The best burgers in Greater Manchester

For the longest time, Burger King and McDonald’s had it all sewn up. Back then, the thought of an onion ring actually inside the burger would have been met with sharpened pitchforks and nationwide protests.

No longer. The burger renaissance arrived, and now we want our patties smashed to pieces, layered to four times the height of a Big Mac, and virtually impossible to eat without a bale of kitchen roll in easy grabbing distance.

The game has changed indeed, and if your burger isn’t heaped with candied bacon or crisps, is it even really a burger anymore? Anyway, here are the best in all of Greater Manchester.

Almost Famous

Almost Famous had queues snaking through the Northern Quarter with its first secret shebeen up the stairs on High Street way back in 2012. It’s since expanded, with a spot in the Great Northern and another in the NQ, not to mention branches in Liverpool and Leeds. Brash and braggadocious, its stacked burgers can induce the meat sweats at 40 paces, and long may they reign.

49-51 Edge St, Manchester M4 1HW and Unit 2, Great Northern, Peter St, Manchester M3 4EN

Burgerism

Originally serving up from a factory unit in Salford, Burgerism is quickly becoming the city’s go-to homegrown burger, now with a dark kitchen in Ardwick and its first standalone shop in Gatley too. They’re straight up, no frills affairs; single double, cheese, with bacon, veggie or all of the above, and they’re all the better for not being simple but devastatingly effective. The wings and chicken burgers are also ludicrously good.

18 W Ashton St, Salford M50 2XS or 7 Stonepail Rd, Gatley, SK8 4EZ

That Burger Place

Born in Swinton, cult burger flippers That Burger Place, founded by chef Ryan McDermott, have modelled their