In 2006, GQ Magazine published The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die. The restaurants are located everywhere from L.A. to New Haven to Seattle to Florida. We took a road trip that year, and we ate at about half of them.
If we'd bothered to actually read the article, we might have noticed that a large part of what makes the burger is the bun. Since we must eat gluten free, and gluten-free hamburger buns were a rarity anywhere in 2006, we had to eat ours without the bun, and we missed half the experience.
Hence, my quest to identify hamburgers you must eat, served by a restaurant on a gluten free bun. Yeah, we can't eat gluten, Yeah, we want to eat our burger on a bun just like you do. Yeah, gluten-free buns are readily available. Yeah, lettuce wraps and corn tortillas do not cut it.
This is a list of restaurants that claim to serve a decent burger on a gluten-free bun. We have not eaten at many of them, so now that we've identified a few, we can start checking them out.
When I started making this list, there were only about 40 chains. Now there are over 4000 listings.
These criteria determine whether or not to list:
This list has about restaurants. Some of the restaurants are part of these large chains.