New York City
The burger index
In September 2024, we began posting and ranking every burger in NYC on our personal Instagrams. By October 2025, we became known for our burger rankings to our friends, colleagues, and people from high school we hadn’t seen in 10 years, so we decided to start posting Brotherly Burgers.
A huge thanks to Blackbird (use code bb-2yfzjw if you sign up) as we already loved burgers, but joining Burger League Season 1 took our love to the next level. Our goal is to be as known for burgers as Portnoy is for pizza, with hopefully less controversy, more authenticity, and more trust behind our rankings and taste. We’re 103 burgers in and don’t plan to stop anytime soon.
The Top 10
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Hall of Fame
Priority Queue
On the map →The next 20 burgers we plan to rank, in order. When we rank one, it comes off this list.
- 1BK JaniBushwick, Brooklyn
- 2Wild CherryWest Village
- 3Flat Out BurgerLower East Side
- 4Danny'sFlatiron
- 5Lantern's KeepMidtown
- 6Cafe KestrelRed Hook, Brooklyn
- 7Donovan'sWoodside, Queens
- 8Lovely's Old FashionedHell's Kitchen
- 9Golden DinerTwo Bridges
- 10Harlem ShakeHarlem
- 11Frita BatidosWilliamsburg, Brooklyn
- 12Little GrenjaiBed-Stuy, Brooklyn
- 13Emily BrooklynClinton Hill, Brooklyn
- 14Old Town BarFlatiron
- 15Gallaghers SteakhouseMidtown
- 16Keens SteakhouseMidtown
- 17Crane ClubHudson Yards
- 18Superiority BurgerEast Village
- 19Win Son BakeryEast Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- 20BalthazarSoHo
Two brothers who actually ate them.
One canonical score per burger, on a demanding scale. We usually pay our own way, and we never accept payment or a free burger in exchange for a ranking.
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