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Restaurants

8 Landmark Spots Serving Up Classic Burgers

For 40 years or more, these restaurants have been fulfilling our burger cravings with smashburgers and thick burgers alike. Take a tasty trip through time with us, won’t you?

by Our State Staff
Restaurants

The Legacy of Greensburger Lives On

These grills and griddles have made Greensboro a burger town.

by Katie Kane
Restaurants

5 on the Flat-Top: Melvins’

This Elizabethtown landmark serves hamburgers and hot dogs. That’s it. For 74 years and counting.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Restaurants

5 on the Flat-Top: Nick’s Old Fashion Hamburgers

This Davidson County restaurant’s recipe for success: hand-pattied smashburgers, house-made chili, and locally sourced ingredients like pimento cheese.

by Drew Perry
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5 on the Flat-Top: Country Retreat Family Billiards

Locals gather at this unlikely Watauga County establishment to shoot pool — and to eat first-class chargrilled burgers known far and wide.

by Morgan Sykes
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5 on the Flat-Top: Little Bit’s Grill

In Oak Island in 1987, an ocean or two away from Vietnam, an immigrant found a second home for herself and her family by mastering a new, all-American cuisine.

by Sayantani Dasgupta
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5 on the Flat-Top: Concord Grill

This Person County restaurant may not look like much — that is, until a big, juicy thick burger dripping with freshly melted cheese comes through the takeout window.

by Debbie Moose
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Feeder of the Pack: Players Retreat in Raleigh

Over its 70 years, the Players Retreat has played many roles in Raleigh: hangout for NC State actors after performances, shrine to Wolfpack athletics, sports bar with a fine-dining pedigree. Plus, it serves a heck of a burger.

by T. Edward Nickens
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3 North Carolina-Inspired Burgers

That which we call a burger by any other name would taste as delicious. But the names of these burgers symbolize much more than what’s sandwiched between the buns.

by Our State Staff
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