Burgers starting with W

“The Italian shepherd”: beef with white sauce, grilled bacon, tomato-basil sauce, Grana Padano and rocket on a sesame bun.

Wagyu just means Japanese cattle, and it covers four native breeds whose fat is laid down inside the muscle rather than around it — the marbling that makes the meat behave differently from Western…

Wagyu means “Japanese cattle”, and the meat on this burger is the real Japanese thing: A5, the top grade in Japan’s beef grading system, from Kagoshima.

Wagyu means “Japanese cattle”, and in Japan the name is reserved for four native breeds born and raised in the country.

Black Tap opened as a small burger bar in SoHo in 2015 and built its reputation partly through competitions.

The house special: a marbled wagyu patty with Emmental, truffle mayo, sweet pepper relish, crispy onions and rocket.

A Hawaiian-style chicken burger: a fried chicken breast with bacon, grilled pineapple, lettuce, aioli, chipotle mayo and chilli sauce.

The veggie burger, named after woodruff, the woodland herb: a veggie patty with grilled mushrooms and cheese, plus iceberg lettuce, tomato, dill pickles, red onions and mayo.

An onion burger three ways: raw onion, grilled onion and fried onion strings, with cheddar, lettuce and spicy ranch on a single patty.

The Western Slope is everything in Colorado west of the Continental Divide — the orchards around Palisade, the ranch country, the part of the state that is not the Front Range where all the people…

Barbecue sauce, bacon and onion rings on a beef patty is a Southern Californian formula.

Carl’s Jr. introduced the Western Bacon Cheeseburger in the early 1980s, and it went on to become the chain’s most recognisable product.

The Western bacon burger, barbecue sauce, bacon and onion rings on beef, became a fast-food fixture through Carl’s Jr., which added its Western Bacon Cheeseburger to the menu in the 1980s.

Harmon Dobson opened a wooden stand in Corpus Christi in 1950 with a burger nobody else was selling: a quarter-pound patty on a five-inch bun at 25 cents, when a standard burger cost 15 and fitted in…

Whataburger first sold its Patty Melt as a limited-time item in July 2008: two beef patties, Monterey Jack, grilled onions and the chain’s creamy pepper sauce on its thick Texas Toast.

Whataburger was built on one burger: the 25-cent, quarter-pound Whataburger that Harmon Dobson started selling in Corpus Christi, Texas, in August 1950.

The Red Robin burger people try to recreate at home, and not by accident.

Garlic is not a seasoning in Korea so much as a food group — eaten raw with grilled meat, pickled, fermented black, and used in quantities that startle visitors.

James McLamore created the Whopper in 1957 after noticing that a rival restaurant in Gainesville was doing well selling oversized burgers.

This is the same burger as Burger King’s and it is sold under another name for a reason that ended up in court.

It exists because of a delivery that never arrived.

The Wimpy name has outlived its own country.

Swiss cheese on rye is not a random diner combination in Wisconsin, it is local history.

Everything, as the name promises: a smash patty with onions, melted cheese, bacon, a fried egg, pickles, burger sauce and tomato sauce.