Ontario's Best Burger Joints Ranked

This is it!! Southern Ontario’s best burger joints ranked!! 

These joints are ranked based on everything they have to offer:

• Burger taste,
• Fries,
• Overall menu,
• Atmosphere,
• Price.

Try them all if you can.

Starting with the best!

#1.  The Works

Set up like a restaurant, has a great atmosphere, and has the overall best menu at any burger joint I’ve ever been to.  Top off all of that with locations across Ontario and we’ve got gem of a joint that is accessible to almost everyone.

#2.  Little Louie’sBurger Joint and Soupery

This place just does so many things right, that its flaws are easily overlooked.  It offers the second best menu of all the joints, and their limited hours of operation make it something you want even more, just because you can’t always have it.

#3.  Holy Chuck

Holy Chuck has the juiciest and most delicious burger by far on this list.  Somewhat limited menu and not so great atmosphere keep it from topping out list, but the burger is a must-try for everyone.

#4.  Five Guys Burgers and Fries

The U.S. chain proves it can compete with Ontario’s best.  Although the atmosphere is hospital-like and the menu is one of the leanest, great tasting burgers keep Five Guys out of the bottom of the list.

#5.  Royal Meats BBQ

Not so much a burger joint as it is a butcher shop; Royal Meats serves the freshest burgers you will find anywhere.  If they dedicated their business to burgers only, they could easily top our list.

#6.  Woody’s BurgerBar & Grill

This Etobicoke joint is the best in what I would call an upscale burger joint.  Great atmosphere, but long wait times and a break-apart bun stopped this place from making it out of the bottom half of the list.  I said in my review that I wouldn’t crave the burger again, but the atmosphere definitely makes me want to go back.

#7.  The Burger’sPriest

Considered one of Toronto’s best, they may need to step it up a bit in an ever more competitive market.  Too much cheese and overdone meat keeps this joint from fulfilling its destiny of having the best burger around.

#8.  Big Smoke Burger

Another disappointment from what is considered one of Toronto’s best.  Big Smoke Burger has great potential, but possibly the smallest burger on the list hold it back.  People will still talk about this joint as one of the best, but great atmosphere is clouding their judgment of the actual burger.

#9.  Magoo’s GourmetHamburgers

Magoo’s takes on a family atmosphere but keeps their image and overall quality targeted more towards children than adults.  Great fries keep this joint a rank above another that is eerily similar…

#10.  Lick’sHomeburgers and Fries

Lick’s is a sad story, a once great gourmet burger chain being outdone by new independent joints that are substantially raising the bar.  This may be on the bottom of our list, but it’s still a great joint.  Competition is fierce and it takes more than just good burgers to be the best.

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Lick's Homeburgers Review

Lick’s Homeburgers was the first place that I’ve been to that I really felt was a burger joint.  The love that the staff put into those burgers, the taste, the portions, it was all new and amazing to me.  Lick’s is a chain of restaurants and I questioned their inclusion on this list but I owed it to them.

 I’ve seen a few locations close down and every time it hurts a little.  Unfortunately, after being exposed to some of the other independent burger joints in Ontario, I can’t say that I’m surprised.

When you walk in Lick’s seems to have it all…Great selection of burgers, salads, poutine, chili, onion rings and desserts.  Menu is simple and there is definitely something for everyone.  There’s turkey, chicken, beef, and veggie burgers as well as carb-free options and even wrap versions of their burgers.

I ordered a burger and fries, after only a 3 or 4 minutes wait; you pick your toppings for your burger.  Slim pickings here, there’s only lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, and cucumbers.  They also have their own version of mayo called Guck sauce.  This stuff is amazing and I highly recommend it.  You can buy it at most grocery stores so you don’t necessarily have to go to Lick’s to get it.

The burger was a perfect size on a perfect toasted sesame bun.  Not enough people toast their buns!

The burger tasted great and I was definitely satisfied, but something about it was bland.  I think it may be the lack of toppings, but the burger was missing a wow factor that so many joints have.  It was just a typical burger.

Now for the worst of the worst I’ve had so far…the FRIES!  seriously…from frozen, tasted terrible, as if they microwaved left over McCain fries.  Stay away, get onion rings instead!

Prices are pretty good at only $5.49 for a burger.

Pros

·         Good value

·         Decent burger

·         Guck Sauce!!

Cons

·         Few toppings

·         just…nothing special

·         WORST FRIES!!

I hope one day when you’re driving around at lunch deciding between Wendy’s and McDonald’s, you’ll think of Lick’s and choose it instead.  At least buy Guck sauce to keep at home.

I had fond memories of Lick’s but I only feel one way now….Disappointed.

6.5/10