24 Hours to Go to Decide Beijing's Best Burger

Michael Wester | Sep 26, 2014 5:30 pm | Add a comment | 3856 reads

The Beijinger's 2014 Burger Cup is rapidly drawing to a close, and there's only 24 hours left for you to select this year's champion: Is it going to the continuation of Home Plate's reign or will upstart Slow Boat topple them with their fry-laden creations? Meanwhile in the other remaining match, will it be Great Leap or the Big Smoke that takes the Bronze?

Vote here before tomorrow and join us Sunday night at Home Plate Bar-B-Que's Sanlitun location, where we'll be announcing the winner live at 9pm at Home Plate's win-or-lose party, to which they've invited their burger-slinging adversary Slow Boat. There will be happy hour drinks from 8 to midnight, there will be some burger giveaways of Home Plate's (1st or 2nd place) burgers, and you can also challenge your tastebuds by indulging in some Shitburgers courtesy of SmartBeijing.

Meanwhile, for those of you keeping score, here's our readers' 2014 rankings of the city's best burgers so far, prior to the settling of the Final Four:

5. The Local
6. Blue Frog
7. Plan B
8. Union Bar and Grille
9. Frost Coffee, Cocktails and Dining
10. Let's Burger

11. 4corners
12. Lily's American Diner
13. Temple Bar
14. Stuff'd
15. Lush
16. Biteapitta
17. Katchup
18. Flamme
19. Paddy O'Shea's
20. Burger Bar

21. Nola
22. Q Mex
23. Beer Mania
24. Migas
25. Morton's of Chicago
26. Tim's Texas Bar-B-Q
27. Windy City
28. The Irish Volunteer
29. Burgers & Beer
30. The Cut, Fairmont Beijing

31. The Kro's Nest
32. Rumi
33. 1F
34. Luga's Villa
35. The Den
36. The Box
37. Chef Too
38. Grinders
39. Grandma's Kitchen
40. Village Cafe, Opposite House

41. Main Street Bar and Restaurant
42. Laker's
43. Park Side Bar & Grill
44. Peter's Tex-Mex
45. Alibi
46. The Garage
47. Pentalounge, Penta Hotel
48. American Steak & Eggs
49. Cafe Flatwhite
50. Eudora Station

51. The Filling Station
52. Iron Horse Saloon
53. Twilight
54. The Old Bike Cafe
55. Tiantan Kitchen, New World Hotel
56. Frank's Place
57. Pinotage
58. Jamaica Blue
59. Fuel, Langham Place
60. Domain, East Hotel

61. Park Square
62. The Bookworm
63. New York House
64. Helen's Café

Trace the paths our leaders made through the field of 64 (click graphic or here to open a larger version in a new window):