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The Burger Brackets: Voting for the Best Burger in Washington

When it comes to burgers these days, anything goes. In restaurants, you’ll find patties both miniature and supersized topped with everything from house-made ketchup to foie gras. In celebration of all the burgers our area has to offer, and to coincide with March Madness, we thought we’d try to narrow down all the options to find the ultimate best burger in town. Hence the feature we’ll be rolling out tomorrow: the Burger Brackets.

We’ve picked 32 of our favorite burger spots, and every day through the rest of March, we’ll be pairing off their creations, two by two, and asking you to vote on which of them is the best. The winner of each face-off will move on to the next round, until, towards the end of the month, we’ll have our reader-voted best burger in Washington.

So check back tomorrow for our first installment of the Burger Brackets—and get ready to vote for your favorites!

Related Links:

• Cheap Eats
• How to Build a Better Burger

 

Comments

ya gotta luv that Chadwick’s

Posted by: takita, Mar 27, 2009 03:59:53 PM

Um, where is Hell Burger?!?! How on earth did they get left off? Any conclusion drawn from this competition will lack credibility because Hell Burger was excluded. They make what many consider to be the best burger in the region - possibly the entire mid-atlantic, and some even think they may have the best burger of the entire East Coast. Who picked these places?! Shame on you!!!

Posted by: Burger Lover, Mar 11, 2009 04:12:57 PM

I was in the emergency room for 12 hours throwing up my guts after eating at Ray’s Hellburger. They definitely did a great job earning their name!

Posted by: Rose, Mar 04, 2009 10:41:50 AM

Why is Whitlows not on the list? They are my favorite.

Posted by: chrisT, Mar 04, 2009 08:12:54 AM

BLT!!

Posted by: Laura smiley, Mar 03, 2009 10:44:32 AM

I think we should do this next with pizza!!

Posted by: Vanessa, Mar 03, 2009 06:23:46 AM

I agree with Kevin. Ray’s Hell burgers are amazing. The Bison burgers at Ted’s Montana Grill are very good too.

Posted by: Burger King, Mar 02, 2009 08:12:06 PM

Z Burger rules the Universe of Burgers.

Posted by: George Orwell, Mar 02, 2009 04:32:23 PM

My vote is for the slider at Coco Sala. Can you believe a chocolate place would have the best burger in town?!

Posted by: Andrea, Mar 02, 2009 03:41:57 PM

This is so much fun! Can’t wait!!

Posted by: Emily, Mar 02, 2009 01:57:02 PM

@Kevin, don’t worry, we’ve got burger spots from all over the region. Check back tomorrow at 10 AM for our first face-off!

Posted by: Catherine (washingtonian.com), Mar 02, 2009 12:58:21 PM

can you expand the brackets to include northern virginia?? my favorite has been ray’s hell burger b/n courthouse and rosslyn...

looking forward to the first match-up tomorrow!

Posted by: kevin berardinelli, Mar 02, 2009 12:49:56 PM

The best burger I had in Washington was at Duke’s City on U street. They had a spicy chili burger that was to die for.

Posted by: Sarah, Mar 02, 2009 12:25:56 PM

west end bistro FTW!

Posted by: steve jobs, Mar 02, 2009 12:14:35 PM