Best Burgers in Daegu: Downtown and Suseong

For the best burgers in Daegu, start downtown on Dongseong-ro, the shopping streets of Jung-gu, then look east in Suseong-gu, around Suseong Lake and the restaurant strip known as Deurangil. In the north, the streets around Kyungpook National University add a student area with casual places to eat.

Daegu takes casual eating seriously. It presents itself as the home of chimaek, fried chicken with beer, and has held the Daegu Chimac Festival every summer since 2013, around Duryu Park. The city’s other specialties are makchang, grilled pork intestines; Dongin-dong jjimgalbi, beef short ribs braised with chilli and garlic; and napjak mandu, flat dumplings sold at Seomun Market. A burger here competes with all of them, so fried chicken burgers and spicy sauces are the local angle to look for. Daegu is also one of the hottest cities in Korea in summer, a fact locals joke about with the nickname “Daefrica”.

Burgers in Daegu: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Dongseong-ro, Suseong-gu and Deurangil, and the Kyungpook National University area.
• Local specialties: chimaek, makchang, Dongin-dong jjimgalbi and napjak mandu.
• When the city gathers: the Chimac Festival, held each summer since 2013.
• Getting around: three metro lines, including Line 3, an elevated monorail.
• Currency: South Korean won (KRW); our guides quote prices in won only.

Every guide we publish on Daegu is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. To compare with Seoul, Busan and other cities, open our burger restaurants section.