Cheeseburger

Denver says it got here first: Louis Ballast put cheese on a burger at his Humpty Dumpty Barrel drive-in on Speer Boulevard in 1935 and tried to trademark the name. Today's best are at old bars and burger joints, often with a scoop of green chile on top.

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Steuben's – Uptown

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An Uptown restaurant on 17th Avenue doing American regional cooking. For the Denver order, get the Green Chile Cheeseburger, with Hatch chiles and American cheese on a brioche bun. If you'd rather have a smash burger, the Crunch Burger comes with griddled onions, pickles and special sauce on a pressed bun.

523 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80203

Green Chile Cheeseburger

My Brother's Bar – 15th & Platte

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Denver's oldest bar: there's been a saloon at 15th and Platte since 1873, under one name or another. The burgers come wrapped in wax paper. Order the JCB, a burger topped with jalapeño cream cheese.

2376 15th St, Denver, CO 80202

JCB (jalapeño cream cheese burger)

The Cherry Cricket – Cherry Creek

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The Cherry Creek burger bar people send visitors to. You pick a patty (beef, bison, turkey and more), then work down a long checklist of toppings; the classic move is a cheeseburger with green chiles on it. Every month there's a new special burger, too.

2641 E 2nd Ave, Denver, CO 80206

Cricket burger with green chiles

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