Restaurants & Dining
Top 10 Best Burgers in Myrtle Beach

DinoLand Cafe, a full-service dinosaur-themed restaurant with life-size animatronic dinosaurs, a lava mountain, and a flying dragon bar, is now here in Myrtle Beach.

Located in central Myrtle Beach, DinoLand Cafe is the perfect place for the entire family! DinoLand has a menu devoted to every appetite, including those that are mammoth-sized. They offer a wide selection of options for meat-eaters, including huge burgers, racks of ribs, and more.

The menu at Local on the Water features everything you could crave, from nachos to flatbreads and some of the best smash burgers in the area. Catch happy hour to get a deal on your dining. Keep your meal light with a delicious salad, or indulge in vacation mode and enjoy a delicious burger and a cold beer while listening to live music. If you’re at this restaurant early, check out their brunch, which features all the classic egg dishes plus a breakfast burger.

Duffy’s Tavern at The Bowery in Myrtle Beach offers fantastic burgers with inventive toppings to delight any appetite. Thanks to a menu featuring half-pound Angus burgers, a full-pound burger option, and black bean patty substitutes, no one will leave this local spot hungry. Stick to the classic cheeseburger or try a more creative option, like Jeff’s Fire Alarm Burger, which features hot peppers, hot sauce, and Swiss cheese, or the Big Daddy Trash Truck, which is loaded with condiments, chili, bacon, peppers, mushrooms, and two kinds of cheese. With eight options, there’s a good chance you’ll find the best hamburger in Myrtle Beach at this laid-back spot.

While Old Chicago is certainly known for its pizza, the burgers are still some of the best in Myrtle Beach. The handhelds at this restaurant include steak burgers smothered in BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese, or caramelized onions and beer cheese sauce. Each burger is made to order and served with fries, coleslaw, or veggies and dip. The beef patties can be subbed with a veggie patty and any sandwich can be prepared as “gluten-reduced.”

If burgers and fries are your go-to meal, the options at this attraction in Myrtle Beach won’t disappoint. Each charbroiled Angus steak burger is served on a toasted brioche bun. The menu includes burger choices smothered in cheese, topped with an egg, covered in sautéed mushrooms, and more. Dig in to refuel yourself for another round of bowling or before playing darts over drinks.

The 40,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Dave & Buster’s offers the very best in food, drink, and entertainment in an upscale, modern interior. The restaurant’s mouth-watering, chef-crafted menu combines fun and flavor in American fare with items from starters to handhelds and desserts. Dave & Buster’s is known for its combo of the best hamburger and beer in Myrtle Beach. Order any of their flame-grilled, 100% Angus Butcher’s Blend patties from the menu, or customize your choice by adding bacon, subbing in a plant-based patty, or changing to a gluten-free or lettuce bun.

National House of Pancakes is the perfect place to grab the most important meal of the day right here at the beach! This family-friendly location is the breakfast spot that offers a vast and expansive, brunch-like selection of foods such as crab meat omelets, biscuits and gravy, red velvet waffles, thick French toast, and of course, pancakes! But the flavor doesn’t stop there. The menu also features a Bacon Swiss, and a Cheeseburger, plus the best breakfast hamburger in Myrtle Beach: The Hidden Egg burger. All of these sandwiches shine even with a menu packed with delicious items, like crab cake Benedicts, shrimp and grits, banana and pecan pancakes, and churro waffles.

Serving up famous DQ Blizzards and hot burgers straight from the grill, the two Myrtle Beach area Dairy Queen locations offer the “fan food” you know and love. Whether you’re craving a burger and fries or a sweet treat, Dairy Queen Grill and Chill has you covered. Guests can choose hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, and other items from the grill. 

Finish your lunch with something sweet, like a Blizzard (signature DQ soft serve blended with candies or other tasty ingredients), soft-serve ice cream cones, sundaes, and royal treats, which include banana splits, parfaits, and more!

This national chain boasts the “World’s Greatest Burgers,” and it’s hard to disagree with the claim. Fuddruckers takes its burgers to a new level by baking its sesame buns and letting guests build the burger of their dreams using their favorite items from the restaurant’s produce bar, which is stocked with endless veggies, plus pickles, pico, and sauces. It’s one of a few burger places in Myrtle Beach that offer a selection of patties, from ⅓- to ⅔-pound beef to bison and elk burgers.

The Grumpy Monk in Myrtle Beach is a unique restaurant and bar that offers craft beer from around the country and quality sandwiches and burgers, plus sushi made fresh daily. The menu of burgers includes a classic cheeseburger, a bacon cheeseburger, a wing-and-burger combo, a guacamole burger, a dry-rub seasoned burger, an egg-topped hangover burger, and more. The Grumpy Monk has three locations on the Grand Strand to get your burger fix anytime.