Lucky 13

Lucky 13 builds large, loosely packed burgers with assertive toppings and a barroom sense of excess. Bacon, roasted chiles, blue cheese, and house sauces appear across the menu, while hand cut fries complete the plate. The 21 and over Ballpark tavern remains the flagship for a burger that is deliberately messy and substantial.

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The Ballpark bar is the outlier on this list, not a Greek-family stand but a kitchen that smokes its own pastrami. Salt Lake Magazine's burger tour says Lucky 13 knows what it is doing with the style and warns that it may spoil other burgers for you. Order the Smoked Pastrami and Swiss: a beef patty under hickory-smoked pastrami and melted Swiss.

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