56 countries, 394 cities and no less than 650 hamburgers. This is the major challenge of the ranking The World’s Best Burgers, which since 2012 have been published the swedes by Burgerdudes.
A hamburger pilgrimage that has already spanned eleven years and that for once first places a Spanish hamburger restaurant in the top 10. We could say that The World’s Best Burgers is to hamburgers what The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is to haute cuisine.
And, curiously, in this case we come across a ‘daughter’ of Mercadona. Not because the meat is from the Valencian chain. Neither because the hamburger is owned by Juan Roig, but because Hundred Burgers, which was already chosen as the best hamburger in Spain in 2018 and 2020, It has a lot to do with Mercadona.
Mainly because it took off thanks to the program Shuttlea business and startup incubator that Mercadona makes available to innovative projects. In this case, Hundred Burguers (Carrer de Misser Mascó, 22), the project of a couple of friends (Álex González and Ezequiel Maldjian) who began to travel around New York to discover the best hamburgers in the city as a result of a ere and d
The idea continued to grow and they decided to do the same in other cities such as London, Paris, Los Angeles, Dubai or Buenos Airesuntil they decided to take the plunge and turn all that hamburger baggage into their job.
Thus they founded Hundred Burgers, a hamburger restaurant in the heart of Valencia, which has managed to win third place for the jury of The World’s Best Burgers with a hamburger that admires “the harmony of the whole, the power of the flavor of Galician blonde cow meat and the texture of your demibrioche bread”.
The merit is also that his bronze is only eclipsed by two burger titans such as Pizza Loves Emily from New York and Burger and Beyond from London, which were already first and second in 2022.
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In this case, the irony is that the award has been reached with the burger loser (loser in English), which does not seem too loser if we consider that it has ousted more than 640 hamburgers. Made with cheddar cheese, caramelized onion and gochujang sauce, the Loser is one of Hundred’s star burgers.
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