Best Hamburguer in Costa Rica
Was scrolling through Reddit Ticos and found a couple of threads discussing the best hamburger in Costa Rica. Which to be fair actually meant the best hamburger in the GAM.
After finally getting my master's done, I had some time to nerd it out so I decided to overengineer it and write some code (i.e. prompt Claude) to analyze these Reddit threads and create a ranking based on upvotes.
| Rank | Restaurant | Most Popular Burgers | Locations | Upvotes | Key Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burga | Golden Bacon Doble, Umami | Rohrmoser, Escazú | 51 | "I think Burga, they're not grotesque with cheese and that kind of stuff, they have a normal size, good types and generally good ingredients. They also do incredible marketing and branding" |
| 2 | Charles BBQ | Oklahoma, HDP, La Rubia | Lindora (previously San Rafael de Alajuela) | 48 | "The best hamburger in this country is made by Charles BBQ and it's called Oklahoma, people need to stop believing that those messes with 30 layers of pork chops, chicharrón, fried cheese, egg, and everything except decent meat and bread are hamburgers" |
| 3 | Santería | Portobello | Curridabat, Cartago | 44 | "Santería yoooo" and "Santería is a flavor for sure" |
| 4 | ABGB | Special AB | Alajuela | 10 | "The best hamburger I've ever eaten is from ABGB restaurant in Alajuela" |
| 5 | RUA | Clásica, Monthly Special | San José (centro) | 4 | "Try going to RUA, they're awesome! They always have a special of the month and on Wednesdays they do 2-for-1 on the classic. 100% recommended" |
| 6 | GrillOut | Not specified | Heredia, Nunciatura, San Pedro | 3 | "I recently went to GrillOut in Heredia and it's the best I've tried lately" |
| 7 | KO's Burgers | Not specified | Heredia | 3 | "In Heredia definitely KO Burgers is really good" |
| 8 | Whats'on Burgers | Not specified | Ciudad Colón | 3 | "Whats'on Burgers in Ciudad Colón, they're normal size but sufficient, but the flavor of that hamburger is something else, smash style, with an incredible house sauce and they're not expensive" |
| 9 | Mayyis | Fire Deluxe | Cartago | 2 | "At Santería I love the Portobello. The Fire Deluxe from Mayyis is top." |
| 10 | La Calle | Not specified | Alajuela | 1 | "The best hamburger that exists in this country is at 'La Calle' in Alajuela" |