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Filipino-American Burger Restaurant Amboy Is No. 9 In The World

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<p>Filipino-American chef <strong>Alvin Cailan&#x27;s</strong> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amboy_qualitymeats/tagged/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Amboy Quality Meats &amp; Delicious Burgers</strong></a> has just been <strong>ranked the ninth-best burger restaurant in the world</strong>.</p><p>The Los Angeles restaurant landed at <strong>No. 9 on the 2026 World&#x27;s 101 Best Burger Places</strong>—the global ranking from Upper Cut Media House, the London-based hospitality organization behind the World&#x27;s Best Steakhouses list. Amboy joins an elite group of burger restaurants that includes Bleecker in London, Gasoline Grill in Copenhagen, Hawksmoor in London, and Nowon in New York.</p><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17803018416744.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner">Amboy&#x27;s is the 9th best burger in the world | Photo: Amboy Quality Meats &amp; Delicious Burgers</span></span></span></div><p>For burger obsessives, Cailan is already a familiar name. He founded <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eggslut/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eggslut</a>, the egg sandwich concept that became a global cult brand with locations across the US, UK, and Asia. Then he served as head chef of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/umamiburger/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Umami Burger</a>, and hosted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAzrgbu8gEMJe0ZOKPLRgEc-sp4cLmtz6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First We Feast&#x27;s <em>The Burger Show</em> on YouTube</a>, which has logged over 50 million views. He is, by most accounts, one of the most prominent Filipino food champions in America.</p><p>Amboy takes its name from a Filipino-American slang term used in reference to Cailan’s own experience growing up.</p><p>It’s a word many Filipinos know well: amboy, shorthand for “American boy,” a nickname often used for Filipinos raised abroad. It is a term Cailan has spoken about in describing his own experience growing up between Filipino and American cultures. He later used it as the title of his 2020 cookbook, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amboy-Recipes-Filipino-American-Alvin-Cailan/dp/1328931730" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream</em></a> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and built his Los Angeles restaurant around the same identity. </p><p>His burger joint reflects this duality. The burgers, with their carefully sourced beef and smashed patties with deeply caramelized edges, house-developed buns, pickles, melted cheese, sauces engineered for balance—have made Amboy one of the essential burger stops in LA..</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DY7X_LvD9XD/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1080&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A475019%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="875" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>Filipinos don&#x27;t need to fly to California to taste it. Cailan opened <a href="https://www.instagram.com/burgersbyalvincailan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Greenlight Burgers</a> at West Gallery Place in BGC in November 2025, his first restaurant in the Philippines. It has been selling out daily since.</p><p>Amboy used to just be a word for Filipinos caught between two worlds. Now it refers to one of the world’s highest-ranked burger restaurants.</p><div><br/></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/amboy_qualitymeats/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><strong>Amboy Quality Meats &amp; Delicious Burgers</strong></em></a><em><strong></strong>, Los Angeles, is ranked No. 9 on the 2026 World&#x27;s 101 Best Burger Places. </em><a href="https://www.instagram.com/burgersbyalvincailan/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><strong>Greenlight Burgers by Alvin Cailan</strong></em></a><em><strong></strong> is at West Gallery Place, Bonifacio Global City.</em></div>

<p>Filipino-American chef Alvin Cailan's Amboy in Los Angeles has been ranked the No. 9 burger restaurant in the world, putting a proudly Filipino-named brand among the global burger elite while giving Filipinos another reason to visit his Manila outpost, Greenlight Burgers in BGC.</p>

Filipino-American chef Alvin Cailan's Amboy in Los Angeles has been ranked the No. 9 burger restaurant in the world, putting a proudly Filipino-named brand among the global burger elite while giving Filipinos another reason to visit his Manila outpost, Greenlight Burgers in BGC.

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Troy Barrios

Published May 29, 2026 04:30 PM PHT

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Updated June 02, 2026 10:07 AM PHT

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