Before we leave this summer subject for more upscale pursuits, we thought a final bit o’ burger love was in order. Ever the iconoclasts, the staff at ELV disdains top ten lists as hackneyed, trite, banal and boring. Therefore our final four* top hamburger/cheeseburgers in town are (in no particular order):

>The Bobby Baldwin sliders at FIX (FYI: sister restaurant STACK in the Mirage does mini-burgers just as well);

>The Double-Double at In-N-Out Burger;

>Hubert Keller’s $8.95 Ridgefield Farm Burger at Burger Bar in the Mandalay Bay – that we prefer to his slightly more expensive Black Angus burger and waaay more expensive Kobe (really Wagyu) beef burger ($16.50);

>StripBurger’s beautiful basic cheeseburger.

Honorable mention goes to the following for generally superlative treatment of this honorable sandwich: Palm, Island Burger, Country Club Grill at Wynn, Mesa Grill (because my buddy Al Mancini says so), BLT Burger (whose offerings may leapfrog many of these choices once it gets its service act together-go here to read Mancini’s review); White Castle‘s frozen twelve pack of jalapeno cheeseburgers (when you can find them), and, as my final two: L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon (the ultimate/exaltation/celebration of mini-burgerhood – replete with Wagyu beef and foie gras on a house made brioche bun….but bring money); and the onion burgers at the Skyline Casino in Henderson** – now there’s a couple of joints with a lot in common!

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* avid ELV readers know that Bradley Ogden‘s Bar Burger (see prior post) will always be #1 in our hearts and on our palates.

** many thanks to uber-attorney Dennis Kennedy for introducing me to these delicioso low-brow burgers years ago.