Updated to: 9/3/2022. Looking for the best hamburger in Spain! With this claim, 'Best Burger Spain' began on February 1, the II Spanish Hamburger Championship, a gastronomic event celebrated around this famous dish.
More than 240 restaurants, bars and burger joints from all over the country competed from February 1 to 28 to show that theirs deserved to be among the best hamburgers in Spain.
The jury was the clients themselves, who gave their opinion and scored the hamburgers through a voting system that they could access through their mobile phones.
In this first phase, after more than 250,000 hamburgers sold and 155,250 votes, the most delicious proposals of each autonomous community were chosen and the champion restaurants in each region.
The top ten burgers classified have met in the expected final, held before a notary, on Wednesday, March 9 at the MEGA, Star Galicia Museum, in A Coruña, in a blind tasting before a professional jury chaired by the gastronomic critic Jose Carlos Capell and composed of the following members: Alejandra Anson (Expert gastronomic disseminator and co-founder of Ansón & Bonet), the chef Pepe Solla (Casa Solla), the chef Fernando Agrezar (As Garzas) and the chef Iria Espinosa (Arbore da Veira).
Looking for the best hamburger in Spain!
The following prizes were announced in the final: Special mention of Best Burger Spain Originals, Winners by Autonomous Communities (3rd, 2nd and 1st), The Best Cheese Burger Spain by Kerry Gold (3rd, 2nd and 1st) and the award Best Burger Spain (3rd, 2nd and 1st), which wins the comb for the best hamburger in Spain.
And without further delay: you can eat the best hamburger in the world in… Junk Burger! Located on Calle José Abascal in Madrid, Junk Burger has acquired the comb of Best Burger Spain thanks to its Double Smashed Burger (240 gr.) devised by @doublecheeseburgerx2
In second place has been Berty's (Gijon) and the third prize has been for Frankie Burgers (Madrid).
Do you want to know the ten finalists? Here is the definitive list of the ten best hamburgers in Spain, among which is the one that will become the queen of them all.
LOMAN STATION (Ourense, Galicia)
Anxo Canal and Juan Varela have turned the hamburger concept on its head, transforming it into "a joint creative expression of top quality artisan and organic products and understood as a healthy and wholesome dish”.
As they themselves state, "If you keep associating a hamburger with 'fast food' or 'junk food' it's because you haven't visited La Estación de Loman yet" and it is that this establishment has achieved get away from fast food to offer an irresistible fast good.
Its candidate, the 'Burcalomanburguer', is made with thermal potato bread with pickled mayonnaise with gherkin and paprika from Herbón peppers, grilled aged beef, mashed potato crunch, ribeye bacon and white cheddar Kerrygold cheese. Will the Galician hamburger be the winner?
The Burcalomanburguer of the Loman Station.
BERTY'S (Gijon, Asturias)
“Thanks to the trips we have made all over the world, we have managed to find the recipe that best suits Berty's, with which we try to convey that in a good hamburger 'what is good, if it is brief, is twice as good'”, they comment from Berty's.
Your candidate and finalist for the Spanish Hamburger Championship? The Dry Aged Burger , a hamburger that takes with them since its inception with food trucks in the year 2016, Although it has evolved over the years. Finally, Berty's has won the second prize.
Berty's Dry Aged Burger.
HDH (Bilbao, Basque Country)
The best hamburger in Bilbao –and in all of Spain?– is in HDH and it's called umami . Its ingredients? Grand reserve beef, undercooked to preserve its quality to the maximum; caramelized onion with port, specially selected cheese, baby sprouts, homemade gloucester sauce, and walnut brioche bread made daily and exclusively for this wonder.
In the letter they warn that "Modifications are not allowed in this hamburger" (and they do not lack reasons).
HDH's Umami Burger.
PUMP HOUSE (Vielha, Lleida)
The one chosen as the best hamburger in all of Catalonia is called Escornaburger and they make it at Casa Bomba with: 250 grams of beef, oak leaf, tomato, caramelized onion, goat cheese and blueberry jam.
The Escornaburger from Casa Bomba.
JUNK BURGER (Madrid)
Madrid places two hamburgers among the ten finalists. One of them is the one presented junk burger from the hand of @doublecheeseburgerx2 : the Double Smashed Burger (240 gr.), which has won the first prize in the contest!
Alert, just by reading its description, you will start to salivate: Galician blond cow matured and seasoned with a daily elaboration process, accompanied by four slices of cheddar cheese and a crispy smoked bacon from the Sierra de Madrid ; dripping with our secret Junk sauce and wrapped in the brioche @juanitobaker1.
Double Smashed Burger from Junk Burger.
FRANKIE (Madrid)
The other candidate from Madrid – winner of the third prize – was the Super Frankie Cheese, that you can savor at Frankie Burgers. As they themselves say, “Super Frankie Cheese has all the goodness of Frankie Cheese Bacon for two”: 250 grams of meat, double cheddar, double bacon and Frankie sauce.
“The secret of our burgers is that they are totally homemade, we make them daily by hand with 100% beef, are 'guarded' in a fluffy and delicate brioche bread and accompanied by natural smoked bacon and a high-altitude national cheddar cheese, ”says Frankie.
The Super Frankie Cheese from Frankie Burgers.
HUNDRED (Valencia)
Valencia has also managed to get two of its burgers to compete in the grand final. “Hundred was born from a trip through 22 countries and 3 continents, in which we learned the secrets of the true heroes of this” , they comment.
Thus, they created Hundred as a tribute and reflection of all those burger joints that inspired them, with the idea of concentrate the hundred best burgers in the world in one, yours.
Its jewel in the crown and candidate to become the best hamburger in Spain? The Paul Finch (which was already awarded as the Best Burger in Spain in 2021 for Joe Burgerchallenge). Carries 200 grams minced Berrenda cow steak matured by dry aging for 90 days, wagyu jerky, cherrywood cold-smoked cheddar, charcoal-smoked butter, and egg yolk sauce. All of this wrapped in a artisan demi brioche bread, kneaded, doubly fermented and baked daily by us.
Hundred's Paul Finch Burger.
RAFF'S (Valencia)
The other Valencian finalist is called Raff's Special, “Mix of meat, cheddar cheese, crispy bacon, onion rings and beef toffee sauce on brioche bread”. The image speaks for itself.
Raff's Special Burger.
BURGER FOOD PORN (Seville, Andalusia)
we go until Andalusia to know the Grandma Dry Aged, Burger Food Porn candidate, whose ingredients are: 250 grams Galician T-bone steak matured for 120 days in our Dry Aged chambers, Own recipe butter-based brioche bread, well-melted cheddar aged for 8 months, Bacon macerated in 1906 Reserva beer (Estrella Galicia) and our most delicate sauce made with the marrow of the chop for 2 days (which we have previously cleaned).
The Andalusian finalist: Abuela Dry Aged.
THE KITCHEN 62 (Ibiza, Balearic Islands)
We have a new excuse – another – to travel to Ibiza: the oxtail burger from The Kitchen 62, made with 200gr. Dry Aged Galician blond beef, beef tail, Old Gouda and apple.
The candidate of The Kitchen 62 (Ibiza).
Which one of them will be the winner? Next March 9th we will find out!