Well, the picture says it all! Michael Symon and B Spot take the Amstel Light People’s Choice Award for the 2nd year in a row. This time his “Yo!” Burger with salami, provolone cheese, pickled onion and ShaSha sauce took top honors. Symon also won Heinz “Best Dressed” Burger for his use of condiments.

Best Dressed

Marc Murphy (Landmarc) won the Golden Grill award for his Big Marc Burger (all beef burger on homemade black pepper and cheddar bun with spiked ketchup and housemade pickles). This is the judges’ award and handed out for best use of the Allen Brothers meat they were supplied.

Golden Grill

Last but not least Miami’s Burger and Beer Joint Chef Carlos Barilla won for Best Side Dish with his truffle baked potato salad.

Best Side Dish

It’s hard to describe this event someone who hasn’t attended before. If you’re a burger fanatic then this is a must attend event for you. Even if you come hungry you’ll have a difficult time eating all 25 participants’ burgers and the 3 dessert folks’ sweets. This was the 5th year the event has taken place and all the former winners were here (2007: Shake Shack, 2008: Radius, 2009: Good Stuff Eatery and 2010: B Spot). All of our local burger spots did a great job and I didn’t have a bad burger last night. Check out some pics to get your mouth watering for next year’s event. Til then…

Entrance to Burger Nirvana 2011

Getting the band back together….

Charm City owners Evan and Michael

Charm City’s “Kurobuta” Cowboy

Ai Fiori/Michael White’s The White Label by Pat LaFrieda

B Spot’s Yo! Burger

Good Stuff Eatery’s Coletti Smokehouse

Ingrid Hoffman with her Delicioso Latin Burger

Chef Jonathan Sawyer’s Amstel Light’s Winner’s Contest Burger

The El Mago De Las Frita Familia

El Mago’s Frita with Batido de Mamey

Love Shack’s Wild Love (Elk Burger)

Morimoto’s Nikomi Burger

Chef Michael Schwartz

MGFD’s Genuine Bacon & Egg Cheeseburger

QSine

Radius’ The Schlow Burger

Shake Shack’s Zach Koff

Shake Shack’s Shack Burger

Town’s The “O” Burger

Umami’s Umami (squared)

Village Whisky

Make sure you check out the Menu for SoBe Burger Bash 2011 and Burger Beast’s coverage of the 2009 and 2010 Burger Bash Events.

So I got my hands on the finalized menu for Sobe Burger Bash 2011. There are tons of things I can’t wait to try. The deserts are listed as well on the third page and include my bud, Fireman Derek.

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The tickets for Burger Bash 2011 are sold out but if you still need your burger fix you can still check out the Danny Meyer Shake Shack seminar.

   With the 2011 SoBe Burger Bash right around the corner, the Rachael Ray show is tying up some loose ends and select their representative. The magazine gathered submissions from folks all across the U.S. and the staff then narrowed down the entries to three: Paul Malvone (Boston Burger Company), Tommy Up (PYT Burger/Philadelphia) and Mauricio Oliveros (Frank-N-Burger/Long Island, NY).

   They’re going to compete on the “Rachael Ray” show on January 13, 2011 for a spot on a Burger Bash roster that already includes big wigs like Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, & Michael Symon. Speaking of Michael Symon, he along with editor-in-chief of Every Day with Rachael Ray, Liz Vaccariello will be deciding the winner. Whoever wins will have a chance to bring home one of three (or maybe all three) of the SoBe Burger Bash 2011 Awards: Amstel Light People’s Choice Award, Allen Brothers Golden Grill Award & Heinz Best Dressed Burger. The Burger Bash takes place on February 24, 2011 and I hope to have a full list of the burgers being served soon.