Emmy Burger
The burger from sister restaurant Emily that the world copies: two dry-aged beef patties cooked medium-rare, Emmy sauce of gochujang and Kewpie mayonnaise, caramelised onions, American cheese and dill pickles on a light pretzel bun. Sweet heat, deep beef and sharp pickles in one bite.
The story
The Emmy Burger was created at Emily, the West Village restaurant of Emily and Matthew Hyland’s Pizza Loves Emily group in New York. Its pairing of dry-aged beef with a sweet, spicy gochujang sauce, caramelised onions and pickles on a pretzel roll became so influential that critics now see echoes of it on burger menus worldwide, and in 2026 The World’s Best Burgers ranked it sixth in the world.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Emmy Burger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and cheese
Burger Sliders - Shares beef and cheese
Big Mac Taco - Shares beef and cheese
Big Mac Hot Dog - Shares beef and cheese
Croissant Big Mac
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Emmy Burger.- Killer Burger · beef, cooked onions and cheese
Classic - White Castle · beef, cooked onions and cheese
SignatureCheese Slider - RocoMamas · beef, cooked onions and cheese
SignatureRockstar - Hopdoddy Burger Bar · beef, cooked onions and cheese
Doddy Melt
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About Emmy Squared
Emmy Squared belongs to the Pizza Loves Emily family of restaurants, founded by Emily Hyland and chef Matthew Hyland, with partners Howard Greenstone and Ken Levitan. The family’s restaurant Emily, in New York’s West Village, made its name with pizza and with a burger: the Emmy Burger, a double stack of dry-aged beef with a gochujang sauce on a pretzel bun, which became one of New York’s most talked-about burgers.
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