Kicking things off with a burger sans meat, this vegan restaurant absolutely deserves its place and proves a burger doesn't need to be all beef to work. If you have recently jumped onto the plant-based band wagon, but desperately miss the taste of a smash burger (and who could blame you) then The Saucy Cow is about to be your new best friend. The Groovy-chick-inspired fast food spot only deals in all things meat-free and dairy-free, but you'd never know it from looking at their food, which mimics the greasy burger vibe seamlessly. Using the increasingly popular beyond meat, you can have your takeaway burger and eat it too, all without biting into a cow.

While beef burgers are the go-to, when the craving for a chicken burger hits you like a hole in the head (Sugababes style) you can do nothing but fulfil that craving, and we have the perfect spot to do so. As the old joke goes, the only reason anyone tries to traverse the perils of the Walkinstown Roundabout is to try and get to Cluck Chicken, purveyors of some of the finest chicken burgers and loaded fries in Dublin. The team of cluckers do a bang-up job serving some of the best chicken burgers in the land, heavy on the sauce, big on flavour, these burgers will keep you full for roughly 48 hours. They are also constantly reworking and tweaking their menu, and each and every month they do a monthly burger special which typically pushes every imagined burger boundary.

Few boozers have hit the ground running quite like The Storyteller which opened up where Becky Morgans used to be back in January 2023. Whilst being a new hub for the local area and a go-to spot for the tech heads that work nearby, the spot has become a great spot for some solid pub grub, and the burger offering is no short of saliva-inducing. The burger is made up of half steak and half mince to maximise tenderness and juiciness, giving it the Hannah Montana best of both worlds, topped with flavoursome Bordelaise onions, melted farmhouse cheddar, some green pepper and a smooth dijon mayo. You’ll remember this one.

A couple of years ago, Bunsen entirely changed the food scene in Dublin (definitely for the best). By pairing things back to their most simple, and printing their entire menu printed on a business card, they turned the tide on overly sauced and topped burgs. The team at Bunsen know what they are at, even going as far as to cook your burg to order- absolutely no messing there. It takes a lot for us to include a chain on one of these lists, but by god does Bunsen deserve to be there? We think it's up there with certain burger chains in the States, the kind of joint other cities are praying will open on their streets one day.

Like with everything they do, the team at Featherblade put a lot of time and ingredients into getting their now classic-burger juuuust right. Sometimes referred to as "Dublin’s best burger" their burg is exceptionally well-balanced, it also comes in at a marvellous price point when you take in the quality of ingredients, the level of service and the ambience. If you can bring yourself to forfeit the steak on your next visit, you won't regret opting for the burger instead.

In the seven years that BuJo has been flipping burgers, they have quickly become a much-mentioned spot, and with a Culinary Director with as much experience as Gráinne O'Keefe behind them, it's no wonder they're taking the number two spot on this list. This Sandymount institution has thankfully flapped its wings and landed in another location, Terenure. Made fresh to order using quality grass-fed beef, you can really taste the smoke on these patties. There's a hellova lot of thought that goes into each and every order here from the well-seasoned chips to the perfectly creamy American shake.

Few menu items have held such a choke-hold on the good people of Dublin quite like Dash Burger has, from news of its opening which was carried from greasy mouth to whispering ear, to the new menu which is transported by similar means. This burger is the undefeated winner of the best burger in Dublin by a country mile and we have no doubt that it would take a lot of knock it off its lofty pedestal- that or if George Motz decides to relocate from NY to Dublin. A patty that's been scraped from the flattop, onions that have been crushed into its centre topped with melted cheese and just the right amount of pickles all served on a potato bun- it'll blow all the burgers before it out of your memory.