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 5000 listings.
These criteria determine whether or not to list:
You can search for city and state (or province) in the US and Canada. The project has a database of cities for those countries. For other countries, you can search only by current location. The project does not have knowledge of city locations in other countries.
This list has about restaurants. Some of the restaurants are part of these large chains.