Best Burger Restaurants in Melbourne

Melbourne's burger scene reflects the city's competitive food culture — a market where craft operators have pushed quality, creativity, and sourcing to levels that make the city's best burgers genuinely world-class. The smash burger phenomenon has arrived and thrived, but Melbourne also has excellent representations of the gourmet stacked burger tradition and several venues that approach the format with fine dining seriousness.

Easey's in Collingwood (famously situated on top of a converted tram) has long been a city landmark. Huxtaburger across multiple locations established the gourmet burger format in Melbourne. The Grill Americain in the CBD takes a more classical approach. Dandenong's Sri Lankan-influenced burger culture adds a fascinating local flavour to the city's broader burger conversation, and the inner-north suburbs have seen several excellent independent operators open in the past three years.