12 Coachella Valley Restaurants for a Great Burger

Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Burger.

Explore the full list of 2025 winners across all 29 categories at the link below.

The next round of voting opens in April 2026.

Palm Springs

Smokin’ Burgers & Lounge

The Awesome burger lives up to its name, topped with a house blend of jalapeño and cheddar cheese, onion straws, bacon, and barbecue sauce. 

Desert Hot Springs

Dillon’s Burgers & Beers

Dillon’s BBQ Cheeseburger is a bundle of juicy beef, oozing cheese, thick-cut bacon, and tangy barbecue sauce. Pair it with tots, fries, or slaw. 

Cathedral City

Tony’s Burgers

The Frankenstein Burger, made with a 6-ounce Black Angus chuck patty, gets smeared with garlic aioli and stacked high with crispy bacon, grilled onions, and Boursin cheese. 

Rancho Mirage

Burgers & Beer

The Pancho, named after the cook who created it, is smothered with beans, chopped tomatoes, chiles, onions, and chorizo. 

Palm Desert

Grill-A-Burger

The Devil’s Revenge is a fiery combo of serrano chiles, chipotle onions, pepper jack cheese, bacon, Sriracha mayo, chipotle ketchup, and the ominously named Spontaneous Combustion Habanero Pepper Relish. 

Indian Wells (Tied)

Eureka!

The Fresno Burger comes with fig marmalade, goat cheese, bacon, tomato, arugula, red onion, and spicy mustard. 

Kestrel: A Richard Blais Kitchen + Lounge

The Blais Smash Burger is a double delight of two Angus patties, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and Catalina sauce. 

La Quinta

RD RNNR

Load up the build-your-own RD Burger with toppings like blistered jalapeño, lamb chili, or short ribs.

Indio (Tied)

Papa Headz

The signature smashburger keeps it classic: meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and Thousand Island dressing, or spice it up with crunchy jalapeño rounds.

POM

The menu at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino restaurant includes just one burger, but it’s all you need: a half-pound beef patty with cheese, lettuce, onion, and tomato on a brioche buttered bun. 

Indio Taphouse

The Taphouse Cheeseburger — lettuce, pickles, special sauce, and raw or grilled onions — pairs nicely with more than 120 beers at this downtown watering hole. 

Coachella

Seven Feathers (formerly Café 54)

Gourmet burger options at the Augustine Casino restaurant tempt with hot and spicy combinations. Try the Diablo Burger with habanero cheese and bacon jelly on a jalapeño bun.