Another contender for the best burgers and other American food (including some good salads and other healthy options, which are hard to find in BJ) is the American Cafe, by the Blue Castle apartments.

almost embarrassed to admit it, but Hard Rock Cafe serves up a righteous burger. Sure you have to put up with all the american tourists and chinese hookers, but it's worth it.

They also have a really nice veggie burger.

Might try Grandma's ... when it first opened had a chat with Grandma herself who noted the secret of making good burgers... according to her, the cattle here are a bit lean, so she adds fat to the ground beef to make it juicier ... having said that, she's no longer slinging hash out back so I'm not sure they're still doing the burgers that way.

How about Sizzler? It's fast food, but hey, they might know a thing or two about meat.

I tried a few times, but I must have bad luck. I've never had a good hamburger in China, unless I just stay home and make it myself. All of the ingredients are here; the problem is that the natives don't quite understand the concept of a good hamburger. You just let it fry by itself, without poking at it a flipping it over a dozen time. Hamburgers aren't meant to be stir-fried.

However, China has the best French fries I've ever had. Find a Sichuan restaurant that has 'Gan Bian Tu Dou Tiao'. Deep-fried potato strips that are then stir-fried with spices and green onions and garlic. I just gotta remember to tell them to leave the numbing little Hua Jiao's out of it!

And feel free to take a bottle of ketchup with you. They won't have any there, and the staff will think you're nuts, but it's excellent. There are two restaurants near my school that I go to so often that the staff know me and they let me keep my ketchup bottles in their refrigerators, so I don't have to carry them around with me. THAT'S service!

Gotta say that the burgers at American Cafe were good before, but now with the help of the new foreign chef...WOW they were fantastic and very authentic. I think the Chef was a Canadian. Try em out! :!:

Its under the evolution gym in Blue castle, behind sunshine 100. I haven't back for a month but I know the food has improved since June(alot of my friends from Blue castle use to go there). Check it out.

i had seen a caucasian guy working there .... white, speaks good English (no weird accent), probably North American. American Cafe is an under-rated restaurant with decent food; but service is kinda slow there though.

Holy cow, something nice to say about Zing! Can anyone corroborate this?

BTW I like my burgers flat ... ie no taller than my jaws can open, so as to make taking a bite possible without wreakign havoc on the whole assembly

club football's double patty cheeseburgers are hot. Fries are no good though. Also have doube patty chicken burgers and one time we got a one patty chicken one patty beef burger by accident. Good stuff.

Or Honeybeeburger?

I'm actually partial to the bacon cheese burger at the Goose & Duck. The one at Joe's bar actually tastes a bit better, but the size is so tiny that you end up having to eat 2 of them to make up the one at the goose. And at rmb49 at Joe's (not counting cheese & bacon) vs rmb35 at the Goose (including cheese & bacon) I'd still rather have it at the Goose.

Try Mr. Lee's USA cafe, iits about 100 m north of the East exit of the Silk Market. On same road as the Blue Marine and Mexican Wave bars but other side of the road and about 50 m North. Excellent burgers, good price.
Mr Lee is Chinese but lived many years in Huston, plays US recorded radio station music.

My vote for best burger goes to Eudora Station. See thread here:

http://bbs.thatsbj.com/viewtopic.php?t=1167

went for a burger at Eudora Station yesterday -- as much as I wanted to hate the place (they royally screwed us on breakfast during our that's Beijing ski trip in December), I thought the burger was excellent. RMB 35 gets you a decent burger, fries and some cole slaw -- nice touch was that they don't charge extra if you want cheese on it.

Can't vouch for the other food but if its a burger you are after and you're in the Lido area, get the cheeseburger. Hell, it's not even that more expensive than a trip to Mickey D's ...