Burger Bash 2011: Our 9 Favorite Burgers From The 2011 New York Wine & Food Festival

We've really become red meat experts this week. On Thursday, we devoured over a dozen meatballs and Friday we managed to eat 20 (20!) different burgers. There is always fierce competition at the New York Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash and this year competitors brought their A game. The judge's prize went to Abe & Arthur's, with Burger & Barrel taking the people's choice (the second win for chef Josh Capon!).

It wasn't an easy task evaluating all the fine meat available, but after much deliberation, HuffPost Food has settled on our top picks. Check out our top 9 Burger Bash burgers below:

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[SteveDenver]

01:47 AM on 10/04/2011

To those who are posting that these look "little," this was a tasting event where one or two bites of each burger allows you to sample many different offerings.

[Max Shaw]

02:29 PM on 10/03/2011

i want those inside of me.

[ConGrpThink]

10:00 AM on 10/03/2011

What is it with this obsession with small burgers. Tall doesn't fool me. Yuppies.

[IrieMoon]

01:55 PM on 10/03/2011

When you go to a food festival things are served in miniature so that people can taste many things. To serve a full version of these things would mean a lot of wasted food.

[SteveDenver]

01:46 AM on 10/04/2011

I admire you for trying to explain festival tastings to these culinary cretins.

[Nora Bahr]

08:47 AM on 10/03/2011

I'm not even a big burger fan and I'm drooling right now. . .

[mtaysic]

03:16 AM on 10/03/2011

half of these look like there is mold growin on them... yuck

[proudem]

01:02 PM on 10/03/2011

There is something wrong with you...seriously, Dude, you have a problem.

[SteveDenver]

01:45 AM on 10/04/2011

mtaysic must be used to fast food burgers

[Paul Medina]

10:49 PM on 10/02/2011

I want.

[sheoples]

06:21 PM on 10/02/2011

mmmmmmmmm heartattack on a platter!

[Carbon Forteetoo]

02:18 PM on 10/02/2011

Mostly those tiny, pretentious burgers that are too tall to put in your mouth.

[IrieMoon]

01:55 PM on 10/03/2011

That is why when you pick it up you squeeze it just a little bit.

[Carbon Forteetoo]

03:34 PM on 10/04/2011

Pick it up? With my hands?!! What am I...some sort of savage?

[Doug Watt]

01:21 PM on 10/02/2011

Excellent choice for #1. The roasted chiles and cheddar are the perfect compliment this burger.

[ludichris212]

11:11 AM on 10/02/2011

I'm digging Bareburger (chain of 5 restaurants in Astoria, Brooklyn and Manhattan). Had a Jalepeno Express burger made with Elk meat on brioche last week. New fans in our family!

[stevchipmunk]

07:58 AM on 10/02/2011

Why? Why show burgers with uncooked meat -- as the BEST?

In July, the CDC announced that E. coli and other food borne diseases cause 48 million people to be sick each year. Eating not completely cooked hamburger is universally condemned by everyone who knows about these things.

So why is HuffPost (who knows also) so cavalier about showing not properly cooked hamburger as among the best? Surely, you don't want your readers to get sick, do you? ... Er, do you?

[SirOgle]

08:27 PM on 10/02/2011

Because it tastes the best! And I'm guessing that most of these restaurants grind their own meat which eliminates the source of most E. coli contamination - the mega meat processing factory.

I will NEVER eat meat well done. It's a sin in my book. And, no, I've never gotten food poisoning. I am a stickler when it comes to freshness, storage, and prep, though.

[KennytheRTiger]

11:49 PM on 10/02/2011

Knock on wood. I used to say the same thing.

[proudem]

01:05 PM on 10/03/2011

Oh grow up!! Grown-ups like their beef rare to med-rare because we buy from reputable growers and know what we are doing...you? Not so much.

[Stephen Thorpe]

05:13 AM on 10/02/2011

Sliders is what they're all shooting for it looks like to me. Too small. Then everyone wants to pile on junk like avacado.
The best burgers have no junk, just good old burger and some fresh raw onion and a slice of tomato. A couple of pickle slices and some of your fav. cheese, lest we not forget the condoments.

[trumbull desi]

12:36 PM on 10/02/2011

I'm partial to a dash of both ketchup and spicy mustard on the masterpiece you described. And it needs to be on a seriously good roll.

[Stephen Thorpe]

02:03 PM on 10/02/2011

You're right, that roll has to be good.

[Doug Watt]

01:23 PM on 10/02/2011

I'm with you, any more than that on a burger and eating it is logistically difficult.

[Stephen Thorpe]

02:00 PM on 10/02/2011

We had been going with bison for a while but the price just went through the roof, more than tripple, now like $10.00 for a one lb. pack. Can't do that.

[burtongrl]

10:31 PM on 10/01/2011

Ew just by looking at that headline just clogs those arteries

[Ahmed Ben Abbad]

06:59 PM on 10/01/2011

In a subconsience reflection ,,,, I was looking for the "buy" button. U can imagine how hungry I am

[Annette Hammond]

06:25 PM on 10/01/2011

Blue cheese is awesome on hamburgers.Also avocados