Some of the best burgers in Nebraska come out of buildings you would drive past twice without slowing down. What matters is the sound: a ball of beef pressed onto a hot flat top, the hiss, the edges going brown and crisp at the rim.
That crust only happens when the patty meets the griddle after you order, not when it waits under a heat lamp. Six kitchens across the state still work that way, and each one handles it a little differently.
1. Dinker’s – Bar and Grill, Omaha, NE
Cash only. That one rule has governed this South Omaha corner since 1965, and it still trips up anyone who walks in reaching for a card.
Six decades of burger orders have crossed that counter…