The Best Burgers in Paris, Texas

Burgerland is a small stand on North Main with an L-shaped counter, a row of bar stools, and seating outside for when the counter fills up. Its own site leads with the claim that readers voted it number one for burgers and fries eight years running in the Paris News readers' poll, and the local record backs up a repeat win rather than a one-off.

The fries are the tell. They are cut in house rather than poured from a bag, which is the single clearest line between a burger stand that means it and one that does not. You order at the counter, you watch the patty hit the griddle a few feet away, and that is the whole experience.

Opened in 2024 by Tara and David Brown in a building that used to be an automotive shop. The Paris News profiled them in February 2026, and the story explains the decor, which is not generic diner kitsch. It started with the sign off the back of Tara's parents' grocery store in Deport and grew from there.

The patties are pressed by hand daily and the fries are cut fresh, same as at Burgerland, and pinto beans come with the order. The headliner on the menu is the Superman, a double meat double cheese burger. It sits second here only because Burgerland has a decade of local votes behind it and this place has had two years.

Jaxx occupies adjoining buildings in a commercial block put up in 1916, after the fire that March burned most of downtown Paris to the ground. Authentic Texas calls it a burger aficionado's dream and notes that everything is made fresh to order, which you can watch from the bar.

It is the widest burger menu in town by a distance, with blue cheese and other topping combinations that neither North Main stand attempts, plus onion strings instead of the usual rings. This is the one to pick if somebody in your group wants a burger and somebody else wants a salad or a sandwich.

107 opened in 2014 in a downtown building that came close to being demolished, and it was built on the model of the beer gardens in South and Central Texas. The burger list is not an afterthought bolted onto a bar menu. The beef is fresh ground Angus, hand-pattied, and the kitchen runs versions like a garlic cheese curd burger alongside the plain cheeseburger.

What it wins on is the pairing. Nowhere else in Paris puts a hand-made burger next to a hundred-plus beer list and a patio, and on a Friday evening that combination is the reason to pick it over a burger stand that closes at eight.

Corner Cafe is a farm-to-table restaurant that happens to make a very good burger, not a burger joint, and we have ranked it accordingly. It sits on the plaza looking at the Culbertson Fountain, sources produce from growers around Lamar County, and lets you build the burger step by step, including a range of bun choices.

It earns its place here on one practical thing the burger stands cannot match. If somebody in your party eats gluten-free, this is the kitchen in Paris that has actually thought about it, and the room is pleasant enough that a burger does not feel like a compromise.

A neighborhood pub out on the loop, trading since 2005, and the one place in Paris where the burger is not beef unless you ask for beef. The buffalo burger is the house item, and bison is leaner than ground chuck, so it eats differently and cooks faster.

Everything else about it is a bar rather than a restaurant, which is the reason it is ranked here and not higher. Large outdoor patio, live music some weekends, wings and fish and chips on the same menu.

Primarily a breakfast and lunch room, and that is what it is best at, but the lunch menu runs burgers and sandwiches alongside the chopped steak. It is the cheapest sit-down burger downtown and the fastest one if you are on a work break.

Nobody is claiming this is a destination burger. It is the honest answer to a specific question, which is where to get a decent burger downtown at noon on a Tuesday without spending twelve dollars.