These Astoria, Woodside Burgers Are Among Best In NYC: Ranking

ASTORIA, QUEENS — Two restaurants in northwestern Queens serve up some of the best hamburgers in the city, according to a recent ranking from Eater NY.

The new list names Jackson Hole, located at 6935 Astoria Boulevard North, and Donovan's Pub, located at 57-24 Roosevelt Avenue, as among the 27 restaurants serving up the city’s “juiciest, beefiest burgers.”

The Astoria and Woodside spots were the only in Queens that made the list, alongside one restaurant on Staten Island, 8 in Brooklyn, 15 in Manhattan, and one in New Jersey, which coincidentally got its start at 1936 World's Fair in Flushing, according to the list.

Eater describes Jackson Hole, “cryptically named” after the Wyoming ski destination, as a “streamlined chrome diner just west of LaGuardia Airport.”

They point out that the restaurant “was one of the pioneers of the metal-dome style of burger, in which especially thick patties are cooked under a metal bowl to ensure even cooking.”

Donovan's Pub, the burger-slash-Irish pub joint, makes a “quintessential pub-style burger” according to Eater.

The food site says that the “half-pound, loosely packed burger is cooked in a steak broiler to a nice char on the outside, making for a slightly smoky flavor, and served with tomato slices and lettuce on the side, as is conventional.”

The accolades from Eater come a week after two Astoria spots were ranked among the best for brunch in the city, and two weeks after a handful of northwestern Queens restaurants were named on a Michelin-vetted list of New York City's best spots for cheap eats.

You can check out the full Eater NY best burger spots list here.