SAN ANTONIO - The Neighborhood Eats Battle of the Burgers came down to a beefy fight between San Antonio and Alamo Heights. Alamo Heights won by 51 votes.
Burger Culture came on strong, but Broadway 5050 was selected as the most popular burger from a month long online burger bracket poll.
Broadway 5050 is home of the 09'er Eleven with its ghost pepper cheese, jalapenos and topped with a fried egg. Customers can also have a classic cheeseburger called the "Royal" with cheese.
Southtown's Burger Culture is a massive music legend pictorial meets burger joint. Patrons can grab a natural grass-fed 7 oz. beef patty called 'The Natural.' It's also where you can get a bison burger on rye.
Neighborhood Eats went through a list of 64 burger joints and took multiple taste tours to come up with the winners of the Neighborhood Eats Taster's Choice Awards. There are the four categories: Classic (Best classic burger), Classified beef (Best hidden gem burger), Off the chains (Best Chain burger) and Xtreme burger (Best extreme burger).
The recommended entries for best classic burger gave Neighborhood Eats deliciously different reasons to choose the following as restaurants with a solid classic: Burger Boy, the Longhorn Cafe, Fattboys, Chester's and the Texas Hamburger Company.
Where's the best hidden gem burger? The Classified beef winner is Hawx Burger Bar. Love the Norteno!
The best chain burger brought on a true multiple choice test for Neighborhood Eats. For this battle, it's off the chains at Five Guys and Hopdoddy. We have not abandoned the burger that makes you a real Texan: Whataburger.
Juan Trevino's Monster Burgers easily makes the most creative burgers in San Antonio. Yes, they are novelty burgers named after monsters and creatures. They are also pretty tasty. Xtreme beef and taste goes to Everybody Loves Raymonds.
Neighborhood Eats became the winner in Lockart where Grumpy's Burgers created a "Marvin Hurst burger." The bun is branded with a "G." Then, double meat, cheddar cheese, bacon, pico, guac and a slather of jalapeno bacon jam. Delicious!
Papa's Burgers is establishing the "Starvin' Marvin" Challenge. The burger is a combination of his entire burger menu and then some: Eight patties, chili, cheese, onions, Texas toast, jalapenos, bacon, mushrooms, a chili dog with sides of fries and onion rings. A sword sticks through the beefy tower to keep it from falling over. It's three pounds of meat, after all.
The Starvin' Marvin has a cash prize for the winner, but it takes money to make money. The burger, which must be devoured in 20 minutes, is $50. $25 is for the burger. $25 goes into a pot. If no one wins, the pot continues to grow until someone finally finishes off a Starvin' Marvin. Good luck with that!
That's this week's edition of Neighborhood Eats. If you have a suggestion for Marvin, send him an email (Mhurst@kens5.com), tweet @MhurstKENS5) or post it on his Facebook page. #KENS5EATS