives up to its name: in an exhalation they put you one of the simplest and most glorious burgers from Ciutat Vella. the tails of pilgrims they leave no room for doubt. In fast eddie’s have found one perfect formula which mainly attracts a young audience, in need of quality calories. the letter is shorter than Froilán’s curriculum, but it is as intense as the nightlife of the very grandest. quality brioche bread, smash burgers of medium intensity matured meat, homemade pickles, a bit of onion and sauces. She’s over. They do not need more claims to unleash the craziness among its faithful, who accept the inconveniences of the place –small, narrow, hectic, with cardboard glasses– without joking, with their mouths always full and their dripping paws. your hamburger fried chicken is also divine and the potatoes they always more than fulfill as secondary actresses. You would eat even the paper that wraps the mandanga. / Carders, 6. Instagram: @fasteddiesfood
6. Always ‘smash’
two bites
in matters of smash burgersfew can cough hideouta successful and reliable team that has perfected the art of crush meat balls until reaching nirvana. They presume to be the first restaurant who seriously opted for this type of burger and they assure that everything that enters through that little mouth is homemade. My favorite is the house burgerwith two impressive slices of bacon, two discs of juicy meat to the point, some pickles which are blessed glory and a combo of sauces and yellowish cheese that finishes off the job properly. when i want one night of excesses and quality self-destruction, my option is the Say Cheesewith an irrepressible cataract of melted cheese sauce and a meteor shower super crispy bacon. / Consell de Cent, 242/ Diagonal, 121. hideout-burger.com
7. Pig to the left
Big words
Seniority, trade and respect. In the pig they take the art of making burgers very seriously. So much dedication and work pays off, it is not in vain one of the most recognized restaurants and loved by connoisseurs of this universal sandwich. In La Porca they leave nothing to chance, they take care of the product in all its flanks, you know that this double cheeseburger with bacon It will cross your body like a blessing. Special mention deserves startersbecause their bravas with pig gift they are crazy and cheek croquettes in red wine They deserve an Oscar. By the way, they have a Ral de Avinyó pork smash burgerDid you think that the name of the place was free? The best hamburger restaurant in Poble Sec. / Kill, 16. www.laporca.com
8. Japanese Burgers
wagyu for everyone
A Japanese burger joint is possible. The creators of the magnificent restaurant Mako have opted for a formula that combines the aesthetics of a japanese bar and the spirit fast food from a burger joint. The result is a innovative letterfull of experiments like the unagi burgerwith eel, or the wasabi beefburger, with double ‘smash’ of beef, lettuce and wasabi sauce and kizame. Obviously, its most iconic product is the burgers with wagyu beef, at quite reasonable prices, by the way. In the accompaniments, the Japanese live not only on potatoes, and they have steamed edamamesalad pickles or Japanese fried chicken. For dessert? Repeat with me: mo chi. / Riera de Cassoles, 34. kemakobcn.com
9. Crushed Love
good and cheap
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My partner is clear: when he wants to eat a burger at homeonly has a name in the head: Smash House. here’s a Shrine of the squashed burgers on the griddlea house that bets on the simplicity and shows that reasonable prices and quality They are not conflicting concepts. The smash house It is perhaps his most representative work and a declaration of intent, less is sometimes more. Combining house sauce (delicious) and bacon and onion reduction It’s heavenly music earthly price. And the smash truffle It is a sobrada with gruyere cheese, mushrooms, crispy shallots and truffled hollandaise sauce, and it will cost you less than a cubata. The concept “gets you out of trouble” taken to another level. / Stenographer Garriga, 5. Instagram: @smashhouseburgers