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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Best of Louisville (Louisville Magazine) and LEO Weekly. Updated August 2026.
Mussel & Burger Bar · Downtown
Best of Louisville 2025 Burger winner. The downtown room (with a Jeffersontown sibling) where the dry-aged patty and frites platter is the city's reflexive answer for a top-shelf burger night.
Toasty's Tavern · Shelby Park
LEO Weekly Readers' Choice 2024 Best Burger. Thick patty bigger than the bun, melted cheese, pickles, and house 'toasty sauce.'
bar Vetti · NuLu
LEO Weekly's NuLu crossover. Better known as Robin Garr's top Neapolitan pizzeria, but the house burger on the same short menu holds a place in his rotation.
Grind Burger Kitchen · NuLu
A food truck that became a NuLu storefront, grinding its beef fresh every day and building the Old Fashioned burger with Capriole goat cheese, bacon and bourbon onions. LEO covered the reopening after a break, which tells you how much the city had missed it. The fries are not an afterthought either.