Best burger in Spokane region that isn’t Hudson’s?

The burger – beloved, satisfying, comforting – is quintessential American food.

The building blocks are fairly simple: juicy ground beef sandwiched between two halves of a bun.

Then the fun starts.

It could remain a simple sandwich, a humble hamburger, with standard add-ons: mustard, ketchup, pickles.

Or, it could become a well-dressed multilayered creation, elevated, almost, to fine dining, with all kinds of accoutrements – from caramelized onions, sauteed mushrooms, bacon and avocado to egg and cheese – sliced, fried, crumbled, melted into a sauce.

From a few fast-food menus to gastropubs and restaurants, here are seven scrumptious burgers, plus a handful of honorable mentions.

This isn’t a definitive list by any means, and it’s completely unscientific. But, it’s a roundup of a few local favorites. How many of them have you tried?/ Adriana Janovich, SR More here.