Best burger in the world?
Yeah, right.
Cue the commenters getting carried away “my burger joint is better than yours” rants.
Walk them past Fergbuger on the main street of New Zealand’s adventure capital of Queenstown, however, and the doubters might quickly turn into believers.
Colloquially known as “Ferg’s,” the burger joint is swollen with customers who spill out every opening hour, happy to wait around an hour at peak times for a feed.
And “peak time” describes most of the store’s 21-hour day.
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“It would have to take an extra special idea to entice us to go somewhere else.”
The closest thing to another Ferg’s is the opening of Fergbaker in 2011, a bakery next door that does a Kiwi favorite, the meat pie, proud.
For hungry visitors to Queenstown, this is the fallback when Fergburger crowd’s prove too big a mountain to climb.
Fergburger, 42 Shotover St., Queenstown Town Center; +64 3-441 1232; open 8:30 a.m.-5 a.m., daily except Christmas Day.
Recommended burgers: Little Lamby (Prime New Zealand lamb, mint jelly, lettuce, tomato, red onion, alioli, tomato relish), NZ$12.50 ($10) and Sweet Bambi (Wild Fiordland deer with a Thai plum chutney, lettuce, tomato, red onion, alioli).
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