Clockwise from top left: Shamrock Irish Pub, Detroiter Bar, Jeremy Restaurant & Bar, and Poole's Tavern. Photographs from Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press whittled down a list of hundreds of burger suggestions and spent weeks of taste testing to bring you the 25 best burgers in metro Detroit in four categories: Old School, Loaded, High End, and Alternative. While their print edition lists 25 burgers, they added another 15 to their online gallery for maximum burger food porn. This is not the gallery to look at on an empty stomach.

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