Best Burgers in Groningen: Student City Guide

The best burgers in Groningen are in the compact city centre: around the Grote Markt and the Vismarkt, along Folkingestraat, and on the bar streets of Poelestraat, Peperstraat and Oosterstraat. Everything sits within a ten-minute cycle, so you can compare several kitchens in one evening.

Groningen is a university city before anything else. The University of Groningen was founded in 1614, and its students set the rhythm: quick meals, late evenings and a bicycle parked outside every door. The province brings its own condiment to the table. Groninger mustard is coarse and sharp, made from black mustard seeds, and it is the base of the region’s famous mustard soup. A kitchen that pairs it with a beef patty is using a local ingredient, not a supermarket squeeze bottle.

Burgers in Groningen: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Grote Markt, Vismarkt, Folkingestraat, Poelestraat, Peperstraat and Oosterstraat in the centre; the Zernike campus in the north for daytime eating.
• Local specialty: Groninger mosterd, a coarse black-seed mustard, and Groninger metworst, a dried sausage.
• Snack culture: Dutch snack bars sell patat with mayonnaise, kroketten and frikandellen, often alongside a burger.
• Getting around: the 1977 traffic circulation plan split the centre into sectors that cars cannot cross directly, so cycling or walking is quickest.
• Currency: euro (EUR), as everywhere in the Netherlands.
• What our guides check: that each venue is open, its full street address, a dated menu price and the burger it is known for.

Every guide we publish on Groningen is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. To compare with other cities, browse our burger restaurant guides by city.