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Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce is the worst BBQ sauce imaginable, cloyingly sweet, it could turn anyone diabetic.

Giants used to play pre-season games in New Haven

I worked in a NJ Gino's back in the 70s. Burgers then were clones of Big Macs and Quarter Pounders we wrapped in plastic and put in hot boxes, yum.

SN Summerfest is an ale, by definition it's not a pilsner

Yep looks totally burnt, completely inedible, do yourselves a favor and never go there.

Al Buon Gusto was a classic red sauce joint, once saw John Madden tucking into a huge meal there in the 80s, a stones throw from the Dakota. Famous Rays of 6th Ave had a branch on the same block in the 80s as I recall, same doughy, cheesey stuff as the original.

I remember that article well, pored over it several times. Queen no longer serves pizza, after they went upscale they would only make it to go but they stopped entirely at least three years ago.

Mustard, pickles, sharp cheese

Resevoir Tavern in Parsipanny NJ was my Mom's favorite restaurant. Kind of bittersweet going there now, since she's gone more than 11 years

Zuppardi's

Afraid I have to give it a downhill mark, burger I had on Friday was ordered medium rare, came cooked medium-well, was noticeably smaller and was not listed on menu as grass fed, nor did it taste like grass fed. The bun was somewhat stale too, a real shame, this was a great burger.

Kenji: no doubt, just shipping from Due Buoi website at more than 50% of price makes me go ouch, of course you could throw in one of their $300 Stilettos and bring the ratio down a lot

As a lifelong NYer, my vote goes to LA, you get a bigger variety of quality burgers there at every price point