The normally upscale and French-inspired menu at Vertical Wine Bistro gets a burger makeover every Thursday night that's worth a closer look. More

Calling all LA Serious (Burger) Eaters! Kitchen Nightmares has come asked for a little help from Serious Eats on one of the upcoming shows that they're shooting in Los Angeles. More

For about the same price you'd pay for a combo meal at McDonald's, you can get a top quality steak-house style burger at Fleming's. More

A magnet for aspiring Hollywood-types makes a solid, standard burger that gets the job done without much fanfare. More

Knotty Barrel serves an honest, straightforward burger that's just plain good. More

While the toppings may be fresh and tasty, a mediocre patty proves, once again, that it's the meat that matters. More

Rock Bottom Brewery's burger is a pretty standard chain restaurant burger, which is to say... pretty standard. More

A well-regarded local burger spot that spawned a mini-chain fails to impress with its signature sausage-topped burger, or much else for that matter. More

Order the Oldtimer with cheese at Chili's, and at least at one location of this mega-chain, they turned out a halfway decent patty only to surround it with way too much mustard and a sloppy pile of lackluster fixings. Does this represent every Chili's hamburger, or did our reviewer get saddled with a sub-par cook? More