Restaurant
Louis' Lunch
New Haven, Connecticut
The tiny lunch spot that claims to be the first to serve a hamburger, cooked vertically in cast-iron broilers.
- Cost
- Paid
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 45 min
Louis' Lunch opened as a lunch wagon in 1895 and says it served America's first hamburger. The burgers are cooked in vertical broilers and served on toast, and the tradition is no ketchup. It is a small, plain room near Yale.
Good to know
- No ketchup tradition
- Check days and hours before visiting
- Cash and card accepted
- Best time
- Weekday lunch
- Open
- All year, check closed days
- Getting there
- Street parking in New Haven
- Vehicles
- No campervans
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