In the quiet, tree-lined Linden Hills neighborhood of south Minneapolis, there is a burger joint that somehow feels like what would happen if a classic American diner took a long, romantic trip to Paris and never fully came back. 🇫🇷
Le Burger 4304 is a chef-owned French-inspired burger Minneapolis gem where wagyu beef smashed with griddled onions and a mustard-tamari wash, triple-cooked hand-cut fries, and burgers topped with foie gras and black truffle aioli come together in a colorful, wholly original space that has quickly become one of the most talked-about hidden gem burger joints in Minnesota.
How Le Burger 4304 Won Minneapolis’ Hearts
Chef Jonathan Gans and co-owner Josh Hoyt were the executive chef and director of operations, respectively, at The Bachelor Farmer — the celebrated, award-winning Scandinavia-meets-Midwest restaurant in Minneapolis’s North Loop that closed during the earliest days of COVID-19.
Free from the constraints of fine dining, the two began imagining something looser, more joyful, and more democratic — the kind of burger joint two Americans might open if they moved to Paris and fell in love with French culinary rigor but couldn’t stop craving a great cheeseburger…